When you remortgage a property, your lender will need your solicitor to be on their approved legal panel. Choosing a firm that is already on your lender’s panel saves a lot of time, it avoids the duplication of legal work, and it prevents the additional costs by needing separate representation.  A lot of High Street and specialist buy to let lenders will not permit split representation (but private or bridging lenders require the representation to be split).  You may ask, how do I know if a solicitor is on a mortgage panel?  Either your broker will be able to find out if your chosen solicitor is on a specific lender’s panel, you can telephone the bank directly, or you can check online to see if a solicitor has advertised that they are on a panel for a particular bank.

Ola Leslie Solicitors LLP are approved panel solicitors for virtually all major banks, building societies and specialist lenders in the UK.

We are Conveyancing Quality Scheme (CQS) accredited, a Law Society standard that is a mandatory requirement for most high street lenders.

We also have 4 SRA approved managers / partners, which satisfies the eligibility criteria of a number of specialist and private lenders who require this level of supervision and compliance assurance.  There are other commercial lenders who require a minimum of 3 SRA managers / partners to be able to act on a borrower’s behalf.