LendInvest Conveyancing Panel Information

The information on this page is designed to keep solicitors and licensed conveyancers abreast of latest requirements changes by LendInvest and to assist in remaining on the LendInvest Conveyancing Panel.

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LendInvest Solicitor Panel: Recently Asked Questions

Can you suggest any advice if we wish to appeal being removed from the LendInvest conveyancing panel?

If you are removed from the LendInvest conveyancing panel and you are unaware of or disagree with the reasons for your removal you should: (a) Contact LendInvest directly. (b) If there is an appeals process detailed on your letter you should follow the process.

In appealing a decision by LendInvest, it may be useful to provide the following information:

Comprehensive disclosure of your firm’s conveyancing history
A copy of your COMPLETIONmonitor reports if you use that service
Your recent claims history
comprehensive details of all employees in your practice and their role.
Note down if a solicitor has been admitted to the role on completion of the Qualified Lawyers Transfer Test.
Forward duplicate practising certificates, the firm's current professional indemnity policy and the firm’s accountant's certificate, setting out the percentage of the firm's gross fee income is resulting from residential conveyancing

On appeal some solicitors have been able to regain membership to panels notwithstanding the policy by the respective lenders to refuse panel membership to firms with certain profiles or characteristics. Such an achievement is primarily due to the firms’ ability to persuade the lender to make an exception if there is sufficient evidence to reassure them that the firm is well risk-managed.

What sort of information are Lenders such as LendInvest are asking for when it comes to applying to be on their approved solicitor list?

Each lender has different criteria. We do not hold specific requirements relating to the questions raised as part of the application to be on the LendInvest conveyancing panel. Typically lenders need to have full knowledge of a firm including (but not limited to):

SRA or equivalent regulator registration number where applicable

Full complaints history for each licensed conveyancer

Full complaints history for each conveyancing solicitor

Structure of firm and, where applicable, its group

Whether the firm has ever applied for accreditation and the outcome of the application

Charge registration history

top-up split and history of any refusals

Full career history for each licensed conveyancer including registration date with Council of Licensed Conveyancers

and Conveyancing Quality Scheme

purchase and remortgage)

Are there conditions,outside the CML Part 2 requirements, that a firm should be aware of when on the LendInvest conveyancing panel?

In order to be on the LendInvest conveyancing panel solicitors have to complete an application form and agree Terms and Conditions. A sample of 5 conditions that we see amongst many lenders Terms (but not necessarily LendInvest) are as follows:

To quote on all communications with us relating to deeds/registration issues, whether by telephone or in writing, the panel number that we provide for each practising address and the mortgage account or application number for the mortgage concerned.
That any deeds you borrow from us in connection with the personal mortgage of a partner or director at your firm must be requested by a partner or director other than the partner or director concerned and the transaction must be handled by that other partner or director. If you are a sole practitioner and require the loan of deeds in connection with your own mortgage, you must nominate a different firm on our panel to request the deeds and handle the transaction.
You have the consent of all borrowers to apply for the deeds, before making any request for deeds. We will accept your request for deeds on the understanding that you have obtained such consent. If this is not the case then you should advise our Deeds Services Department in writing when you make your request
To keep us informed of the reasons for any delay in your being able to send the title deeds and documents we require to us within 3 months of completion or evidence of proof of registration within that period. (We will send reminders if the deeds have not been received but will not acknowledge receipt of deeds.)
Without prejudice to your obligation to comply in full with the Safeguards provisions in the CML Lenders’ Handbook, to report to us as soon as possible any suspicion that you have about the genuineness of any transaction in any respect.

My firm is not on the LendInvest conveyancing panel as well other banks. My clients, who have applied for a mortgage with LendInvest wish use my firms conveyancing services even though I am not on the LendInvest panel. Am I doing anything wrong is suggesting to my client that they use a firm down the road to act for LendInvest on mortgage aspect of the conveyancing?

You need to be careful here as what you are intending may not be acceptable to the lender. It is possible that you (as a non-panel firm) or the mortgage applicant are not entitled instruct a panel firm of your choice. Many lenders make it clear to their panel firms that where a non-panel member firm is instructed by one of their mortgage applicants, the lender will appoint a panel firm to carry out its instructions and to liaise with the borrower's conveyancing firm. You also need to make the costs implications and potential for delay very clear to your client.

Should CQS membership guarantee my firm’s acceptance on to lenders conveyancing panels?

CQS accreditation gives no guarantee to lender panel acceptance. Nevertheless the Council of Mortgage Lenders have indicated that it is likely to become a prerequisite for firms wishing to remain on their approved list of conveyancing solicitors. A number of Lenders now use CQS as the starting point for Panel acceptance as is the case with HSBC.

I am on the LendInvest conveyancing panel and scheduled to complete a purchase shortly. My file does not contain a Mortgage Deed for the client to sign. Who do I contact at LendInvest to get a duplicate Deed?

You would be advised to get in touch with LendInvest to obtain standard documents. The The Council of Mortgage Lenders Handbook has an individual section for banks to enumerate who to contact to obtain standard documents. LendInvest in their Part 2’s state:

You will need to quote your LendInvest conveyancing panel reference.

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Average number of days to register title including a charge in favour of LendInvest

This information relates to purchase only and not remortgages.

Year	Days*
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* Data aggregated from sources including COMPLETIONmonitor

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