Pending Applications Against the Title

christinal12345

Hello, we’re currently in the process of purchasing a property. We have been told by the vendors estate agents that there are pending applications against the title. Therefore unable to issue deeds and draft contracts at the moment. 

Does anyone know a rough timeline on how this takes to get sorted as our solicitor has been unable to start on our case yet as they haven’t received the legal paperwork as this would be part of it. 

Starting to worry as this is holding everything up at the moment. 

Thanks for any help or advice. 

silvercar

If they apply for the applications to be expedited they would be done quickly, @Land_Registry often talks of 2 weeks if everything is in order, longer if there are queries.

user1977

It might be a reason to hold up exchange/completion but no need to hold off from starting work in the meantime on draft contracts or examining what the title currently looks like - you should of course be getting advice from your solicitor, not the (vendor's) estate agent.

Land_Registry

christinal12345 said:

Hello, we’re currently in the process of purchasing a property. We have been told by the vendors estate agents that there are pending applications against the title. Therefore unable to issue deeds and draft contracts at the moment. 

Does anyone know a rough timeline on how this takes to get sorted as our solicitor has been unable to start on our case yet as they haven’t received the legal paperwork as this would be part of it. 

Starting to worry as this is holding everything up at the moment. 

Thanks for any help or advice. 

Much depends on what these pending applications are but as posted nothing to stop the conveyancing process itself. 

Expedition is always an option but I’d be asking for more information about what all these pending applications are 

christinal12345

Thanks for all of the replies. I have dug a bit deeper and found out that when the current owners remortgaged a few years ago the solicitor they used at the time didn’t notify land registry either incorrectly or not at all. This is being expedited so hopefully won’t take much longer. I have asked and asked and apparently none of the conveyancing can be started until this is sorted which is very frustrating!

christinal12345

Land_Registry said:

christinal12345 said:

Hello, we’re currently in the process of purchasing a property. We have been told by the vendors estate agents that there are pending applications against the title. Therefore unable to issue deeds and draft contracts at the moment. 

Does anyone know a rough timeline on how this takes to get sorted as our solicitor has been unable to start on our case yet as they haven’t received the legal paperwork as this would be part of it. 

Starting to worry as this is holding everything up at the moment. 

Thanks for any help or advice. 

Much depends on what these pending applications are but as posted nothing to stop the conveyancing process itself. 

Expedition is always an option but I’d be asking for more information about what all these pending applications are 

christinal12345 said:

Thanks for all of the replies. I have dug a bit deeper and found out that when the current owners remortgaged a few years ago the solicitor they used at the time didn’t notify land registry either incorrectly or not at all. This is being expedited so hopefully won’t take much longer. I have asked and asked and apparently none of the conveyancing can be started until this is sorted which is very frustrating!

@Land_Registry the above issue is still ongoing and our vendors solicitors has not been able to issue legal paperwork due to this. We are being told the issue has been expedited but this was over a month ago now. Is there anyway I can contact someone for it to be looked into please?

Land_Registry

You can contact us  https://www.gov.uk/guidance/contact-hm-land-registry