Buying???

Thompson24

Hi guys

There is a tiny bit of land at the bottom of my garden which my neighbour has said we can buy off him to create a bigger garden for us. He wants £1500 for the peice of land which we are happy to pay and he wants us to pay ours and his solicitors fees.

We just wondered is there a lot of paper work involved or can it be stariaght forward? Would we need to do all the searches etc we had to get when we purchased the house or is it just the case of drawing up a bill off sale and adapting the boundarys with the land registry?

monty-doggy

Nice neighbour! Good luck with it

giraffe69

Nice neighbour! Good luck with it

You mean he should give it away? He should pay to sell it?

Guest101

Thompson24 wrote: »

Hi guys

There is a tiny bit of land at the bottom of my garden which my neighbour has said we can buy off him to create a bigger garden for us. He wants £1500 for the peice of land which we are happy to pay and he wants us to pay ours and his solicitors fees.

We just wondered is there a lot of paper work involved or can it be stariaght forward? Would we need to do all the searches etc we had to get when we purchased the house or is it just the case of drawing up a bill off sale and adapting the boundarys with the land registry?

Does he own outright? if so, it is really straight forward. if he has a mortgage, not so much

Thompson24

Yeah he owns outright

Riggster

Get quotes for all the work from a local solicitor. You obviously won't need a survey and I can't see why you'd need searches?

Poppy9

I bought a bit of land at the back of my garden from the Council about 14 years ago. We had to pay ours and Council's legal fees. Gave our solicitor a cheque for cover both sets of fees as requested. A few years ago we had a cheque returned to us by solicitor's as council had never requested the fees. I think it cost us a couple of hundred pounds in fees. We used same solicitor who we used when we bought the house a few years previous.

The bigger garden has added about £10k in value to our house.

Davesnave

You don't say how large the land is, but I recently sold a number of garden extension plots averaging 20' x 18' for approx. £5K each. My purchasers paid all my legal fees, which were £500.

Sounds like you have a potentially good deal there.

Land_Registry

We have an online FAQ which provides guidance on how to transfer registered land or property in England & Wales.

If your neighbour's property is mortgage-free then whether they obtain legal advice is a matter of choice. The same would apply to you as well although if your own property is mortgage and you want to combine the land and add it to the security then your mortgage lender is likely to want you to use a solicitor.

If you buy the land and keep it 'separate' in terms of registration then a form TP1 would be completed. Very similar to a normal house transfer but the form would also include a plan defining the land being transferred. Guidance on the quality of plan required is explained in our Practice Guide 40 Supplement 2

From a land registration perspective provided the necessary forms and application (including any evidence of identity) are completed correctly then registration can be quite straightforward. However we always recommend parties seek legal advice even if only to ensure that they have considered all of the issues involved and to potentially avoid problems at a later date when one or both decide to sell and move on.