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Extra costs should I be liable?

tea-bag
tea-bag Posts: 548 Forumite
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in House buying, renting & selling
G I received a email today from my solicitor saying they need a extra £250 because they are "Dealing with Unregistered Title" with the house I am buying. I would have thought the vendors are liable for this as it needs to be registered before they can sell??

Seems annoying I have to pay for them.

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  • makeitstop
    makeitstop Posts: 295 Forumite
    tea-bag wrote: »
    G I received a email today from my solicitor saying they need a extra £250 because they are "Dealing with Unregistered Title" with the house I am buying. I would have thought the vendors are liable for this as it needs to be registered before they can sell??

    Seems annoying I have to pay for them.


    The title does not have to be registered before a sale, and either the vendor or the buyer can deal with that.
  • tea-bag
    tea-bag Posts: 548 Forumite
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    makeitstop wrote: »
    The title does not have to be registered before a sale, and either the vendor or the buyer can deal with that.

    I am going to push for the vendor to pay
  • Mocha61
    Mocha61 Posts: 107 Forumite
    The house my daughter is buying is also unregistered her solicitor is dealing with this on completion.
  • tea-bag
    tea-bag Posts: 548 Forumite
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    Mocha61 wrote: »
    The house my daughter is buying is also unregistered her solicitor is dealing with this on completion.

    But for a fee I want to avoid the fee.

    On top of being stung on removes budget it has been a bad week.
  • skintpaul
    skintpaul Posts: 1,510 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture I've been Money Tipped! Combo Breaker First Post
    can you reduce this from house price, if vendor doesn't arrange themselves?
    breathe in, breathe out- You're alive! Everything else is a bonus, right? RIGHT??
  • G_M
    G_M Posts: 51,977 Forumite
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    Why should the vendor pay? He does not want it registered! He does not benefit from registration! The law does not require him to register!

    No reason for him to do it all.

    It's a buying cost. OK, perhaps one that you hadn't anticipated, but did you anticipate the cost of an additional gas engineer report?

    I'm afraid when buying property you need a coningency fund for a whole host of potential 'additional' costs that may arise.
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