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Pepper Money and other lenders ordinarily restrict either the type or the number of conveyancing practices on their approved list of lawyers. A common example of such restriction(s) being that a firm must have two or more partners. In addition to restricting the type of firm, some have decided to limit the number of firms they use to represent them. You should note that Pepper Money have no responsibility for the quality of advice provided by any member of Pepper Money Conveyancer Panel. Mortgage fraud was a key driver in the rationalisation of conveyancing panels a few years ago and whilst there are differing views about the extent of solicitor involvement in some of that fraud. Statistics from the Land Registry reveal that thousands of law firms only carry out one or two conveyances a year. Those supporting conveyancing panel cuts ask why law firms should have the right to be on a Lender panel when clearly, Conveyancing is not their speciality? To put it another way; would you want a conveyancing solicitor to represent you if you were charged with a crime; probably not.

A precondition to being on the Pepper Money approved panel is to comply with the CML Handbook requirements (last updated for this lender on Pepper Money) which do require that your lawyer disclose any incorrect assumptions in the lender’s valuation report and the legal papers. Should you refuse to allow your lawyer to make the appropriate notification then your lawyer will have no choice but to discontinue acting for you.

Unfortunately it’s not apparent why you need a Pepper Money panel solicitor but in any event, if you can not find one on our search tool you will need to speak directly to Pepper Money to find out which solicitors in Pepper Money are on their panel. If you do find such a firm not listed please direct them to our site to list. After all the cost is only one £1 a month

The fact that your lawyer is on the Pepper Money conveyancing panel is a help. It would almost certainly delay matters if they were not. However, no conveyancer should guarantee a time-frame for your conveyancing due to third parties outside of our control such as delays caused by lenders,conveyancing search providers or by the other side’s solicitors. The time taken is often determined by the number of parties in a chain

We are not aware of any lender fees to be on their panel although some do charge an administration charge to deal with the processing of the conveyancing panel application.

Unfortunately, as long as it is in their Terms and Conditions or Quote then yes your solicitors can charge a fee for this. This fee is not set by Pepper Money but by your lawyers. Some firms on the Pepper Money will charge an ‘acting for lender’ fee but plenty of firms include it on their overall fee.

Many lenders do operate a restricted conveyancing panel but a lot of lenders allow any solicitors to join their panel so long as they meet their criteria. Each lender sets their own criteria. For example the Pepper Money conveyancing panel requirements are different to Pepper Money’s conveyancing panel criteria.