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Teachers Building Society Conveyancing Panel Assistance:
What are the Teachers Building Society conveyancing panel arrangements?
Unlike the CML the Building Society Mortgage Instructions deal with this. Section A.12 states ‘In order to act on our behalf your firm or company must be a member of our conveyancing panel provided we are a society that operates one – see specific requirements for details of our arrangements.
The Special Requirements state:
We do not operate a conveyancing panel
You must also comply with the terms and conditions of your Teachers Building Society solicitor panel appointment.
Are Teachers Building Society Conveyancing panel solicitors exposed to the possibility of the society amending or withdrawing the loan offer?
Teachers Building Society addresses this at section B.3 of their BSA Mortgage Instructions which states:
Any such arrangement may lead to the mortgage offer being withdrawn or amended if it could reduce the value of our security or is inconsistent with the basis on which the mortgage offer was made.
Given my firm’s membership on the Teachers Building Society conveyancing panel how long am I expected to archive the original conveyancing file?
The BSA Mortgage Instructions state that the firm must keep the file for at least 6 years from the date of the mortgage. Data imaging is normally suitable
compliance with this requirement. As a firm on the Teachers Building Society conveyancing panel you must allow Teachers Building Society to conduct such reasonable audit of your
information security measures as Teachers Building Society or their
agents may to ensure your compliance with your file retention
obligations.
Are there conditions,outside the BSA Mortgage Instructions, that a firm should be aware of when on the Teachers Building Society conveyancing panel?
In order to be on the Teachers Building Society conveyancing panel solicitors have to complete an application form and agree Terms and Conditions. A sample of 5 conditions that we see amongst many lenders Terms (but not necessarily Teachers Building Society) are as follows:
- To notify us in writing of any change in your details as held on our records for example, change of address, telephone number, document exchange number email address. Notification must be given to us at least 10 days before the change will be effective.
- To be responsible for the reconstitution of the title deeds (whether the title is registered or unregistered, at your own cost), where any deeds in your possession, or were last known to be in your possession, go missing.
- You have the consent of all borrowers to apply for the deeds, before making any request for deeds. We will accept your request for deeds on the understanding that you have obtained such consent. If this is not the case then you should advise our Deeds Services Department in writing when you make your request
- To forward the title deeds and documents to another conveyancer within 24 hours of an instruction from us requiring you to do so. On forwarding the deeds as instructed you will confirm to us that you have done so. Upon receipt of your confirmation, we will release you from all undertakings relating to your holding the title deeds.
- To carry out our instructions with reasonable care and skill, ensuring that all employees carrying out mortgage work on our behalf are qualified and competent to do so
My practice have never been on the Teachers Building Society conveyancing panel among other banks . My clients, who are getting a mortgage with Teachers Building Society wish use my firms conveyancing services regardless of the fact that we are not on the Teachers Building Society panel. Am I doing anything wrong is suggesting to my client that they use a local to act for Teachers Building Society on mortgage aspect of the conveyancing?
Please tread carefully here as what you are proposing may not be acceptable to the lender.
It is possible that you (as a non-panel firm) or the mortgage applicant are not at liberty instruct a panel firm of your choice. An increasing amount of lenders are making it clear to their panel firms that where a non-panel member firm is instructed by one of their mortgage applicants, the lender must appoint a panel firm to carry out its instructions and to liaise with the borrower's conveyancer.
You also need to make the costs implications and potential for delay very clear to your client.
I recently attended a seminar arranged via my PI broker where it was mentioned that solicitors are being sued for non-compliance with BSA Mortgage Instructions. I am on the Teachers Building Society conveyancing panel. Can you tell me how many Specific Requirement changes took place by Teachers Building Society during 2013?
During this period 3 sections of the BSA Mortgage Instructions were changed by Teachers Building Society. Some changes are more important than others but as a firm on the Teachers Building Society conveyancing panel you are of course obliged to comply with individual lender requirements. Locktons have recently pointed out in an article that non-compliance with lender requirements account for a number of high value claims, and it is therefore important to be aware of any particularly onerous terms that an individual lender may impose.
Remember: BSA requirements are not guidelines; they are the lender client’s instructions.
The Council of Mortgage Lenders Handbook includes instructions for a property with a solar panel. Teachers Building Society do not seem to have any similar obligations via the BSA Mortgage Instructions. Is this right?
The BSA Mortgage Instructions don't
specifically deal with Solar Panels but it would be prudent as
approved solicitors for Teachers Building Society to raise the issue
with them (as you would if the UK Finance Lenders’ Handbook applied). In any event you
need to raise the appropriate questions for your buyer client.
What lender panels do you receive the most questions about?
BSA lenders do not come within the top 20 lenders in terms of
frequency of questions. The most popular lender panels in terms of
questions are as follows:
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Average number of days to register title including a charge in favour of Teachers Building Society
This information relates to purchase only and not remortgages.
| Year | Days* |
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| 2025 | [no data] |
| 2024 | [no data] |
| 2023 | [no data] |
| 2022 | [no data] |
| 2021 | [no data] |
| 2020 | [no data] |
* Data aggregated from sources including COMPLETIONmonitor
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