Got probate and transferred father's savings accounts to my mother, but what about the house?

[Deleted User]

Searching the internet with this question all I find is that if they were tenants in common then the house automatically passes to my mother, but how 'automatic' is this?

When my mother comes to sell the house, will it just be a matter of showing my father's death certificate to the buyer (or more likely the buyers solicitor)?

Or do I need to do any bureaucratic procedure now to transfer the house to mother entirely?

Flugelhorn

Do you mean joint tenants? (if they were TiC then it may not go to mother) 

If joint then no need to do anything - my father died over 20 years before mother and on her death I discovered that the registration still had his name on it. I gave probate for mother and death cert for father to my solicitor when I sold the house and they did whatever magic was needed - didn't seem to faze them at all 

BooJewels

Ditto what @Flugelhorn said.  My parents house was sold without the registration having been changed after my Mum passed first - they just needed her death certificate and Dad's Grant of Probate - as required to sell the house.

With my aunt who passed most recently she had already changed the registration, so it was already in her own name, so needed nothing doing other than Probate when it sold.  When my husband passed, I put our house in my own name after a while - no plans to sell it yet.  It was depressingly easy to do - just one A4 form and I think I sent it with a death certificate.  I got a copy of the new registration back after a week or so.

RAS

[Deleted User] said:

Searching the internet with this question all I find is that if they were tenants in common then the house automatically passes to my mother, but how 'automatic' is this?

If they were joint tenants, mother is now the sole tenant. No need to do anything.

If they were tenants in common, what dies the will say about the property?

sheramber

The Land Registry needs to be updated

https://www.gov.uk/update-property-records-someone-dies#:~:text=When a joint owner dies,copy of the death certificate.

Mine was done when I sold the house , 1year after  my husband's death.

If your mother is likely to stay  in the house for some time it might be better t do it now.

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Thanks all, I've found out that my parents house is not registered with the land registry (they moved there in the 1970s), so it needs registering - it looks really complicated: https://www.gov.uk/registering-land-or-property-with-land-registry/register-for-the-first-time, I think I might actually go with a solicitor for this (I was able to do getting probate myself).