Selling a House - No photo ID

westv

Thousands to the EA
Hundreds to the conveyancer
Quibble over £70 or so for a passport?

davidmcn

POPPYOSCAR wrote: »

The paperwork says we need to supply ID.

The solicitors have said to send in the paper driving licences and see what happens.

What "paperwork"? If this is for the solicitors' own purposes, why don't they know whether or not your ID is acceptable?

missimaxo wrote: »

Sorry to hijack the thread but is photo id absolutely necessary to sell a house?

There aren't any generally-applicable rules, each organisation will have their own policies about what constitutes acceptable ID.

AnotherJoe wrote: »

The OP hasn’t actually said they are moving, just that they are selling a property, which worded like that I suspect means they are not moving.

Their other posts suggest they are moving.

POPPYOSCAR

Thrugelmir wrote: »

Seems far easier not to. Rather than potentially delay the process. Once you move the paper ones become redundant anyway. You'll receive photo licences.

Not moving just selling a property.

POPPYOSCAR

westv wrote: »

Thousands to the EA
Hundreds to the conveyancer
Quibble over £70 or so for a passport?

No estate agent involved.
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Not quibbling over the cost, just wondered if it would be neccessay

POPPYOSCAR

davidmcn wrote: »

What "paperwork"? If this is for the solicitors' own purposes, why don't they know whether or not your ID is acceptable?


There aren't any generally-applicable rules, each organisation will have their own policies about what constitutes acceptable ID.


Their other posts suggest they are moving.

What other posts?

Never said at anytime we are moving.

AnotherJoe

POPPYOSCAR wrote: »

No estate agent involved.
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Not quibbling over the cost, just wondered if it would be necessary

It is if the organization wanting the photo ID deem it is, otherwise, it isn't

POPPYOSCAR

AnotherJoe wrote: »

It is if the organization wanting the photo ID deem it is, otherwise, it isn't

Dropped all the paperwork in to solicitors today and they took copies of the paper licences so will see what happens next.

AdrianC

POPPYOSCAR wrote: »

Dropped all the paperwork in to solicitors today and they took copies of the paper licences so will see what happens next.

It's really down to what your solicitors determine is necessary to satisfy money laundering regulations.

To be honest, if you've got a sufficiently broad financial life to have investment properties, then I'm more surprised that you don't come across this problem regularly. I've just had to prove my identity to get money from one financial institution - not just a copy of my photo ID and separate proof of address, but both certified by somebody on a VERY short list of acceptable jobs - and even then they only count that for two years...

The only people who haven't already moved to photocard licences are those whose licence is unchanged since before 1998, including any address change, and who are under 70. That's a relatively small number, and getting smaller rapidly. A figure of 8.7m was being quoted when the paper counterpart was withdrawn in 2015, out of a total of 46.4m - less than 20% - but that will include a lot of people with long-forgotten unused licences, or who have died but DVLA haven't been notified. And then there's two more years of people moving over because of address changes or 70th birthdays - or simply realising how useful it is as a form of ID...

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/no-more-paper-counterpart-to-the-photocard-driving-licence-will-save-the-taxpayer-millions-each-year

POPPYOSCAR

AdrianC wrote: »

It's really down to what your solicitors determine is necessary to satisfy money laundering regulations.

To be honest, if you've got a sufficiently broad financial life to have investment properties, then I'm more surprised that you don't come across this problem regularly. I've just had to prove my identity to get money from one financial institution - not just a copy of my photo ID and separate proof of address, but both certified by somebody on a VERY short list of acceptable jobs - and even then they only count that for two years...

The only people who haven't already moved to photocard licences are those whose licence is unchanged since before 1998, including any address change, and who are under 70. That's a relatively small number, and getting smaller rapidly. A figure of 8.7m was being quoted when the paper counterpart was withdrawn in 2015, out of a total of 46.4m - less than 20% - but that will include a lot of people with long-forgotten unused licences, or who have died but DVLA haven't been notified. And then there's two more years of people moving over because of address changes or 70th birthdays - or simply realising how useful it is as a form of ID...

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/no-more-paper-counterpart-to-the-photocard-driving-licence-will-save-the-taxpayer-millions-each-year

We have managed so far without photo ID.

Our paper licences have always been enough.

Having not purchased or sold a property for some time we wondered if it was now a legal requirement.

We are in no hurry anyway, a builder is buying it so there is no chain and if we do have to get passports it should not be a problem.

chappers

AdrianC wrote: »

Hardly onerous. If you have a passport, it can be done online - and it's minimal cost. £17, once a decade. £1.70/year. 3p/week.

Encouraging people to be so frivolous with money is hardly MSE is it , shame on you.

POPPYOSCAR wrote: »

We have managed so far without photo ID.

Our paper licences have always been enough.

Having not purchased or sold a property for some time we wondered if it was now a legal requirement.

We are in no hurry anyway, a builder is buying it so there is no chain and if we do have to get passports it should not be a problem.

Just the way things have moved on I suppose, once upon a time a birth certificate was deemed the best for of ID you could have.