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Lender Handbook Archive

What did the mortgage lender require when the transaction took place? Check the Lexsure Lender Archive and purchase the relevant historical lender record where available.

Today’s UK Finance Mortgage Lenders’ Handbook may differ from the instructions applicable to an earlier purchase or remortgage. Dated lender-specific requirements can help when reviewing a conveyancing file, responding to a lender audit or investigating a complaint or professional indemnity claim.

Need the lender’s historical requirements?

Identify your lender, transaction date and issue, then check availability and purchase the relevant dated record from the Lexsure Lender Archive.


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  • Lenders Shying Away From Freehold Flats

    Yorkshire Building Society has tightened its mortgage lending criteria by removing a geographical exception for freehold flats in Scarborough, now rendering many such properties unmortgageable. This change is part of a broader trend among lenders to avoid the risks associated with freehold flats, following similar restrictions imposed by major banks across England and Wales.

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  • Uninusured Conveyancing Firms About to be Named

    Legal Futures has this morning reported that the Solicitors Regulation Authority are about publish a list of those law firms which were to have closed on 29 December because they failed to secure professional indemnity insurance. With approximately 100 firms to be closed it is reasonable to assume that many firms conducted conveyancing. The SRA…

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