Advice please!!!!

Sph2014

Hello everyone, new to this forum and looking for some advice please!

My partner and I bought our first family home in December. It was a repossession and needs lots of work doing to it.

It is a 3 bedroom semi with no garage.

Please try to picture this... To the left of us is the semi we are attached to. To the right of us there is around 8 ft of land down the side of the house with a large breeze block wall. Over the wall is 30ft of land and then a large detached house.

We have been getting stuck in in the renovations and when we arrive home from work today we have had the deeds to the house come through.

To our shock the deeds say we own the land next door. The 30 ft of land up to the large detached house.

My question is... Is this land still ours? How do we go about trying to get it back? The house next door have not built on it other than there is a breeze block wall as separation.

We do have a solicitor we can speak to on Monday but just wondering if any advice in the mean time as we are really confused.

Thank you

anselld

It might be that the 30ft has been sold off to the neighbours previously.

Have you checked the most recent transfer deed, i.e. what was actually sold to you by the previous owners?

Have you checked the current title plan?

Have you asked the neighbours?

lee111s

Did you not go through the land registry document with the conveyencer/solicitor? Pretty sure I had to sign a document which outlined my property in red to say that I agreed with what the land registry had as belonging to my purchase.

theartfullodger

Can't understand how you can have bought without seeing the deeds beforehand: Usually they are easily available, with plan, for £6 on landregistry: Takes about 10 minutes.

Sounds like good news but nothing is going to happen fast. I would speak with your solicitor ("why didn't I/you get deeds before we agreed purchase") and any neighbours or estate agents locally (not that neighbour..) and I'd also purchase "that" neighbours deeds, with plan, and see what they say/show.

https://www.gov.uk/search-property-information-land-registry
Errors are made on deeds: Slowly does it.. should be interesting!

Sph2014

Thank you for your replies.

The house was a repossession so we moved very quickly on it.

Our solicitor who handled it is a family friend, when we signed he did go through the deeds with us but at the time our 6 month old baby was screaming so it was relatively rushed but being a family friend we trust him etc. amongst the screams I did remember hearing something about next door neighbours land.

Thank you we will have a look at the neighbours in question's plot.

Land_Registry

Sph2014 wrote: »

To our shock the deeds say we own the land next door. The 30 ft of land up to the large detached house.

It all hinges on what you mean by 'the deeds' as the term can mean many things to different people. But you should not be 'shocked' even if the solicitor who acted for you was a family friend - this should have been checked

The title deeds are what we would refer to as the registered details held by us at Land Registry, namely the register (written word) and the title plan showing the general extent as mapped by us with a red line on the Ordnance Survey detail available at the time it was first registered in most cases.

Alternatively you may be referring to the deeds by which the property changed hands over the years before it became registered. These may well refer to additional or larger areas of land/property and demonstrate how each sale for example has then changed (or not) the extent of the land/property involved.

There could be other factors in play as anselld posts.

So what you need to confirm is what are you actually looking at? Is it the current edition of the title plan for your property or something 'from the past'?

Have a look at our online guidance re the information we hold and how to obtain it. You can view an example register and title plan online.

Then let us know

G_M

Buy the Land registry Plan (£3) for next door.

If it includes the land, then following this up will lead to a dispute.

If it does not, then the land is not your neighbour's so is (almost certainly) yours.