Norwich and Peterborough Building Society Conveyancing Panel Information

The information on this page is designed to keep solicitors and licensed conveyancers abreast of latest requirements changes by Norwich and Peterborough Building Society and to assist in remaining on the Norwich and Peterborough Building Society Approved Conveyancing Solicitors Panel.

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Norwich and Peterborough Building Society Solicitor Panel Information:

What are the Norwich and Peterborough Building Society conveyancing panel arrangements?

Unlike the CML the Building Society Mortgage Instructions deal with this. Section A.12 states ‘In order to act on our behalf your firm or company must be a member of our conveyancing panel provided we are a society that operates one – see specific requirements for details of our arrangements. The Special Requirements state:

To be a member of our conveyancing panel you must be CQS accredited, must have submitted an application form, be registered on www.lawsociety.org, produced your current Practising Certificate together with evidence of professional indemnity insurance cover for a minimum of £2m (£3m if the firm is a Limited Liability Partnership or a company). Any panel application is subject to individual assessment and approval.

You must also comply with the terms and conditions of your Norwich and Peterborough Building Society solicitor panel appointment.

Being a practice on the Norwich and Peterborough Building Society conveyancing panel who should we call if I have a query about the BSA conveyancing instructions ?

If you are a solicitor and have a question regarding the instructions, you should make contact with Norwich and Peterborough Building Society. The BSA will not advise or comment on specific queries relating to Norwich and Peterborough Building Society or other lenders.

A recent SRA survey reveals that three quarters of solicitors have been removed or threatened with removal from a lender conveyancing panel. Norwich and Peterborough Building Society and other building societies have restricted their panel over the years. Why?

The feeling from lenders generally (we can not speak for Norwich and Peterborough Building Society specifically), is that for too long solicitors have concentrated on their duty of care to their purchasing client, and have paid scant attention to the duty they owe to the lender, whom they conveniently forget is also their client.

Looking from the lenders’ perspective, it has to be said that there are pressures to encourage smaller panels. The Financial Services Authority regards the open panel system as a major contributor to mortgage fraud and negligence cases, and has been leaning on lenders to move to proactive panel management, which is more expensive the larger the panel. Hence it is becoming more common for lenders to charge fees, and/or require extensive form-filling, from would-be panel members

Norwich and Peterborough Building Society and other BSA lenders are in varying stages of reviewing their approach to vetting firms on their conveyancing panels, to ensure their ongoing exposure to unsuitable firms is reduced.

Why did the Building Society Association introduced differing instructions from the CML?

The BSA introduced it’s Mortgage Instructions in 2010 to ensure that licensed conveyancers or solicitors on a building society conveyancing panel had full access to a complete set of standardised mortgage instructions.

What reports are available via COMPLETIONmonitor to assist my appeal to be reinstated on the Norwich and Peterborough Building Society solicitor panel?

There are many reports available but examples include:

Average time frame to register charges at the Land Registry
Average time frame to send deeds to the lender (calculated from completion date or title registration)
Number of conveyancing cases by lender
The percentage of the firm’s business which is conveyancing (purchase and remortgage)
Average mortgage advance
Buy to Let transactions
Disclosure to Lender analysis indicating frequency and nature of disclosures - to include benchmarking analysis against aggregate data
Evidence of undertaking logs
Current and historic missed priority dates
Analysis as to the nature of clients (e.g. new client )

Are figures published disclosing the Norwich and Peterborough Building Society conveyancing panel size as well as the number of conveyancing firms removed from their panel each quarter?

With lenders and conveyancers working so closely together it is surprising that there has not been much call for the introduction of a bit of transparency regarding not just the figures for the Norwich and Peterborough Building Society conveyancing panel but for all mortgage panel listings

What lender panels do you receive the most questions about?

BSA lenders do not come within the top 20 lenders in terms of frequency of questions. The most popular lender panels in terms of questions are as follows:

We are a 3-partner firm on the Norwich and Peterborough Building Society conveyancing panel. How can we advertise our practice as specialists in conveyancing in Hendon on the Norwich and Peterborough Building Society panel?

11 people search for a solicitor on the Norwich and Peterborough Building Society panel on a monthly basis in Hendon. Please contact the team at lenderpanel.com to see how your firm can be found by those searching for conveyancing in Hendon.

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Average number of days to register title including a charge in favour of Norwich and Peterborough Building Society

This information relates to purchase only and not remortgages.

Year	Days*
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2021	[no data]

* Data aggregated from sources including COMPLETIONmonitor

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