Compulsory Demolition Due to WW2 Bomb

Davesnave

Some people get a rough ride when they come here, don't they?

I don't see this as having anything to do with compo at all. Rightly or wrongly, money was paid-in, so it seems sensible to ask what happened to it and what it bought.

moneyistooshorttomention

It is a valid point that the parents will need some sort of physical paperwork (ie Deeds) to prove their ownership or this might fail at first base.

I don't suppose it is down electronically Registered in the modern-day fashion (though stranger things have happened and no harm in asking).

From memory - I don't think this electronic Registration started until the 1980s??? It varied as to when it would be across the country. So this may (or may not) have been one of the earlier areas to "get done".

EDIT; Apparently we are talking a PG2 form from the Land Registry - which is first registration if Deeds are lost or destroyed. Now it's down to whether there is a chance that it's possible to register a property where both the deeds themselves are lost/destroyed and so is the property they are for.

Now it's down to what the parents have done about their original paper Deeds. Have they kept them is the first question? I know I'd keep paperwork for a property I owned - even if the property itself no longer existed (hoping I could "get it back" at some point - if not the original building - and knowing I'd need to keep the proof I still owned it). Now do the parents think the same way? I'm guessing those Deeds do still exist and are lodged with the company the mortgage was with.

Gers

Check with https://www.ros.gov.uk/ - the staff there are very helpful. Note that copies of relevant documents cost significantly more than in England. No £3.00 jobbies here.

The land on which tenements stands is joint owned by each of the (normally) eight residents. It's not normal for just one person to own it when buildings are standing.

moneyistooshorttomention

Well - I've just googled as to when the modern day form of Land Registration started in Glasgow

- and up came a wikipedia entry:

which stated things are somewhat different there to rest of the country and property started being Registered there in 1617 - under something called a Register of Sassines before going onto a modern day system in 1981.

Hmmm...:think: - might be worth doing some further reading around this...

Gers

See my post above.

jimmy_cricket

I would imagine that he bank who held the mortgage would also hold the deeds. These should have been handed t o your parents on paying off the mortgage.
My first port of call would be parents and then the bank

davidmcn

stephen6373 wrote: »

Hi David, we're not sure where the deeds have gone.

Doesn't matter, their ownership would have been registered in the Register of Sasines, and it's straightforward to check what happened to their interest (and to get copies of deeds if that seems worthwhile).

00ec25 wrote: »

the person who possesses the paper deeds, and moreover in whose name those deeds are entered, is the de facto owner

No, possession of the deeds is meaningless in Scotland.

Davesnave wrote: »

Some people get a rough ride when they come here, don't they?

I don't see this as having anything to do with compo at all. Rightly or wrongly, money was paid-in, so it seems sensible to ask what happened to it and what it bought.

Indeed, no matter what the motivation, it's perfectly reasonable to check what happened to their ownership - if they do still have title then it will need tidied up by the family eventually.

Pixie5740

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Well - I've just googled as to when the modern day form of Land Registration started in Glasgow

- and up came a wikipedia entry:

which stated things are somewhat different there to rest of the country and property started being Registered there in 1617 - under something called a Register of Sassines before going onto a modern day system in 1981.

Hmmm...:think: - might be worth doing some further reading around this...

Not really since the Land Registry only records the ownership of land and property in England and Wales.

As Gers has already pointed out the ownership of land and property (amongst other things) in Scotland is recorded by the Registers of Scotland.

Rosemary7391

Another thought - to do anything with the land will they not need to track down the other owners? Are they still in touch with any of the neighbours, and what did the neighbours do?

greyfox

Something isn't adding up here. OP says that her parents had a mortgage but no buildings insurance. Even now (according to the Council of Mortgage Lenders) adequate buildings insurance would be a condition of getting a mortgage. When I bought my first house in the 1970s, I'm pretty certain that the lender dictated which company it had to be with & the annual premium was added to the mortgage repayments, though this was relaxed some years later.