Garage not on Title Plan

Sachs

Sounds messy.
"I have spoke to our solicitors and they advised that the title now needs to be changed to the current vendors and all is well to proceed." 
That makes it sound like a bit of paperwork shuffling but do the current vendors actually even legally own the garage? If they do they haven't registered it with the land registry so presumably they will either need to find prove they own it or apply for some kind of adverse possession.

pinkteapot

Sachs said:

Sounds messy.
"I have spoke to our solicitors and they advised that the title now needs to be changed to the current vendors and all is well to proceed." 
That makes it sound like a bit of paperwork shuffling but do the current vendors actually even legally own the garage? If they do they haven't registered it with the land registry so presumably they will either need to find prove they own it or apply for some kind of adverse possession.

It sounds like the garage is still in the name of the previous owner, rather than OP's vendor. Wouldn't that need the previous owner's agreement/signature to have transferred to the vendor?!

davidmcn

Before you worry about how long the LR will take, somebody needs to find the previous owners and get them to sign - has any progress been made with that yet?

quotememiserable

I also had to get something changed on the land registry recently, and the queue is currently 4 to 6 months! My solicitor was able to get them to push it up the queue after he proved there was an ongoing sale involed, and in the event it took about 6 weeks.

Vaish2020

davidmcn said:

Before you worry about how long the LR will take, somebody needs to find the previous owners and get them to sign - has any progress been made with that yet?

According to the solicitors this should've been done when they initially bought the house, they appear to have all paperwork intact but LR wasn't updated on the second title. The vendors are really helpful and dug up all the paperwork and deeds. They found the original file from the sale of the garage, and planning permissions, Office copy entries of the title register and plan and Copy of the transfer from 1988.