Obtaining and reading a Principality Building Society redemption statement
Notice, authority and account numbers on the way in; assumptions, charges and the discharge route on the way out. For conveyancers acting on a Principality Building Society redemption.
- Minimum notice
- 5 working days
- Handbook reference
- Part 2 · 17.2.1a/b
- Principality Building Society Part 2 last changed
- 2026
- Years with a change
- 8 of the 10 to 2026
- Jurisdiction
- England & Wales
Part 2 of the UK Finance Mortgage Lenders' Handbook is amended by lenders without notice. Check the current version before relying on any requirement described here.
Before you ask Principality Building Society for a redemption figure
The general position on a redemption statement is the same across the market. What differs is the lender's own requirement, and that sits in Part 2 of the UK Finance Mortgage Lenders' Handbook rather than in general guidance.
Write once and include everything: the date you expect to redeem, your standing, every account or roll number, and how you intend to pay. Allow Principality Building Society five working days, and allow yourself room to ask again if the date moves.
The date you expect to redeem
Quote it explicitly. The figure is calculated to a date, and a statement raised to the wrong one is a statement you have to ask for again.
Who you act for
State that you are retained by the borrower, or that you hold their written authority. A lender that cannot tell which applies is entitled to decline.
Every account or roll number
Take them from the official copies and from the client, not from one or the other. Where Principality Building Society holds several loans on one charge, a figure covering some of them does not clear it.
How you intend to pay
Say so, and label the payment so it can be allocated on arrival. A cheque should be payable to Principality Building Society and carry the account number and the borrower's name; a transfer should carry the account number, your firm name and your address.
Room for the date to move
Five working days is the minimum notice, and a completion date that moves is the ordinary case rather than the exception. Asking with room to ask again is cheaper than asking twice in a hurry.
Reading the Principality Building Society figure before you send a completion statement
Nothing here is about the arithmetic, which is the lender's. It is about what the figure relates to, what it covers, what it has assumed, and what it itemises.
Does it match the charge you are redeeming
Read the account reference on the statement against the charge on the official copies rather than against your file note. A borrower can hold more than one secured account with Principality Building Society, and the two look alike on a letter.
Does it cover everything that charge secures
A single charge can stand behind several advances, including further lending taken years later. A figure that clears one advance leaves the charge on the register, and the loans it does not cover are the ones nobody mentioned.
What has it assumed about the final month
Mid-month redemptions are treated differently by different lenders: some take the whole month, some exclude payments falling after the redemption date. Where the statement does not say, get the assumption in writing before you tell the client anything about the direct debit.
Are the charges itemised, and does the client recognise them
Early repayment and final repayment charges belong on the face of the statement. Send the client a copy so they can confirm every loan they meant to redeem is on it, and send your completion statement in time for the payment to be authorised.
What follows a Principality Building Society redemption at HM Land Registry
The part of this that carries risk is priority rather than paperwork. A buyer's solicitor has a priority period, and a discharge that arrives after it has run leaves an application to be lodged against a register that has moved on. That is why the 1985 guidance from the Building Societies Association and the Law Society is still cited: seven days for the receipted mortgage or Form DS1, and notice of any likely delay so the application can be lodged in time.
Which route applies decides how long you are waiting. An electronic discharge reaches HM Land Registry from the lender's own system and the entries are usually cancelled on receipt, but it covers a discharge of whole only. An e-DS1 is submitted by the lender after it has the correct payment, and it is normally flagged on the redemption statement itself. A paper DS1 comes back to you.
Part 2 of the Handbook holds both answers for Principality Building Society: where the discharge and the repayment remittance are to be sent, and whether the lender deals with HM Land Registry directly. Read the current version rather than the one you remember, and send the discharge with the remittance on completion day rather than behind it.
Not a rhetorical instruction: Principality Building Society has changed its Part 2 in 8 of the 10 years to 2026, most recently in 2026. Counted from the Lexsure Part 2 change record, which holds the years a Part 2 was amended rather than what any amendment said. Part 2 is amended without notice, so the version to read is the current one whichever way that count goes.
Principality Building Society redemptions: questions conveyancers ask
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