My partner and I are hoping to acquire a house in Upton Park and are in fact using a Upton Park conveyancing practice. Within the past 48 hours our conveyancer has forwarded the sale agreement to be signed with a detailed report in anticipation of exchanging contracts shortly. Skipton Building Society have this morning contacted us to advise us that there is now an issue as our Upton Park solicitor is not on their conveyancing panel. Please explain?
Where you are buying a property requiring a mortgage it is normal for the purchasers' solicitors to also act for the mortgage company. In order to act for a bank or building society a law firm has to be on that lender's conveyancing panel. An application has to be made by the law firm to the lender to become a member of the lender's panel and there are increasingly strict criteria which the firm has to satisfy and indeed some lenders now require their panel members to be part of the Law Society’s Conveyancing Accreditation Scheme. Your solicitor should contact your bank and see if they can apply for membership of their conveyancing panel, but if that is not viable they will instruct their own lawyers to represent them. You are not legally obliged to appoint a law firm on the bank's conveyancing panel and you may continue to use your own Upton Park solicitors, in which case your legal fees may increase, and it may delay matters as you have another set of people involved.
Will my conveyancing lawyers need to check that the building insurance for my purchase of a house in Upton Park. My lender is Platform
Platform have specific requirements as set out in the UK Finance Lenders’ Handbook. As of 13/1/2026, the requirements read as follows :
I note that there are debates on Chancel Insurance on online forums. Am I compelled to take this when acquiring a house in Upton Park? or I am told that there is an ancient law that could mean that owners of property living in a parish church boundary may be liable to pay for maintenance towards the chancel in proximity to the church. Is this suitable for conveyancing in Upton Park?
Unless a prior acquisition of the house completed post 12 October 2013 you may take it that lawyers conducting conveyancing in Upton Park to remain encouraging a chancel search and or chancel repair liability insurance.
I opted to have a survey done on a house in Upton Park ahead of appointing solicitors. I have been told that there is a flying freehold aspect to the house. My surveyor has said that some banks tend not issue a mortgage on such a house.
It varies from the lender to lender. Lloyds has different instructions for example to Halifax. If you contact us we can investigate further via the relevant lender. If you lender is happy to lend one our lawyers can assist as they are accustomed to dealing with flying freeholds in Upton Park. Conveyancing can be more complicated and therefore you should check with your conveyancing solicitor in Upton Park to see if the conveyancing costs will increase in light of this.
Is it possible to transfer to a new conveyancer as I have to find one who is on the Yorkshire Building Society conveyancing panel. I had appointed a local conveyancing solicitor in Upton Park round the corner but she is not accepted by Yorkshire Building Society
It would be our pleasure to assist you find a conveyancing solicitor in Upton Park on the Yorkshire Building Society panel. Please note that the property lawyers that we work with do not pay us fee if you instruct them and are fully regulated by the SRA who regulate all conveyancing solicitors in Upton Park. In making use of the find a conveyancing solicitor tool on this website, you can compare and instruct different solicitors and conveyancers both nationally and in Upton Park.
As co-executor for the will of my grandfather I am selling a property in Neath but live in Upton Park. My conveyancer (based 235 kilometers awayneeds me to execute a stat dec prior to the transaction finalising. Can you recommend a conveyancing lawyer in Upton Park to witness and place their company stamp on the document?
Technically speaking you are not likely to be required to have the documents attested by a conveyancing solicitor. Normally any notary public or qualified solicitor will be fine regardless of whether they are located in Upton Park