Search the Metro Bank conveyancing panel by postcode
Metro Bank releases mortgage funds to a firm working with its instructions. 36 firms in the directory work with Metro Bank instructions. Search by postcode to see which cover your area, nearest first.
Searching costs nothing. Legal fees are agreed with the firm you instruct, and Metro Bank may apply its own administration charges, which sit outside any legal fee.
- Firms in the directory
- 36 working with Metro Bank
- Locations covered
- 8
- Searches, last 30 days
- 94
- Most-searched rank
- 19 of 138 lenders
- Searched most from
- South East
- Panel type
- conveyancing panel
- Jurisdiction
- Scotland
- Handbook
- UK Finance · Part 2
Directory figures are counted from the LenderPanel listings that carry Metro Bank instructions, and search demand is counted from postcode searches recorded there. Both describe the directory rather than Metro Bank’s own approved panel, which is larger.
Behind the Metro Bank panel search: lender first, then location
The postcode does less work here than people expect. It orders the firms on the Metro Bank conveyancing panel by proximity; it does not decide which of them can act.
South East
21%43 of the searches for Metro Bank that could be placed in a region came from South East.
London
17%34 of the searches for Metro Bank that could be placed in a region came from London.
North West
14%28 of the searches for Metro Bank that could be placed in a region came from North West.
Scotland
12%24 of the searches for Metro Bank that could be placed in a region came from Scotland.
Yorkshire and the Humber
10%20 of the searches for Metro Bank that could be placed in a region came from Yorkshire and the Humber.
Across every lender searched on the directory in the last ninety days, Metro Bank sits at number 19 of 138. Rank is a measure of how often people look for a lender, not of how well its panel firms perform, and the two are worth keeping apart.
Narrowing to the panel
Everything starts from the lender. Firms that do not work with Metro Bank instructions are removed before anything else is considered, which is why this returns a shorter list than a search for local solicitors would.
Ordering by proximity
What remains is sorted by how far each office is from the postcode entered. Proximity decides the order and nothing else does: no firm pays for a higher position, and the ranking carries no judgement about quality.
Leaving firms out
A firm that has paused new instructions is withheld rather than shown as unavailable, because a listing somebody cannot act on wastes a telephone call. Regulatory details are printed against each firm so they can be checked independently.
Figures come from searches recorded on the LenderPanel directory since June 2026, last read in August 2026. They count searches rather than transactions, and a search is a person looking rather than a mortgage completing. Regional shares are calculated over the searches whose postcode area could be placed in a region, which is not quite all of them.
Panel membership changes, including on the Metro Bank panel
Being on the Metro Bank panel is not a single yes or no. A firm can be approved to act on a standard purchase and not on a shared-ownership or buy-to-let one, so the question has to name the transaction.
Why panels move
Lenders review their panels, and a firm can be added or removed without any announcement. Nothing arrives in the post to say so, which is why a firm that acted for Metro Bank last year is not evidence about this year.
What to actually ask
"Are you currently able to act for Metro Bank on a purchase?" is a better question than "are you on the panel?", because it names the lender and the transaction and cannot be answered vaguely.
The consequence worth understanding
Where a firm cannot act for the lender, the lender instructs its own. The transaction continues with two firms and the borrower usually carries both sets of costs, so this is a question about money as much as about process.
Acting for you and for Metro Bank at the same time
Much of what a solicitor asks for on a Metro Bank matter is asked on the lender's behalf rather than on yours. The document that decides which questions those are is the UK Finance Mortgage Lenders' Handbook, and it is public.
Part 1
The settled half
- A single document covering what has to be investigated on any mortgage matter, and what has to be reported back before funds are released.
- It moves slowly and in public, so a change to it is news rather than a surprise.
Knowing Part 1 tells a conveyancer how the work is done, not what this particular lender wants.
Part 2
The half Metro Bank controls
- Metro Bank sets its own position here on the points Part 1 hands to it, and can revise that position whenever it decides to.
- A requirement that applied on the last matter may not apply on this one, and there is no notice period in which to notice.
This is the half worth checking on the day rather than remembering.
A conveyancer who acted on a Metro Bank matter last year may or may not be working from current requirements. The years below are what decides that.
Part 2 changes have been recorded for Metro Bank in every year since 2013. A run that reaches the present is the case for reading the current version rather than working from the last matter, and it is the reason this site monitors Part 2 instead of reprinting it.
Counting the amendments rather than the years: Metro Bank has made 693 changes to Part 2 sections since 2017, 14 of them in 2026. One amendment can touch several sections, so this counts section changes rather than distinct sections, and revisions that moved nothing but the document’s own date are left out.
Counted from the Lexsure Part 2 change record supplied on 3 August 2026, which holds the years a lender’s Part 2 was amended rather than what any amendment said. 2026 is a part year, because the extract was taken partway through it. A lender that revises Part 2 often is not a worse lender than one that leaves it alone: what these figures describe is how far a conveyancer can rely on what applied last time, which is why the current version is the one to check.
This site says which Part 2 question holds a lender-specific answer rather than reprinting the answer. A stale copy of a requirement, on a page someone acts on, is worse than no copy.
Questions people ask about the Metro Bank panel
Most of these are asked before instructing anybody, which is the right time to ask them. A few are asked afterwards, which is usually more expensive.
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