Shared Ownership 100% Staircasing Land Register Issue

Bach1922

I am currently in the process of selling my flat, which was purchased through shared ownership. The 100% staircasing was completed back to Nov 2018. The buyer's solicitor has requested to reflect the 100% staircasing on the Land Register. My solicitor asked me to speak to the housing association's solicitor firm who used to deal with the transaction and issued the completion statement back to the time. My question is who should make the change? Is this a complicate issue ( I got 3 completion statements from y solicitor, housing association's solicitor and sales team.)  
I am trying my best to avoid getting housing association's conveyancing firm involved as they delayed my purchase a couple of months when I first purchased the property..

Bach1922

How come I can't even edit my own post? Want to make it more readable..

amandacat

Were you sent a copy of the updated land registry document when you staircased to 100%? 

oldbikebloke

Bach1922 said:

How come I can't even edit my own post? Want to make it more readable..

the "new" forum has a bug that they are not fixing which means the edit button disappears.
The simple solution is to fully exit this thread (eg go back to the main housing board itself) and then return to this thread, at which point the edit button will be visible again 

Bach1922

amandacat said:

Were you sent a copy of the updated land registry document when you staircased to 100%? 

Yes ,i got a Land Transaction Return Certificate but doesn't seem to mention anything about staircasing. 

Tiglet2

A Land Transaction Return Certificate is for the stamp duty you paid.
The updated land registry document refers to the Official Copy of the Register of Title which you can get from Land Registry for £3 here https://eservices.landregistry.gov.uk.  I suspect that the Register was not updated when you staircased to 100% and is something that your previous solicitor should have done.  You do need to chase that solicitor to complete the registration process because without it, your buyer will be unable to proceed to purchase 100% of the property.

Bach1922

Tiglet2 said:

A Land Transaction Return Certificate is for the stamp duty you paid.
The updated land registry document refers to the Official Copy of the Register of Title which you can get from Land Registry for £3 here I suspect that the Register was not updated when you staircased to 100% and is something that your previous solicitor should have done.  You do need to chase that solicitor to complete the registration process because without it, your buyer will be unable to proceed to purchase 100% of the property.

Thank you for your reply ! The solicitor who used to deal with my case has retired and he was a sole trader...I managed to find the memorandum of sales for final staircasing. I am trying to push my current solicitor to do this, but somehow I've also heard that is not compulsory to register this with LR as long as I can provide the memorandum of sales, which proofs the 100% staircasing.. Do you know if my current solicitor is entitled to this at least? 

amandacat

I previously had a shared ownership property which I staircased to 100% which is why I asked about the land registry document. I received an updated copy which removed all previous entries that related to the housing association having any interest in the property eg before I staircased, it said I couldn’t sell without their agreement. Your solicitor should have discussed this with the housing association to agree if this could be removed and arranged to get the land registry document updated. It sounds like this hasn’t been done if their solicitor is querying it. As you can’t go back to your previous solicitor then your current solicitor should be able to sort it. 

Bach1922

So finally my current solicitor agreed to lodge the MOS, which officially removes the restriction from the housing association.. cost me 350 +VAT. I actually find out this myself as well through a call with LR, somehow this takes my solicitor a week..lessons learned, never trying to get cheap on conveyancing, you pay peanuts you get monkey..