Land Registry questions

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happyandcontented said:

Thanks, we don't actually know if it has ever been registered. Her father inherited it from his father as I understand it.

How can we find out?

Check online for registered information. If unavailable then very likely to be unregistered 
https://www.gov.uk/search-property-information-land-registry

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error_eros said:

Hello @Land_Registry , we completed a purchase of a property at the end of last September, title no. EGL271855. I haven't heard anything from HMLR since and it's been 4 months. So I wonder if everything is alright with our application to update the registry? Can you please check the status of the application for me? We also made an enquiry with the contact form on the HMLR website.

Thanks very much
Ben

The application is still with us (submitted 20th Oct) and processing should start soon. 

The average wait time for this type of application is around 4 months but your conveyancer can check/confirm matters online and it will be then who are notified of completion or any reason for delay 
The 12+ months Slithery refers to is with regards a very different type of application. But the ‘nothing to worry about’ is correct here 

HH2022

Land_Registry said:

HH2022 said:

Could you please let us know the status of WT17344 (updating title to show the correct house number for the property) ? 

It was lodged today. Current wait times are lengthy so IF there’s an urgency such as an onward sale or remortgage then the conveyancer needs to request expedition next 

Thank you, I’ll check that expedition has been requested. 

Could I ask, what are the current wait times (expedited and normal)? 

Land_Registry

HH2022 said:

Land_Registry said:

HH2022 said:

Could you please let us know the status of WT17344 (updating title to show the correct house number for the property) ? 

It was lodged today. Current wait times are lengthy so IF there’s an urgency such as an onward sale or remortgage then the conveyancer needs to request expedition next 

Thank you, I’ll check that expedition has been requested. 

Could I ask, what are the current wait times (expedited and normal)? 

Average of 4 months without. 2 weeks with 

error_eros

Land_Registry said:

error_eros said:

Hello @Land_Registry , we completed a purchase of a property at the end of last September, title no. EGL271855. I haven't heard anything from HMLR since and it's been 4 months. So I wonder if everything is alright with our application to update the registry? Can you please check the status of the application for me? We also made an enquiry with the contact form on the HMLR website.

Thanks very much
Ben

The application is still with us (submitted 20th Oct) and processing should start soon. 

The average wait time for this type of application is around 4 months but your conveyancer can check/confirm matters online and it will be then who are notified of completion or any reason for delay 
The 12+ months Slithery refers to is with regards a very different type of application. But the ‘nothing to worry about’ is correct here 

Thanks you very much, that's very reassuring. I'll check with my conveyancer in a few days and see if they have been following up with this.

Thanks again,
Ben

HH2022

Land_Registry said:

HH2022 said:

Land_Registry said:

HH2022 said:

Could you please let us know the status of WT17344 (updating title to show the correct house number for the property) ? 

It was lodged today. Current wait times are lengthy so IF there’s an urgency such as an onward sale or remortgage then the conveyancer needs to request expedition next 

Thank you, I’ll check that expedition has been requested. 

Could I ask, what are the current wait times (expedited and normal)? 

Average of 4 months without. 2 weeks with 

Thank you!

Moonshooter

Round and around - Can you help LR?

I've put a number of queries on here about a charge on my deed. This is the short version; bought my grandfathers house, with the process overseen by a solicitor with conveyancing documents signed and registered also with LR. Grandfather died in 2006 and I have struggled to get the charge removed ever since. He is annotated as the lender on the deed (with me as the 'owner'), where i have paid for the property (bank statements to prove, also with a letter from my grandfather confirming i have paid). Is this not a case of simply compiling the documents and sending to Land Registry to confirm this is the case? I have asked another solicitor to undertake this task, as i have had so many different interpretations of what i can and cannot do, at great expense to date. I am at the point of simply giving up, so any comment hugely appreciated.  

Trooper21

Hi

I’ve sent a direct message on here regarding an AP1 application with title number reference (hope that’s ok).

Just to ask for a glance to see if  any information or dates I can be given regarding a response from yourselves I’d be grateful. 

Land_Registry

Moonshooter said:

Round and around - Can you help LR?

I've put a number of queries on here about a charge on my deed. This is the short version; bought my grandfathers house, with the process overseen by a solicitor with conveyancing documents signed and registered also with LR. Grandfather died in 2006 and I have struggled to get the charge removed ever since. He is annotated as the lender on the deed (with me as the 'owner'), where i have paid for the property (bank statements to prove, also with a letter from my grandfather confirming i have paid). Is this not a case of simply compiling the documents and sending to Land Registry to confirm this is the case? I have asked another solicitor to undertake this task, as i have had so many different interpretations of what i can and cannot do, at great expense to date. I am at the point of simply giving up, so any comment hugely appreciated.  

Charges are discharged using a form DS1 executed by the lender or someone with the legal authority to do so, namely their executor or a judge 
In your case it reads as if you need probate for your grandfather and then his executor executes the discharge 
That’s all very routine so why hasn’t probate been obtained to resolve matters?

K88e

Anon98 said:

What sort of evidence might there be? The lease was a 99 year lease from 1964 which included other land, and then the title register states that there was a conveyance in 1984, and then a further conveyance again this year when it was put up for auction (I believe the tenants from 1984 may have died, not entirely sure who sold it at auction), the guy who bought it at  just thought it was a freehold property and overlooked the noted lease, now that they are trying to sell (to me) they don't know how to determine it as the only thing they have is a copy of the lease and the information in the freehold title plan. I know it's not my responsibility to sort this it will be the seller and his solicitor, but it's so complex I'm trying to understand it as much as I can and assist in anyway possible. 

Hello, @Anon98 we are currently dealing with the same issue, the current occupiers have owned the freehold property for 15 years and were unaware of a noted lease, and now we are ready to exchange and complete but being held up by the noted lease of 99 years dated 1967, we have been offered an indemnity policy but our solicitors have advised against it, and so we are hoping it can be sorted, so I wondered whether the noted lease was determined for your purchase? I'm finding it difficult to get any info on similar experiences and the impression I get is that our solicitors and the sellers solicitors are unsure how to proceed too, thanks.