property inheritance question

semi42

My father in law passed away last xmas time, my wife was the sole beneficiary of the entire estate. we have gone through the probate process ourselves wwithout the use of a solicitor
we are nearing completion of the renovation of his house and we will be putting it on the market soon.
there was no mortgage on the property bud when we cleared the house out there was no deed papers to be found .
I assume we have to change the property ownership with the land registry before a sale can commence and i have downloaded and printed off forms AS1 and AP1 from their website.
The forms are a bit over my head to be honest and im wondering wether or not i am pointing in the right direction or if it is wiser to appoint a soliccitor to do this process?

Dan-Dan

We inherited our grans house , we are selling it as is (i.e with the grant of probate) are you sure you need to transfer into your name/s before selling ?

terryw

No need to change the name at the LR. You will be selling as "executors of the estate of......".

Land_Registry

As others have posted it is not essential to register your wife as the legal owner before selling for registered properties in England & Wales - the probate provides any buyer with suitable evidence of her power to sell.

If the property was to be left vacant for some time we would always recommend registration though. If that is likely or for any reason the property is not sold then the forms AP1 and AS1 are the correct ones to use. We do supply online notes to assist with their completion and much of the information needed on each form is shown in the probate and on the registered title itself.

Note - if your Father in law had owned the property for some time then there is a small chance that it may of course not be registered. You can check the 'trigger date' for first registration in our Practice Guide 51 if you are not sure whether it is registered or not.