As of 2002, it has been compulsory to register any property being purchased, gifted, transferred, mortgaged or leased with the Land Registry.
Registering your property or land at the Land Registry means that the Land Registry will hold all the relevant information for your property or land. All the Land Registry information is now held digitally with the Land Registry’s online services. This means that once the property/land is registered with the Land Registry, the pre-historic Title Deeds are no longer required to prove your ownership of the same.
If your property or land is unregistered with the Land Registry, you will be required to provide your Conveyancer with the original bundle of Title Deeds provided to you when you purchased the property, in order that you can sell, transfer, assent or remortgage a property.
The benefits of registering your property or land with the Land Registry is that should you ever misplace, or destroy the Deeds to the property/land, this will not have an impact on any Conveyancing transaction that you wish to proceed with. If the Title Deeds were ever misplaced or destroyed, the reconstruction of the Title can be costly and time consuming.
As from 2002, when you purchase, transfer, assent or remortgage a property, your Conveyancer will then register this with the Land Registry to ensure that they store the correct information for the property, boundaries, your details, and any lenders details that may be required.
If your property is currently unregistered and you would like to look into registering this with the Land Registry, Timms can assist you with this to ensure a smooth process is carried out.
Please feel free to contact the team on freephone 0800 011 666 or via email at legal@timms-law.com.
For more information about Conveyancing, visit our webpage here.
