Persimmons !!!! up on land registry

lewishardwick

The fault is neither yours, or your neighbours. Just because you don't get on, doesn't mean you have the right to be an a$$ over it.

A !!!!ed off neighbour can make your life misery for much longer than a land registry error will take to fix.

Glad I don't live next to you!

Red-Squirrel_2

panzer_pure wrote: »

I know this is selfish but from my side i dont seem to have anything to lose, i have the land to the garage and they would be losing out to a mistake persimmons have made? If anything i would gain value?

Do you want to be a decent person or do you want to be the kind of person who steals from their neighbours?

AdrianC

panzer_pure wrote: »

I know this is selfish but from my side i dont seem to have anything to lose, i have the land to the garage and they would be losing out to a mistake persimmons have made? If anything i would gain value?

Then I'm out.

stator

If you try keep the land you will doubtless end up in court, I've no idea who would win.
You might own the land at the moment, but you don't own the garage.
Personally I'd like to get it sorted, as long as they are willing to pay your costs.

scriv

If you don't sort it out now when you have the chance, you are bound to have legal and perhaps very costly problems down the line and most definitely when you want to sell and have to declare the history of your property and any disputes to a purchaser or lender.

martindow

I suppose the OP could ask Persimmon to make an offer to buy the piece of land which he currently owns so they can give it back to the neighbour.

It seems strange that the neighbour bought their house without noticing that the paperwork didn't include the garage.

davidmcn

I suspect that if the OP isn't agreeable to doing it the easy way, there may be a "hard" way which Persimmon could use to remedy the title problem.

martindow wrote: »

It seems strange that the neighbour bought their house without noticing that the paperwork didn't include the garage.

No more strange than the OP failing to notice that they had an extra garage! Possibly the same (developer-friendly) solicitor acting for both?

MobileSaver

panzer_pure wrote: »

i dont seem to have anything to lose, i have the land to the garage and they would be losing out to a mistake persimmons have made? If anything i would gain value?

I suspect you may have more to lose than you think if Persimmons take you to court over what is an obvious clerical error and you are shown to have been unreasonable.

Similarly you may end up with a world of pain when trying to sell your property that could easily devalue yours by thousands when the neighbour dispute (which by law you will HAVE to disclose) is brought to the attention of any potential buyers!

AlexMac

Agree with

stator wrote: »

You don't have to do anything yet. But when you come to sell your house it may cause you problems and delay things, so probably best to get it sorted. It may even cause problems if you wanted to remortgage and the valuation agent spotted the problem.

and others who say; easier to sort now, the simplest way.

If you put off sorting it, or worse, get tricky and end up with neighbour disputes and land regsitry problems, it will rebound on you when you come to sell.

Buyers and their soicitors and lenders don't like anyting irregular; when a mate of mine was buying he disovered a minor discrepancy with the "red-line" on the plans of the place he was buying; and because his seller was in a hurry and he was a hard bedsted negotiator, it cost his vendor thousands off the price... He was laughing and his solicitor sorted it before completion