Q:Hi all,
Well the question is in the header, are house deeds worth anything at all? Are they worth the paper they are written on?
I am aware that duplicates can be requested from the land registry, so what is the real value of the originals?
Before you reply to this thread you should have a read of the following
http://www.consolidation-debt.tk/showthread.html?t=1051165
Leo
Q:i am currently saleing my house,,found a buyer all going well till my solictor came across bit of problem,,which is when i bought the house the previous owners done all rite things but according to the land registry there is an existing amount of ￡0 yes(thats rite ￡0 )outstanding due to the land registry did not wipe this off the system paper wise but did do electronically wise…so anyway my current buyers will not sign anyhting till they have this in writting that there is no outstanding mo
Q:does anybody know why a property that was sold in 2003 would not be showing on the land registry search?
Q:Hi people, hope there is someone out there that can provide some useful advice with a big problem I have with Persimmon.
We moved into one of their new builds a couple of years back (yes, this has been a nightmare for 2 years!!). Persimmon supplied my solicitor with a set of boundary drawings once titles were completed. We signed the plans then the solicitor forwarded them off the the Land Register of Scotland. Good times….
Around 6-8 months later, Persimmon sent my sol
Q:I'm about to rent a flat with a friend and my OH. In fact, we get the keys on Saturday. I am currently a blithering mess. Not that anything has gone wrong, I'm just being hidiously neurotic about it all. Anyway, so as I was fervently check the Land Registry for the property our flat is in I happen across this legal mumbo jumbo:
A: Caution Property Register
Containing a description of the legal estate to which the caution relates.
1 (18.07.2007) Caution agains
Q:Hiya
I need to prove home ownership … (technically it's still the BS but YKWIM)
I have pulled out my last correspondence from sol, and it is a huge envelope that starts off with ''… title is complete & enclosed is title deeds …''.
But now what are the title deeds because I can't see a doc that says title deeds at the top.
We have:
Land Registry OS1R Form with 12 pages, sec A is property register, sec B is pr
Q:My friend has sold a house to one of those sell quick companies and was told by a solicitor that they'd been getting a load of complaints about the deeds still having the old persons names on it (think its being rented to the dad [complicated split up ]. (thus being liable for certain things)
Would the land registry be the place to go (costs ￡3) or is there a free lookup, also is the land registry uptodate? or is there a delay on it?
Incidently if it was true could th
Q:Hi.
My mum died 3 weeks ago and she had a joint will with my dad.All her assets which was only about ￡4000 goes to my dad.I assume that the house is then all his(they paid off the loan).
We were talking to somebody and they said asked if we have changed the names on the Land Registry over to my dad as it is was in joint names as he said if anything happened to my dad in a few years we would be hard to prove who owned what and a lot of paperwork.
My dad had a brief word with a le
Q:My parents wish to amend the ownership of their (rented out) property from one name into joint names.
There is no mortgage, and they have the physical deeds in their possession
They have been told by a friend that only a solicitor can deal with this? My mum has made enquiries at a local solicitors office and they want to charge ￡400 PLUS land registry fees.
I have looked at the land registry site but can't seem to find the answer
Help anyone?
Q:When a purchaser is offered incentives by the developer (i.e. 5% deposit paid, SDLT paid, legal fees paid, etc.) the actual purchase price is reduced and it is this reduced figure that should be registered at the Land Registry and the incentives also informed to the lender.
I cannot find any information on which figure should be notified to HM Revenue & Customs when paying SDLT. Presumably it should be the reduced price?