The Chorley & District Building Society Conveyancing Panel Information

The information on this page is designed to keep solicitors and licensed conveyancers abreast of latest requirements changes by The Chorley & District Building Society and to assist in remaining on the The Chorley & District Building Society Solicitor Panel.

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What are the The Chorley & District Building Society conveyancing panel criteria?

Unlike the UK Finance 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:

No set panel but any firm wanting to act for CDBS must meet the specific requirements set out below.

Specific Requirements

1. Law Society or CLC member

2. Minimum of 2 partners or directors

You must also comply with the terms and conditions of your The Chorley & District Building Society solicitor panel appointment.

Are The Chorley & District Building Society Conveyancing panel solicitors at risk of the society amending or withdrawing the mortgage?

The Chorley & District Building Society addresses this at section B.3 of their BSA Mortgage Instructions which states:

Any incentive, or third party involvement, of which we were previously unaware. Any material change in borrower’s circumstance between offer and completion

As a firm on the The Chorley & District Building Society solicitor panel who do I call if I have a query about the instructions ?

If you are a conveyancer and have a question about the Specific Requirements, you should make contact with The Chorley & District Building Society. The BSA will not advise or comment on specific queries relating to The Chorley & District Building Society or other lenders.

An established client of mine is buying a new build house for £825k in Brighton with a mortgage over GBP 440,000. I am on the The Chorley & District Building Society conveyancing panel but do The Chorley & District Building Society have a separate approved panel when a mortgage is above 350k?

Lexsure only know of two or three banks that operate a separate approved solicitors panel where the mortgage advance is over a certain amount. You should nevertheless check directly with The Chorley & District Building Society. At one stage HSBC would only allow Sole practitioners to act for them where the mortgage was below £150,000. We are not sure if HSBC still operate such a condition. In your case it is best to check with The Chorley & District Building Society

Are there conditions, outside the BSA Mortgage Instructions, that a firm should be aware of when on the The Chorley & District Building Society conveyancing panel?

In order to be on the The Chorley & District 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 The Chorley & District Building Society) are as follows:

To quote on all communications with us relating to registration issues, whether by telephone or in writing, the panel number that we provide for each practising address and the mortgage account or application number for the mortgage concerned.
If you are a sole practitioner, to arrange for appropriate locum cover from our panel where necessary. Your locum must be a member of the Conveyancing panel.
To keep us informed of the reasons for any delay in your being able to send the title deeds and documents we require to us within 3 months of completion or evidence of proof of registration within that period. (We will send reminders if the deeds have not been received but will not acknowledge receipt of 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
That any deeds you borrow from us in connection with the personal mortgage of a partner or director at your firm must be requested by a partner or director other than the partner or director concerned and the transaction must be handled by that other partner or director. If you are a sole practitioner and require the loan of deeds in connection with your own mortgage, you must nominate a different firm on our panel to request the deeds and handle the transaction.

What type of firms do building societies accept on their approved solicitor panel?

In the same way that there is a unique The Chorley & District Building Society conveyancing panel most building societies, operate a conveyancing panel for solicitors and other conveyancers that the lender will instruct. Terms and Conditions and criteria for inclusion on a building society conveyancing panel vary from lender-to-lender. Having CQS accreditation may be a requirement.

Institutional lenders, such as a building society, is a client and is entitled to instruct the solicitor or conveyancer of its choosing (who, in turn, is free to accept or refuse instructions). Therefore, if lender and borrower cannot agree which solicitor or conveyancer should represent them jointly, they would usually proceed on a separate representation basis.

Will Conveyancing Quality Scheme acceptance guarantee my firm’s acceptance on to building society conveyancing panels?

CQS membership is no guarantee to lender panel acceptance. Nevertheless the Council of Mortgage Lenders have indicated that it is likely to become a prerequisite for firms wishing to remain on their approved list of conveyancing solicitors. Some mortgage companies now use the scheme as the starting point for Panel membership as is the case Astra Mortgages .

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 The Chorley & District Building Society

This information relates to purchase only and not remortgages.

Year	Days*
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2021	[no data]

* Data aggregated from sources including COMPLETIONmonitor

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