Land Registry Information from 30 Years Ago?

All_eBayed_Out

Bit of an odd one here...
I am trying to compile a list of a deceased family members properties they owned & rented out towards the end of their life. I know the city they were located in, and when roughly they would have owned them, but I dont know the street or road. Is this a possible search even though over 30 years have passed?

Can anyone help? Is Land Registry an option?

Sonofa

You would need to know the title No. or address. You can't search for a name, as the title will become updated with whoever the current owner is.

If they owned but didn't live in the property then I can't see that Census info would help either.

John_Pierpoint

As adverse possession takes 12 years, why are you interested in something that is still within "living memory".

Governments are not very keen or releasing "archive" information when the parties could still be alive.

poppysarah

Do death certs list address? Look up wills too.

All_eBayed_Out

I know it is so long ago but I have information about several properties (over 6) not disclosed in a will or have been 'lost' am wondering what information I can gather.

mizzbiz

Unless you know which properties they were, you would find it very, very difficult to trace them. Until Land registration became compulsory, most property ownership was proved by holding the deeds, so unless there was voluntary registration, you would not find the details in the LR.

You would need the exact property details for the LR to help you too. As the abpve poster said, you can't really search by name. Without deeds, an address or anything like that your search will be nigh on impossible. The only solution I can think of is to find the solicitor of the people you think owned this property to see if they can help.

John_Pierpoint

You can search for wills and I think for death certificates.
As a recent executor I had to register the death and the certificate has both the address of the nursing home and the normal home address of the deceased.
However if someone has lived there for over 12 years, treating it as their own; you won't be able to get them out. (This isn't East Germany:rolleyes:)
Perhaps some estate agent has been carefully collecting the rents:rolleyes: