I am hoping to receive a offer of a home loan from Lloyds. My intention is to retain the legal services of a Licensed Conveyancer in Burbage. Does the Lloyds Conveyancing panel allow for Licensed Conveyancers?

The Lloyds approved solicitor list is, like many other lenders, associated to the Council or Mortgage Lenders or Building Society Association, open to Licensed Conveyancers regulated by the Council of Licensed Conveyancers.

We wanted to use a conveyancing solicitor in Burbage for our house purchase. Our financial adviser informed us that our mortgage company Accord Mortgages Ltd won't deal with them. Why is this not regarded as unduly restrictive?

Before the recession most mortgage companies had a different appetite for risk. Almost all Burbage conveyancing firms would have been on most bank panels. The FSA in 2010 completed a thematic review into mortgage fraud which come to the conclusion: know the conveyancing solicitors dealt with. Consequently, lenders have regularly sought more data from law firms concerning their operations and their employees and set certain criteria such a completing on a minimum amount of transactions. Many Burbage conveyancing firms that have been excluded from lender panels have a 100% healthy track record, no complaints and no claims and didn't just 'dabble' in conveyancing. Burbage is one of the hundreds of locations where the solicitors showing on our search results are on the panel for Accord Mortgages Ltd.

Hoping to buy a property located in Burbage and I am already nervous. I couldn't find anything specific about Burbage. Conveyancing will be needed in due course but do you know about the Burbage area? or perhaps some other tips you can share?

Rather than looking online forget looking online you should go and have a look at Burbage. In the meantime here are some basic statistics that we found

I am thinking of appointing a conveyancing practitioner in Burbage for my purchase. Is it possible to see a solicitor's complaints history with the profession’s regulator?

One may read documented Solicitor Regulator Association (SRA) determinations stemming from investigations from 2008 onwards. Visit Check a solicitor's record. For details Pre 2008, or to check a firm's history, phone 0870 606 2555, 08.00 - 18.00 Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and 09.30 - 18.00 Tuesday. International callers, call +44 (0)121 329 6800. The regulator could recorded call for training reasons.

Can you confirm the variety of conveyancing provided by Burbage conveyancing practices?

For the most part Burbage conveyancing solicitors tend to handle various services to domestic and agricultural land proprietors, vendors, first time buyers, landlords and leaseholders which may include:

House sale conveyancing in Burbage and elsewhere in the country Domestic purchase conveyancing in Burbage and throughout England and Wales Property issues arising from relationship breakdown. Assisting leaseholder clients purchase the freehold reversion (enfranchisement) or extend their leases and landlord clients to assist with enfranchisement claims Declarations of Trust for family and other joint ownership All types of leasehold property including, flats and maisonettes