Urgent advice re negative equity, name on mortgage but on land registry

kitten74

I bought a house with an expartner, joint mortgage but he left and a yr after he left he took over mortgage and I signed over the land registry to him but my name on mortgage still. 5 yrs later House is still in negative equity and have seen that the house is up for sale, am I still liable to pay half of the negative equity. Any assistance greatly appreciated

bryanb

I would say you are liable to pay all the negative equity, but so is your ex.

mrginge

Probably.
But if you refused to pay it, then he'd have to since the lender won't release their charge without it being paid off.

Captain__

Someone will have to pay the negative equity if he has not already. He could also port the mortgage to another property, but I could not believe he could do that legally without your agreement?