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Land Registry Title Look up
englishdesi
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Hi All,
a friend at work claims the house he is living in is his, it's a £500,000 house and he works at Macdonalds !
I don't believe him and am considering looking up his property details on land registry to see who the title belongs to etc.
My only concern is, can he ever find out I have done this ? do the Land Registry know I looked him up ? if he ever gets curious and wants to know who looked him up, is he able to do this ?
Englishdesi
a friend at work claims the house he is living in is his, it's a £500,000 house and he works at Macdonalds !
I don't believe him and am considering looking up his property details on land registry to see who the title belongs to etc.
My only concern is, can he ever find out I have done this ? do the Land Registry know I looked him up ? if he ever gets curious and wants to know who looked him up, is he able to do this ?
Englishdesi
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No.................never.0
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Agree - he will never know. Anyway, the Land Registry is a public register - anyone can look up any property they want!Warning ..... I'm a peri-menopausal axe-wielding maniac
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If you are that wooried get a friend who is not known to the friend at work to do it.A retired senior partner, in own agency, with 40 years experience in property sales & new build. In latter part of career specialising in commercial - mostly business sales.0
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going by your other thread,
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1791095
you seem to have taken a rather deep interest in other people's personal affairs.
Jealously can be hard to live with but if you find his bragging upsetting then learn to ignore it or bragg about something yourself. He might have inherited it !0 -
IMO all searches of this type *should* be logged, regardless of the fact that it's a public register. There should also be a two tier fee - the level it's at now for those who have genuine cause to check the property out, ie tenants with errant LLs or those who are buying the property, and a great big fat fee for nosey parkers.
I reckon the OP has a pretty empty life.;)0 -
I don't see what the problem is with anyone being able to check out the details of a property. It is a great service and would have saved countless heartache if done years ago. If there is a charge, then even better to be available online. Most people are nosey, though they would deny it.
"Life is difficult. Life is a series of problems. What makes life difficult is that the process of confronting and solving problems is a painful one." M Scott Peck. The Road Less Travelled.0 -
Yep it is a great service, I make it routine to buy the LR entry when I'm considering renting somewhere, I want to make sure I know exactly who my prospective landlord is and maybe, from the date of the charges etc., get a feel if if he is a recent BTLetter who may be up to his eyeballs in debt
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Important that you go to the official Land Registry website - see post #5 on this thread:
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1794445
Don't end up paying £20 or so for something you can obtain from the official site at a much cheaper rate..RICHARD WEBSTER
As a retired conveyancing solicitor I believe the information given in the post to be useful assuming any properties concerned are in England/Wales but I accept no liability for it.0
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