Land Registry not updated on death of Joint Tenants, now last remaining joint tenant has died.

birdbarnes

My Uncle died last year.  

Both my Uncle, his father (my grandfather) and grandfathers brother in law (my great Uncle) jointly purchased their council house in 1982 under the right to buy scheme.   

Land registry title document has all three as the owners. 

Grandfather died in 1996. (no wife just two children)

Grandfathers Brother in law (my great uncle) died in 2018 (no wife or children)

My uncle died last year. (No wife of children)

Land registry was not updated on the death of my grandfather or Grandfathers brother in law (my great uncle and my uncles uncle).

Am I able to apply to have my grandfather and Great uncle removed from the title deeds by sending in their death certificates.  Then it will just remain in my uncles name.  

(Letters of administration approved for my sister and I, who are also the beneficiaries of my uncles estate as he died without a will)

Are we then able to sell the house as is out intention to dispose of the asset and then distribute the estate appropriately? 

OR can it all be done in one go during the house sale without causing any big delays? 

If straight forward I am happy to do this myself rather than need to pay for solicitors.  I have completed the Probate application/IHT myself.  Then just pay the solicitors for the conveyancing of the property once it is in my Uncles sole name. 

Thanks in advance for any advice before I reach out to a solicitor. 

Flugelhorn

I sold a property under probate where the land reg had not been changed after the death of the first of the couple. I gave my solicitor the death cert of that person and all the changes were done as part of the sale of the property - got the feeling it took very little extra time and there was no additional cost 

NannaH

You just need death certificates and then letters of administration,  the Conveyancers will do the rest.  They simply change the ownership on the sale of the property. 
We sold an unregistered property, we had the deeds and had to provide Death certs and wills  for my Parents in law. 

Mojisola

birdbarnes said:

Both my Uncle, his father (my grandfather) and grandfathers brother in law (my great Uncle) jointly purchased their council house in 1982 under the right to buy scheme.   

Land registry title document has all three as the owners. 

Grandfather died in 1996. (no wife just two children)

Grandfathers Brother in law (my great uncle) died in 2018 (no wife or children)

My uncle died last year. (No wife of children)

Land registry was not updated on the death of my grandfather or Grandfathers brother in law (my great uncle and my uncles uncle).

Am I able to apply to have my grandfather and Great uncle removed from the title deeds by sending in their death certificates.  Then it will just remain in my uncles name.

You don't need to do this - it will cost money and take time.

With the letters of administration and all three death certificates, you can market the house and the conveyancing solicitor will put the title directly into the names of the purchasers.