Lease Extension Registration at Land Registry

Jules0606 · 4 July 2019 at 11:39AM

Hi,
I urgently need some advice as my buyer (understandably) will not exchange contracts until my Lease Extension has been registered with Land Registry. This was expedited by my solicitor yesterday.

My vendor is pulling out on 29th July if I have not completed by then and Land Registry informed me today that the Lease Extension had been received as expedited, but may not be registered in 10 days if there are queries.

This has been an exhausting process of continual chasing of the Housing Association and their Solicitor over delay after delay and my children and I are broken-hearted that we could potentially lose the home that we found,and the conveyancing and valuation fees, leaving us back at the start of years of saving to try again.

I also need to find us somewhere to move to urgently, in order not to lose the buyer, who wanted to complete at the beginning of July.

Does anyone have any experience of how long Land Registry usually takes to complete the registration?

Thanks in advance.

Doozergirl · 4 July 2019 at 11:42AM

Jules0606 wrote: »

Hi,
I urgently need some advice as my buyer (understandably) will not exchange contracts until my Lease Extension has been registered with Land Registry. This was expedited by my solicitor yesterday.

My vendor is pulling out on 29th July if I have not completed by then and Land Registry informed me today that the Lease Extension had been received as expedited, but may not be registered in 10 days if there are queries.

This has been an exhausting process of continual chasing of the Housing Association and their Solicitor over delay after delay and my children and I are broken-hearted that we could potentially lose the home that we found,and the conveyancing and valuation fees, leaving us back at the start of years of saving to try again.

I also need to find us somewhere to move to urgently, in order not to lose the buyer, who wanted to complete at the beginning of July.

Does anyone have any experience of how long Land Registry usually takes to complete the registration?

Thanks in advance.

Once it's been expedited, they work quickly.

If there are queries then it's something your solicitor hasn't provided. I used the Land Registry rep thread here to help push it along - they were able to tell me twice when there were queries for our solicitor and I chased them up to reply. It did help massively and I'm really grateful.