Search the NRAM conveyancing panel by postcode
NRAM releases mortgage funds to a firm working with its instructions. 31 firms in the directory work with NRAM 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 NRAM may apply its own administration charges, which sit outside any legal fee.
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How the postcode search decides what to show you
Searching a lender panel is not the same as searching a list of local solicitors. The starting point is the lender, because the lender decides which firms can act for it, and only then does location narrow the answer.
Match the lender
The search begins by resolving NRAM to a panel, so every firm returned is one working with that lender's instructions rather than simply a nearby conveyancer.
Place the postcode
The postcode is resolved to a location and firms are ordered by distance from it. Distance is a convenience rather than a requirement: conveyancing is largely done remotely, and a firm two counties away can act perfectly well.
Weigh accreditation and capacity
Regulatory status is shown against each firm, and firms not currently taking instructions do not appear. Some lenders treat Conveyancing Quality Scheme accreditation as a condition of panel membership, and it is worth asking a firm which accreditations it holds.
No search-demand figures are published for NRAM, because the sample recorded against this lender is too small to describe honestly. Where numbers appear anywhere on this site they come from a named, dated source, and where they are absent it is because there is nothing solid enough to print.
Title defects, and the policies that cover them
Whether a policy is enough is a decision for NRAM rather than for the buyer or the seller. That is why the question reaches your solicitor as a lender requirement instead of as a choice.
No planning permission or building regulations sign-off
A previous owner altered the property, a loft conversion or a removed wall, and the final sign-off was never obtained. The policy responds to enforcement action by the local authority.
Standard title checkChancel repair liability
An old obligation attached to land in certain parishes to contribute towards repairs to the parish church. Rarely enforced, cheaply insured, and routinely checked.
Standard title checkA restrictive covenant that has been breached
A historic restriction on the title was broken at some point, and whoever benefits from it could in principle still enforce it. The policy covers the loss if they do.
Standard title checkOther title and access defects
Missing rights of way, drainage access that was never formally granted, and small boundary anomalies noted on the register.
Standard title checkThis site publishes no frequency figures for this lender, because it holds no sample for it. Which policies a particular title needs, and on what terms, is a matter for the conveyancer looking at that title.
Questions people ask about this panel
Changes that are not a purchase or a remortgage
An ordinary purchase or remortgage is covered by the panel rules described elsewhere on this page. What follows is about the non-routine: alterations to the title itself. The examples below are illustrative rather than a complete list.
Changing who owns it
A transfer of equity or a lease extension changes the title, so where a NRAM mortgage is in place the work normally has to be done by a firm the lender has approved. Consent is the gating item rather than a formality at the end.
Splitting or selling part of it
Dividing a title, or selling off part of a mortgaged plot, means the lender releasing its charge over the part that is leaving. That is a decision for the lender before it is a job for a conveyancer.
Some changes are arranged with NRAM directly and do not need a conveyancer at all. Consent to let and a rate switch are the common ones. Handling those without instructing a firm avoids external legal fees, although the lender may apply its own administration charge and its own conditions.
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