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The Chorley & District Building Society Conveyancing Panel : Questions and Answers
I am expecting a mortgage with The Chorley & District Building Society. I intend to instruct a Licensed Conveyancer. Does the The Chorley & District Building Society Solicitor panel allow for Licensed Conveyancers
The Chorley & District Building Society’s approved solicitor list is, like many other lenders represented by the CML or Building Society Association, open to Licensed Conveyancers regulated by the CLC.
My wife and I are refinancing our flat with The Chorley & District Building Society. We have a son 18 who lives with us. The solicitor on the The Chorley & District Building Society conveyancing panel requested us to identify any adults other than ourselves who reside at the property. The solicitor has now sent a form for our son to sign, giving up any rights in the event that the apartment is repossessed. I have two questions (1) Is this form unique to the The Chorley & District Building Society conveyancing panel as he never had to sign this form when we bought 4 years ago (2) In signing this form is our son in any way compromising his right to inherit the property?
On the face of it your lawyer has done nothing wrong as it is established procedure for any occupier who is aged 17 or over to sign the necessary Consent Form, which is purely to state that any rights he has in the property are postponed and secondary to The Chorley & District Building Society .This is solely used to protect the The Chorley & District Building Society if the property were re-possessed so that in such circumstances, your son would be legally obliged to leave.
It does not impact your son’s right to inherit the apartment. Please note that if your son were to inherit and the mortgage in favour of The Chorley & District Building Society had not been discharged, he would be liable to take over the loan or pay it off, but other than that, there is nothing stopping him from keeping the property in accordance with your will or the rules of intestacy.
I see that you have a post code search directory listing law firms on the The Chorley & District Building Society conveyancing panel. Do firms pay you a commission if I instruct them for my own house purchase?
We are a listing service only for law firms wishing to communicate if they are on the The Chorley & District Building Society conveyancing panel or other lender panels. We do not charge referral fees to the any conveyancer that you subsequently appoint.
The lawyers that I appointed last week on my house acquisition in Brighton has suddenly closed. I chose them because I needed a lawyer on the The Chorley & District Building Society conveyancing panel and my previous lawyer was not. I gave them a cheque for £150 in advance. What are my options?
If you have an estate agent involved then let them know immediately so that they advise the vendors that there may be a slight delay due to reasons beyond your control. Hopefully they will be sympathetic and urge their lawyer to send a new set of papers to your new solicitors. You should appoint new lawyers that are on the The Chorley & District 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 solicitors should be in a position to help
Last month we had a mortgage agreed in principle with The Chorley & District Building Society. Solicitors have been instructed? How long does it take for The Chorley & District Building Society to send the offer to our conveyancer
Some lenders take longer than others. Have The Chorley & District Building Society completed the survey? Have you advised The Chorley & District Building Society as your lawyers details and checked that your lawyer is on the The Chorley & District Building Society conveyancing panel? sometimes it can take as long as six weeks for a mortgage offer to be issued
We have agreed to purchase a house.One unusual aspect is that the roof has a solar panel. Solicitors conducting should look into this right? Will my lender The Chorley & District Building Society be concerned
Given that you are obtaining a mortgage with The Chorley & District Building Society your lawyer must to check the The Chorley & District Building Society conveyancing instructions contained in the Part of CML Handbook for The Chorley & District Building Society . The CML Handbook contains minimum requirements for solar panel roof-space leases, and solicitors are required to report to The Chorley & District Building Society where a lease does not meet these requirements. The requirements relate to the installation of panels on properties in England and Wales. The CML are developing guidance for Northern Ireland and Scotland.
After much negotiation I have agreed a price on a house. My mortgage broker pressured me to appoint their lawyers I paid an upfront payment of 150. Soon after the conveyancers contacted me to say that they were not on the The Chorley & District Building Society conveyancing panel. Am I right in thinking that I should be due a refund?
You should be able to recover this from the law firm if they were not on the The Chorley & District Building Society panel. They should have asked at the outset which lender you were obtaining a mortgage with. An important lesson to readers of this site is to check that the lawyers are on the appropriate lender panel.