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Land Registry questions

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  • da_rule
    da_rule Posts: 3,618 Forumite
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    Abbicarbs wrote: »
    Thanks for this. My solicitor is an expensive conveying solicitor who have many sites in the north I thought that this wouldn’t be a problem for them. They are saying elements of the property are freehold and some are leasehold so I presume the paper documents will need to be ordered on the bit that’s leasehold? Any questions I can ask them to make sense of this?

    Thanks for your help

    I think you just need a better explanation from them. In your first post you said some parts were registered and some were unregistered. Now you’re saying some parts are freehold and some parts are leasehold.

    What exactly are you buying, is it really a mix a registered and unregistered freehold and leasehold? As that could take some time to unpick.
  • Tiglet2
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    DelphiniumBlue It does sound as though your father and stepmother originally bought the property as Tenants in Common or, alternatively, your stepmother owned the property but decided to transfer some equity to your father (Tax/IHT/CGT reasons?) by adding him to the title. On your stepmother's death her Will would give her % portion to her son (your stepbrother). There was probably a stipulation in your stepmother's Will that your father had a right to reside in the property until his death. Any clauses regarding maintenance of the property would be in the Will rather than in the Deed of Trust. Can you obtain a copy of that Will from public records? Your father's portion was still in his ownership (to be left to the beneficiaries named in his Will on his death).

    Does the title contain a restriction along the lines of “No disposition by a sole proprietor...”? If it does contain a restriction such as this, then the property was owned as Tenants in Common. Unfortunately, without a copy of the Deed of Trust, it is impossible to know what percentages the Tenants in Common was held.

    If there is no restriction on the title, the property was owned as Joint Tenants and then the property would pass to the remaining registered proprietor, i.e. stepbrother. You could enquire of the Land Registry if they do still have a copy of the Transfer document (TR1), which would show the percentage split of the Tenants in Common. Another way might be for the executor to contact the solicitor who your father and stepmother used when they purchased the property to see if they still have any paperwork, though of course they may not have any information going back as far as 2004.

    I really don't think the stepbrother can claim several thousands of pounds for maintenance without providing a copy of the Deed of Trust to the executor or your solicitor and to be honest I fail to see how the stepbrother can sell without producing the Deed and obtaining the signature of the executor of your father's estate on the transfer documents.
  • Thanks Da Rule

    Looking back on my emails now it’s defiantly about some parts being registered and some not. She says

    “this particular matter is slightly complicated because of the registered and unregistered elements so I need to be sure all is in order so that I don’t have any issues with post completion registration formalities” then goes on to say that the land registry may have to order files because of the age of the house and the copies aren’t held electronically which is a presume is the registered piece of land.

    I wana know how long it’s going to take to get the paper copies and if it’s going to be a while can we expedite due to the house we are in being unsuitable for my disabled son?

    Thanks
    ACB
  • da_rule
    da_rule Posts: 3,618 Forumite
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    I’ve rarely had to wait longer than a week for documents from the Land Registry (assuming your solicitor has access to the portal and isn’t making paper applications).
  • Land_Registry
    Land_Registry Posts: 5,765 Organisation Representative
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    Hello, I recently found out that my father, who died in December 2017, has his name on the Official Registry of Title for a property I had no knowledge that he owned. All I knew was, after my step mother died in 1995, the house was left to my stepbrother and my father was allowed to continue living in the property for as long as he needed to. The stepbrother put the house up for sale after my father's death. Last month, I checked the Land Registry to see if the ownership had changed to find out if the house had been sold. I was surprised to find that the proprietors are listed as my father and his stepson on the deeds. I then contacted the Estate Agent who said the property had been sold, so I do not understand why their names were still on the Deeds at the Land Registry. Could this be because the new owner, assuming there is one, has not had the Deeds updated yet? I applied for an Official Copy of the register of title and it still lists my father and stepson as owners on 20 March 2019! Also, I note my father's name was added to the Title in 2004. My father did not tell me about this, I knew nothing until last month. My father was living in, and looking after, the property while his stepson lived in a house elsewhere, and always insisted the house was not his. Please can you tell me why someone, in my father's situation, would have their name added to the property Deeds?

    Whilst the registered details and forms/deeds submitted may help in some respects they are not going to answer all your Qs and may simply create more.

    The will(s) and Deed of Trust are more likely to orovide Answers although as others have posted the stepbrother may be the only one who knows what happened and why.

    Families/beneficiaries deal with these things in a variety of ways so when your stepmother died for whatever reason(s) the property was transferred. The register refers to the legal ownership though and the interests you are really referring to now are in the beneficial ownerships so again the will(s)/Deed of trust are if greater importance.

