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FAQs for the Yorkshire Building Society Conveyancing Panel
Much to my surprise I have been told by my estate agent that my the law firm I have appointed is not on the Yorkshire Building Society Conveyancing panel. What can I do to check?
The best course of action for you to take is to contact your conveyancer. You lawyer should advise you of the situation. If they are not on the panel they could put your in touch with solicitors on the the approved Yorkshire Building Society solicitor panel.
My lawyer has identified a discrepancy between the assumptions in Yorkshire Building Society’s home valuation survey and what is in the conveyancing documents. My lawyer says that as he is on the Yorkshire Building Society conveyancing panel he must check that the lender is with this discrepancy and is content go ahead. Is my lawyer’s course or action appropriate?
A precondition to being on the Yorkshire Building Society approved panel is to comply with the CML Handbook requirements (last updated for this lender on Yorkshire Building Society) 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.
I see that you have a search directory identifying firms on the Yorkshire Building Society conveyancing panel. Do firms pay you a referral fee if I retain them for my own house purchase?
We are a listing service only for law firms wishing to communicate if they are on the Yorkshire Building Society conveyancing panel or other lender panels. We do not charge referral fees to the any conveyancer that you subsequently appoint.
My conveyancers in Leeds have advised me that they can not locate my conveyancing file. At the time of my purchase I took out a mortgage with Yorkshire Building Society. Is it case that being on the Yorkshire Building Society conveyancing panel they need to have retained the file for a prescribed period?
Different lenders have different requirements but many of the Terms and Conditions of Conveyancing Panel Appointment require the file to be held for a period of 6 years. That being said we have not seen a copy of the Yorkshire Building Society Conveyancing Panel Terms. It might be worth you contacting Yorkshire Building Society directly.
I have today made my last payment due on mortgage with Yorkshire Building Society. I assume I don't need a solicitor on the Yorkshire Building Society panel to remove the mortgage at the Land Registry. Please confirm
If you have finished paying off your Yorkshire Building Society mortgage they may send you evidence showing that you have paid it off. Alternatively they may notify the Land Registry directly. The Land Registry need to see this evidence before they will remove the Yorkshire Building Society mortgage from the register. Yorkshire Building Society,and any evidence they send you, will determine the action you need to take. In cases where no conveyancer is acting for you and you have paid off your mortgage:
but are not moving to another property
where the Yorkshire Building Society has sent the Land Registry the discharge electronically, and
the Yorkshire Building Society has instructed the Land Registry to do so
The Land Registry will send you a letter confirming that your Yorkshire Building Society mortgage has been paid off.
My ex -wife’s name is on the Yorkshire Building Society mortgage of my property but not on the land registry. The apartment was transferred to me on our divorce many years ago by way of a sealed court order. Does my ex still have a say on the sale even though the land registry showing the property in my name alone? Will I be required to take her name of the Yorkshire Building Society mortgage in order to sell?
As regards the Yorkshire Building Society mortgage, it is unusual that your ex-wife’s name remains on the mortgage but not on the title. It is conceivable that this is an oversight on the part of your conveyancers to ensure that her name was removed or even an administrative error on the part of Yorkshire Building Society in failing to update their data. In any event, it should cause difficulty providing her name no longer appears on the Land Registry title and you have a court order ordering that the property is transferred to you.
We are are acquiring a garden flat in Hendon. Conveyancing solicitors in Hendon are preferred to beinstructed. My friendsuggested that we double-check that the conveyancing practitioner in Hendon is on the Yorkshire Building Society approved list of lawyers. Surely I don't need to do this, do I?
A limited percentage of Hendon conveyancing solicitors are on the Yorkshire Building Society conveyancing panel. 7 people a month use our search tool to locate a Hendon conveyancing lawyer on the on the Yorkshire Building Society solicitors pane.