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m1kjm

Won't nosey people monitor their neighbours' properties?!

m1kjm

torbrex wrote: »

I registered but my own address has come back as an invalid postcode
Does this mean it does not recognise Scotland?

I will try again later.

Yep, the Land Registry only covers property in England and Wales.

torbrex

m1kjm wrote: »

Yep, the Land Registry only covers property in England and Wales.

and yet on registration it asks which country and has United Kingdom as main choice

its discrimination I tell you, where do I apply for compensation?

Zanderman

MSE_Andrea wrote: »

Good spot Doc N and thanks to the Land registry for helping out on the thread.

If it's in any use, I've set it up and my home is also in a parallel universe

Perhaps we could find the common denominator.. mine was a new build. How about yours Zanderman?

Ours was new build 15 years ago. So there may be something in that (I have already highlighted that possibility in my email to LR).

But you'd think that was plenty of time to get the records straight - after all the system is supposed to be a register of who owns the land - and the land we have is listed twice, as two distinctly different freeholds. That can't be correct (though if it is correct it's very worrying).

If it is to do with new builds, and the anomaly lasts 15+ years, it doesn't make the 'registry' look very clever. It makes it look like they have duplicate entries in their database and they don't bother to detect or correct them (and/or don't have the facility to recognise that developers split land up and sell it!).

torbrex

Actually, I really am miffed about this :mad:

No-where on the registration or the T&C's does it say England & Wales only.

I have been duped into registering on a site, they now have all my details and I can find no way to unregister

Land_Registry

Zanderman wrote: »

Ours was new build 15 years ago.

But you'd think that was plenty of time to get the records straight - after all the system is supposed to be a register of who owns the land - and the land we have is listed twice, as two distinctly different freeholds. That can't be correct (though if it is correct it's very worrying).

If it is to do with new builds, and the anomaly lasts 15+ years, it doesn't make the 'registry' look very clever. It makes it look like they have duplicate entries in their database and they don't bother to detect or correct them (and/or don't have the facility to recognise that developers split land up and sell it!).

Thanks for the referral Zanderman and for your summation here.

The issue does relate to an address which was part of a new development and on completion of the registration the indexing (the data which attaches an address/land to a specific title number) was not updated/amended fully in so far as the new address was added but the old identifier was left in place.

In my experience this is a rarity but it can happen as MSE Andrea mentions, although invariably this is rectified over time

I've flagged up the road/development with the local office so the indexing/data should be amended shortly.

This duplication should not create any major issues in the conveyancing process as in the vast majority of cases customers would be using and relying on an already obtained title number reference. I do appreciate though why this sort of thing can cause some customers to be concerned.

Land_Registry

torbrex wrote: »

Actually, I really am miffed about this :mad:

No-where on the registration or the T&C's does it say England & Wales only.

I have been duped into registering on a site, they now have all my details and I can find no way to unregister

torbrex - apologies for your being misled/duped here. That is not our intention.

I have flagged up the issue with colleagues and asked them to consider two things.
Firstly amending the initial landing page to indicate that the service is for properties in England & wales only and
Secondly to consider removing the 'drop down' menu which asks for country details as this is unnecessary.
Hopefully both changes will be made although it may take a while to achieve depending on the usual IT/system checks requirements when making such changes with regards the 'drop down' change.

If you would like to have your registration details deleted then please contact the Property Alert team using the email address provided on the service page with your request

Fruit_and_Nut_Case

I registered my home and also my mother's home last month (August 2014). Worked fine for both. Still waiting for an alert, I'm glad to say

Land_Registry

MSE_Andrea wrote: »

Good spot Doc N and thanks to the Land registry for helping out on the thread.

If it's in any use, I've set it up and my home is also in a parallel universe

Perhaps we could find the common denominator.. mine was a new build. How about yours Zanderman?

MSE Andrea - unfortunately the same scenario here as the original developer's title remained 'linked' to the address/ I have flagged it for amendment so hopefully it will refer to the single title shortly.
Just this one address on that development affected though this time it seems.

Darkangel

Zanderman wrote: »

Rather alarmingly, when I entered my property in the search it came up with 2 apparently identical matches saying 'there are 2 properties that match your search'.

But there is only one. Unless LR are also monitoring an alternative parallel universe.

If the LR rep can offer an explanation I'd appreciate it. In the meantime I'm monitoring 'both' my house(s).

This has also happened with my property. It's listed twice; as freehold and leasehold. My building is a new build, about 3-4 years old.