No Deeds & No Land Registry entry

user1977

The chances of a Solicitor ( even if they still exist) having property deeds after 55 years are pretty much zero.

I wouldn't say that - they're hardly likely to have binned unregistered deeds.

SVaz

They would if they hadn’t been paid to store them.

The Solicitors who dealt with the conveyancing of my Parents’ house are still going, I had all the original bills from 1971. They told me that they wouldn’t even bother searching their storage vault as nothing was kept beyond 10 years, unless they were paid a storage fee.

My Parents just missed the point where digital deeds became compulsory when taking out/ paying off a mortgage.

My Dad refused to chase up the deeds when alive but terminal, he was adamant that ‘Barclays looked after them’ and wouldn’t even check / let us check. We just assumed that they would be on the LR, just as ours are, we had no idea that unregistered deeds were even a thing at that time.

user1977

They would if they hadn’t been paid to store them.

The Solicitors who dealt with the conveyancing of my Parents’ house are still going, I had all the original bills from 1971. They told me that they wouldn’t even bother searching their storage vault as nothing was kept beyond 10 years, unless they were paid a storage fee.

Not all solicitors follow the same policy as that firm though. Certainly none of the ones I've worked for have.