    If the property has been sold in recent weeks then the purchaser may have yet to apply to register it. I'd suggest setting up a Property Alert so you are notified when an application is made although it won't provide any answers but at least you know. And if it has been sold then any beneficial interest you have could then be in the proceeds of sale?

    Tiglet2 refers to TIC and JTs and the registered details. But a lack if a (form A) restriction does not mean they were JTs for example. Their wills or Deed of Trust may have made them so but that does not mean that a form A restriction was registered or that any % shares stipulated in any registration.

    It woukd be interesting to know what was and is registered though as if he has sold it and there was a form A restriction how did he get round it? Do you have the title number?
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  • Land_Registry
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    Abbicarbs wrote: »
    Thanks Da Rule

    Looking back on my emails now it’s defiantly about some parts being registered and some not. She says

    “this particular matter is slightly complicated because of the registered and unregistered elements so I need to be sure all is in order so that I don’t have any issues with post completion registration formalities” then goes on to say that the land registry may have to order files because of the age of the house and the copies aren’t held electronically which is a presume is the registered piece of land.

    I wana know how long it’s going to take to get the paper copies and if it’s going to be a while can we expedite due to the house we are in being unsuitable for my disabled son?

    Thanks
    ACB

    Unfortunately there's insufficient detail to offer any realistic timescales here. It reads as if they have made enquiries only and if that means we need to check paper files then that only adds a few days to any delay in responding.

    If there's an unregistered part then it's all a Q of whether the seller has title to it so if they are enquiringly if us it could be that they are claiming it should have been included as registered but wasn't. However your mention of FH and LH may muddy that point and mean it's something else entirely.

    The issues though are pre-completion though so I imagine your conveyancer is trying to get you to completing rather than having to say to them 'you sort it and then we'll complete' as if that happens then there will be an extra delay. You can only expedite an application to register and you don't have that yet.
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  • Hi,

    We are currently buying a house and are waiting for an adverse possession application to be completed. The application was submitted in January and we were told in February by our solicitor that the Land Registry had replied to the Seller and their solicitor with some requisitions (we have not been told what these are). Unfortunately, our solicitor cannot update us any further and furthermore, we do not know if the application has been expedited. Our second mortgage offer runs out at the end of June so we’re starting to get a bit worried that we won’t complete before then (we first had our offer accepted in May last year).

    Is there any way we can find out about the application’s progression, whether it has been expedited and what the likely outcome will be?

    Also what are the normal timescales for these sorts of applications?

    Many thanks
  • Land_Registry
    Land_Registry Posts: 5,765 Organisation Representative
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    Hi,

    We are currently buying a house and are waiting for an adverse possession application to be completed. The application was submitted in January and we were told in February by our solicitor that the Land Registry had replied to the Seller and their solicitor with some requisitions (we have not been told what these are). Unfortunately, our solicitor cannot update us any further and furthermore, we do not know if the application has been expedited. Our second mortgage offer runs out at the end of June so we’re starting to get a bit worried that we won’t complete before then (we first had our offer accepted in May last year).

    Is there any way we can find out about the application’s progression, whether it has been expedited and what the likely outcome will be?

    Also what are the normal timescales for these sorts of applications?

    Many thanks

    What's the provisional title number?
    If requisitions have been raised and as yet not replied to then the timescale is in the lodging solicitor's hands
    If it is an adverse possession then we would normally need to carry out a site inspection/survey
    And potentially made wider checks including contacting neighbouring or affected property owners
    Such decisions are not made until the previous step has been reached and passed and each stage, IF the application has been expedited, is normally completed within a 10 working day period.
    So if you are at stage 1 and requisitions have been raised there is still potentially some way to go.
    Expedition helps but it does not negate the need for a site visit or the wider checks as mentioned.
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  • Thanks for your reply. The current title plan of the property is CU310642. This is the title plan that was granted last year to initially register the house for our purchase but does not include the land that the seller has submitted the current adverse possession application for. Is this what you meant by provisional title number? Or will the seller have been given a provisional title number when she submitted the application for adverse possession?

    Thanks,
  • Land_Registry
    Land_Registry Posts: 5,765 Organisation Representative
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    Thanks for your reply. The current title plan of the property is CU310642. This is the title plan that was granted last year to initially register the house for our purchase but does not include the land that the seller has submitted the current adverse possession application for. Is this what you meant by provisional title number? Or will the seller have been given a provisional title number when she submitted the application for adverse possession?

    Thanks,

    It's not the provisional title they will have been given on receipt of their application. But it does enable me to search for details.

    The provisional title is CU313062 and that application has been expedited and is currently ongoing with communications between ourselves and the lodging solicitor.
    So it has yet to pass the consideration stages so you'll need to rely on the solicitor (and your own legal advice) for the specific details involved
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