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Q and A’s regarding the Mansfield Building Society Solicitor Panel
My financial adviser has has requested my solicitor’s panel reference for the Mansfield Building Society conveyancing panel. What is the best way to obtain this. I have tried my local Mansfield Building Society branch but they have not responded to me.
You are best placed to get this information from your conveyancing lawyer. They should have a central record lender panel numbers including the Mansfield Building Society panel reference.
My conveyancer has spotted a discrepancy between the information in Mansfield Building Society’s home valuation report and what is in the title deeds. My lawyer says that as he is on the Mansfield Building Society conveyancing panel he is duty bound to check that the lender is OK with this discrepancy and is content go ahead. Is my solicitor’s course or action appropriate?
A precondition to being on the Mansfield Building Society approved panel is to comply with the CML Handbook requirements (last updated for this lender on Mansfield Building Society) which do require that your lawyer disclose any incorrect assumptions in the lender’s valuation report and the legal papers. Should you refuse to allow your lawyer to make the appropriate notification then your lawyer will have no choice but to discontinue acting for you.
How do I find a local solicitor on the Mansfield Building Society conveyancing panel? I have a car and am prepared to travel up to 20 miles to meet the lawyer.
Feel free to make use of the find a conveyancing panel tool on this website. Please choose the lender and your location and you will see a number of lawyer located nearest you. Alternatively you can type in the name of your proposed law firm and see if they are listed as being on the Mansfield Building Society solicitor panel.
The lawyers that I appointed last week on my house acquisition in Brighton has suddenly shut down. I only went with them because I had to have a solicitor on the Mansfield Building Society conveyancing panel and my family lawyer was not. I gave them a cheque for £150 in advance. What do I do now?
If you have an estate agent involved then inform them immediately so that they advise the vendors that there may be a slight delay due to reasons beyond your control. Most sellers would be sympathetic and urge their lawyer to send a new set of papers to your new solicitors. You will need to appoint new lawyers that are on the Mansfield Building Society conveyancing panel and notify the lender. If you have paid over any money it will hopefully be held by the SRA as money in an intervened firm's bank accounts is transferred to the SRA. Then, the SRA or the intervention agent looks at the intervened firm's accounts to work out who the money belongs to. To claim your money you will need to contact the SRA. If the SRA cannot return money you are owed from the firm's bank accounts, or if they can only return part of the money, you can apply to the Compensation Fund for a grant. Your new lawyers should be in a position to assist
I am due to exchange contracts on my house. I had a double glazing fitted in month 2010 but did not receive a FENSA certificate or Building Regulation Certificate. My buyer's lender, Mansfield Building Society are being a right pain. The solicitor who is on the Mansfield Building Society conveyancing panel is recommending indemnity insurance as a solution but Mansfield Building Society are requiring a building regulation certificate. Why do Mansfield Building Society have a conveyancing panel of they don’t accept advice from them?
It is probably the case that Mansfield Building Society have referred the matter to their valuer. The reason why Mansfield Building Society may not want to accept indemnity insurance is because it does not give them any reassurance that the double glazing correctly and safely installed. It merely protects against enforcement action which is very unlikely anyway.
My ex -wife’s name is on the Mansfield Building Society mortgage of my property but not on the land registry. The apartment was transferred to me on our divorce many years ago by way of a sealed court order. Does my ex still have a say on the sale even though the land registry showing the property in my name alone? Will I be required to take her name of the Mansfield Building Society mortgage in order to sell?
As regards the Mansfield Building Society mortgage, it is unusual that your ex-wife’s name remains on the mortgage but not on the title. It is conceivable that this is an oversight on the part of your conveyancers to ensure that her name was removed or even an administrative error on the part of Mansfield Building Society in failing to update their data. In any event, it should cause difficulty providing her name no longer appears on the Land Registry title and you have a court order ordering that the property is transferred to you.
Me and my partner are purchasing a garden flat in Hendon. Conveyancing solicitors in Hendon will soon begiven the go-ahead. My brokeradvised that we double-check that the conveyancing practitioner in Hendon is on the Mansfield Building Society solicitors panel. Is this really necessary?
Not all Hendon conveyancing solicitors are on the Mansfield Building Society conveyancing panel. 7 people a month use our search tool to search for a Hendon conveyancing firm on the on the Mansfield Building Society list of approved conveyancing firms.