Landbay Partners Conveyancing Panel Information

The information on this page is designed to keep solicitors and licensed conveyancers abreast of latest requirements changes by Landbay Partners and to assist in remaining on the Landbay Partners Conveyancing Panel.

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Landbay Partners Conveyancing Panel: Recently Asked Questions

I am on the Landbay Partners conveyancing panel. Can I get an archived copy of a Landbay Partners Part 2 from the CML?

The Council of Mortgage Lenders do not maintain duplicates of P2 requirements Pre January 2011. The CML recommend you make a request of Landbay Partners directly.

I am hearing that agents are using online checkers to see if a firm is on a lender panel. Why?

The fact of the matter is that estate agents are suffering if their clients start out on the conveyancing process having appointed a conveyancer who is not on the panel with the purchaser’s chosen lender. Many conveyancing firms are only discovering when they begin working on a case that they are no longer able to work with that lender. Given the inevitable resultant delays in the transaction the chances of an abortive deal increases dramatically. in the circumstances there is understandable anguish on the part of the estate agent as a result of the lost time should the client have to change lawyers.

I understand that Landbay Partners could request or audit my files as I am on the Landbay Partners conveyancing panel. What do I do if I receive such a request?

We can't comment specifically on Landbay Partners. Many major lenders are now introducing ‘file auditing’ as standard practice in relation to completed matters. This raises questions of confidentiality in relation to the buyer client and the purpose to which the results of such audits will be put. The starting point is to remember that the file does not belong to your firm, it belongs to the ‘client’. But, of course, we will normally have two clients – the buyer and the lender - and you will owe a duty of confidentiality to each. So basically, you have to separate the file and just send the lender the parts solely relating to themselves. But, of course, as this will basically be correspondence with the lender, mortgage instructions etc.

Check with your COLP but a firm should not send the complete conveyancing file without the buyer client’s express consent – and if she is in arrears with the lender she is hardly likely to agree. However, if the lender can establish a prima facie case of fraud, then you may be under an obligation to disclose the whole file.

The emerging convention is that lenders are including an authority to disclose in loan application forms to counter this problem. Mortgage Express v Sawali, [2010] EWHC 3054 (Ch) indicates that such provisions are valid. Please click here for more information about that case.

My post-completion clerk has left my firm unexpectedly. I urgently need to prioritise making sure that charges are registered. That said, how quickly do I need to send deeds to Landbay Partners once the charge is registered before my firm runs the risk of being suspended off the conveyancing panel for Landbay Partners?

Landbay Partners will likely expect the deeds to be sent to them within 10 days of you receiving the TID (unless their specific P2 requirements specifically state that they you are not to send them anything). Most COTs refer to complying with the Certificate of Title referred to in IB (3.7) of the SRA Code of Conduct 2011, published by the Law Society which states that you ‘will despatch to you such deeds and documents relating to the Property as you require with a list of them in the form prescribed by you within ten working days of receipt by us of the title information document from the Land Registry’ As to whether the lender will suspend your panel status this very much varies according to the lender’s own internal policies The more cases you have the more risk you face. Some lenders may take action if there records show that the deeds are outstanding for more than 3 matters. The fact is that if you keep within the time frame then you will have more chance of remaining on the Landbay Partners conveyancing panel.

Marsh’s PII renewal form enquires if my firm had been excluded from any lender panels in the last year. I recently discovered that the firm is no longer on the Landbay Partners conveyancing panel? Will that effect my PII cover?

The best placed professionals to answer this question are your insurance brokers. The chances are that on the basis that you have not been removed for fraud or negligence reasons that there will be little or no impact. The main reason why a firm would be removed off of a lender panel is due to low volume of conveyancing cases although there may be a number of criteria for Landbay Partners solicitor panel membership. Please remember that it is always important that you complete your insurance forms accurately.

My firm is listed on the Landbay Partners conveyancing panel and scheduled to complete a remortgage within the next few weeks. I can not locate a Mortgage Deed for the client to execute. Who do I contact at Landbay Partners to request substitute deeds?

You need to contact Landbay Partners to obtain standard documents. The The Council of Mortgage Lenders Handbook includes an explicit inquiry for banks to establish who to contact to obtain standard documents. Landbay Partners in their Part 2’s state:

You will need to quote the firm’s Landbay Partners conveyancing panel number.

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Average number of days to register title including a charge in favour of Landbay Partners

This information relates to purchase only and not remortgages.

Year	Days*
2026	[no data]
2025	[no data]
2024	[no data]
2023	[no data]
2022	[no data]
2021	[no data]

* Data aggregated from sources including COMPLETIONmonitor

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