Title Reference at English/Welsh Land Registry “AA” ??

John_Pierpoint

I have come upon a home & garden with a title in the format AA123456, when usually the title is in the format XX1234567, where are XX is two letters that relate to the geographical area, such as SY for Surrey, the expensive London home county.

What does AA mean?

[Personally, I would pay the £6 to print the summary of what the Land Registry knows before even looking at a property to buy. Look out for second mortgages and restrictions on what might happen next door etc. Not to mention potential divorces]

user1977

I doubt it matters, but where (roughly) is the property? Are you saying it isn’t similar to neighbouring titles?

daveyjp

Very old registered titles may not follow the modern coding system.

user1977

daveyjp said:

Very old registered titles may not follow the modern coding system.

Makes sense. This FOI response includes the (current) prefixes used (which don't include AA):

https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/format_of_title_numbers

John_Pierpoint

It is a recent registration. Local properties have a SX prefix.
Thanks for the whatdotheyknow reference, I have checked and at the time of the freedom of information request the AA prefix did not exist.
The information one gets for £6 seems to make sense, but a self evident long established “private” right of access is not documented. [It appears ok on the large scale Ordnance Survey plan based on the 1938 emergency survey, printed in 1947 - and now available at the web site of the National Library of Scotland].
Just for the record, it seems that the bargain price of £6 for a title summary and a plan is planned to increase to £14 after the end of November.

EssexHebridean

I had a feeling that AA is a prefix given to a property which will require a new title number on registration, but which for whatever reason cannot yet have that new number formally attached to it. 

And yes, LR fees increase from December. I’ve not yet looked to see what the increases would be though. 

Land_Registry

Registered titles in England and Wales have evolved over time from the plain numbers (no prefixes) and ZZ for example; through the geographical ones you refer to such as SX (Sussex), K (Kent), NGL (North Greater London) and so on; and in recent years now ones such as YY, TT and AA created as the numbers available re 'old' prefixes have run out.
No geographical attachment as in essence just a title number and unique reference for land and property as always. So if you now have a AA title then that's fine and no hidden issues exist