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Newbury Mortgage Services Conveyancing Panel : Questions and Answers
I am expecting a mortgage offer from Newbury Mortgage Services. my intention is to employ the services of a Licensed Conveyancer. Does the Newbury Mortgage Services Conveyancing panel exclude Licensed Conveyancers
Newbury Mortgage Services’s conveyancing panel is, like many other lenders associated to the Council or Mortgage Lenders or Building Society Association, open to Licensed Conveyancers regulated by the CLC.
Our solicitor is asking me for proof of ID documents stating that this is part of his legal duty as a conveyancer on the Newbury Mortgage Services Solicitor panel. Can you confirm whether this is the case?
Due to Money Laundering Regulations your conveyancing lawyer is duty bound to confirm positively your identification when entering into a business relationship with you. It is a criminal offense if your lawyer not do this. If you do not provide ID early in the transaction the solicitor must refuse to act for you. It’s unlikely a lawyer will turn you away if you come to the first meeting without relevant ID but you will have to produce it at some point so you might as well bring it with you to the initial meeting so the lawyer can tick the ID verification box and start sorting out the conveyancing straight away. If you are getting a mortgage with Newbury Mortgage Services your lawyer also has to check ID documents to satisfy Newbury Mortgage Services
I am planning to acquire a house and require a conveyancing solicitor in Birmingham who is on the Newbury Mortgage Services approved. Can you recommend a local solicitor?
Our service is a directory service for firms who wish to be listed as being on the approved conveyancing panel for Newbury Mortgage Services . We don’t recommend any particular firm.
My aunt passed away last year and as sole heir and executor was left the property. The house had a relatively small loan remaining of approximately £8000. I want to have the title changed into my name whilst I re-mortgage to Newbury Mortgage Services , pay off the mortgage etc. Is this allowed?
If you intend to re-mortgage then Newbury Mortgage Services will insist on your using a conveyancer on the Newbury Mortgage Services conveyancing panel. Here is link to the Land Registry online guidance around what to do when a property owner dies. This will help you to understand the registration process behind changing the details re the registered title. in your case it would appear that you are effectively purchasing the property from the estate. Your Newbury Mortgage Services conveyancing panel solicitor pays the new mortgage money into the estate, the estate pays off the old mortgage, the charge is released and you become the owner and the Newbury Mortgage Services mortgage is registered as a charge at the Land Registry.
I have a mortgage with Newbury Mortgage Services. Conveyancing has been completed months ago. Should I wish to rent out the flat and do not currently have a buy-to-let mortgage do I need to remortgage to a buy-to-let mortgage or inform Newbury Mortgage Services?
You must advise Newbury Mortgage Services in advance of renting your property as this is likely to be a breach of Newbury Mortgage Services’s mortgage conditions. In many cases banks or building societies will allow you to rent out your former home without needing to switch to a buy-to-let mortgage but some lenders will add a surcharge to your mortgage rate to reflect the higher risk. You should contact Newbury Mortgage Services directly. It should not be necessary to do this via a Newbury Mortgage Services conveyancing panel firm.
Newbury Mortgage Services have agreed my mortgage in principle, my offer on house has been accepted, now what?
The estate agent will want to know who your solicitors are (make sure these solicitors are on the lenders panel). Call up Newbury Mortgage Services or your broker and complete any relevant paperwork. Newbury Mortgage Services will tell you what documents they want. Newbury Mortgage Services will instruct a valuer. The valuer will get in touch with the estate agent or seller to book an appointment. Once conducted (assuming no problems) it takes about week to get a mortgage offer. Newbury Mortgage Services will issue the offer to you and your lawyer. The transaction will then take it’s course according the nature and complexity of the conveyancing.
My offer on house has been accepted, but there is a chain. The vendors have offered on somewhere, but not been accepted yet, and have viewings of other properties booked. My conveyancing solicitor has been instructed. What should be my next step? When should I get the mortgage app going with Newbury Mortgage Services?
It is usual to have concerns where there is a chain as you are unlikely to want to be too out of pocket too early (mortgage application is approx £1k, then survey/valuation, conveyancing search costs, etc). First you should check that your solicitor is on the Newbury Mortgage Services conveyancing panel. As to the next stages this very much depends on the circumstances of your case, desire for this property and on the state of the market. In a hot mortgage some buyers would pally for the mortgage with Newbury Mortgage Services and pay for the valuation and only if it comes back ok would they pay their solicitor to press on with searches.