How long to receive updated title documents after registering land?

TheCyclingProgrammer

This is mainly a question for Land Registry representative but maybe somebody else here might know.

We are finally coming to the end of our house purchase saga and it seems that the only thing left preventing the chain from exchanging is an issue of a small piece of unregistered land at the front of the property our vendors are buying.

Through discussions with the estate agent and solicitors, our vendors have been told by their vendors that this land has now in fact been registered as of last weekend. However, exchange cannot proceed until the solicitors have had formal confirmation of this and received updated title registers.

How long would it normally take for these to become available? Do these have to be sent to the owners first or do they become available online?

I'm trying to get an idea of how much longer a wait we are in for - we had planned to exchange this week and the whole chain has agreed on a completion date of 9 March. I'm wondering how likely it is that we will make this date now!

G_M

Providing the LR have indeed been given all the documentation they need to register this land, it should take a few days (plus post-time) for the documentation.

But of course LR may have queries. The Plan may be insufficiently clear. Or one of the documents accompanying the registration be missing or faulty. etc.

This would obviously delay things.

Land_Registry

As soon as the registration is completed then they would be available online.

The solicitors would obtain their own copy of the title to confirm and I suspect they are waiting for the seller to confirm the new title number(if any) so that they can do that

TheCyclingProgrammer

Land_Registry_representative wrote: »

As soon as the registration is completed then they would be available online.

The solicitors would obtain their own copy of the title to confirm and I suspect they are waiting for the seller to confirm the new title number(if any) so that they can do that

Thanks for the reply. From the emails I've seen, our vendor's solicitor is waiting for the other party's solicitor to send them the updated title registers rather than obtaining them themselves. Frustrating.

Edit: spoke again to the EA and it appears that registration is not complete so we are indeed waiting for the LR to review and agree the registration.

Land_Registry

If the matter is urgent, which this one is, then the applicant will hopefully have contacted us to advise and asked us to try and speed up the registration for them - do you know if they have? If unsure or they have not then I would encourage them to do so.

TheCyclingProgrammer

Land_Registry_representative wrote: »

If the matter is urgent, which this one is, then the applicant will hopefully have contacted us to advise and asked us to try and speed up the registration for them - do you know if they have? If unsure or they have not then I would encourage them to do so.

I don't, but the matter is urgent.

As it is, we have received some positive news from the EA. Our vendor has instructed their solicitor to proceed with completion on the planned date of 9 March without waiting for the additional land to be registered and so long as their mortgage lender is OK with this and a provision is added to the contract for the unregistered land to be transferred as soon as it is registered, we should be able to exchange.

Thanks for your help.