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Land registry urgent help!
coranna
Posts: 1 Newbie
Hi there,
We have just agreed a sale on our house & land. They are on two deeds. Is it worth registering the house (it is not registered) and land under one register to make the conveyancing quicker and easier/less costly? If so can I register both very quickly so that the conveyance is not held up? or is it better to just let the conveyancers sort out the sale as two items?
Thank you in anticipation!
We have just agreed a sale on our house & land. They are on two deeds. Is it worth registering the house (it is not registered) and land under one register to make the conveyancing quicker and easier/less costly? If so can I register both very quickly so that the conveyance is not held up? or is it better to just let the conveyancers sort out the sale as two items?
Thank you in anticipation!
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Land Registry rep works Monday to Friday.
So - I expect you'll have to wait till Monday and they'll answer you then.0 -
Unless you have amazingly naff cinveyancers dealing with it selliung a property with two separate unregistered titles is no big deal of itself. To register it would take a few months (depedning on LR backlogs) and there would be a fee depending on the value of the property plus the legal fees of the solicitors to do it.
Just get a good solicitor to act for you and the extra cost of delaing with unregistered land will be nothing to the delay and probably significantly higher extra cost in getting the title registered.RICHARD WEBSTER
As a retired conveyancing solicitor I believe the information given in the post to be useful assuming any properties concerned are in England/Wales but I accept no liability for it.0 -
of course your buyer will also have to use a conveyancer who is not amazingly naff. It is they (the buyer's conveyancers) who will have to satisfy themselves your 2 Titles are 'good'.
Some of the cheap conveyancing warehouses rely on tick-boxing land registry Titles, so if your buyer uses one of those......0 -
Coranna - you say 'it is not registered' re the house but I assume both the house and land are not registered and you have two sets of deeds in effect.
If so then as Richard and G+M have already posted that in some cases a buyer may be reluctant to proceed until they have been registered. Applications of this sort are taking on average 55/60 working days currently.
So the key, again as posted, is perhaps letting the buyer's solicitor know asap re it being unregistered and finding out how they wish to play it. If they want it registered first then get your solicitor to lodge that asap and then to let us know re the confirmed buyer along with a request to expedite the registration“Official Company Representative
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