How long for land registration?

KautoStar

KautoStar

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Hi at xmas myself and my brother completed probate on parents home and the documents were sent for the land registration to be put in our names.

Now my brother is buying my half of the house and has gone through with a mortgage to pay the half to me.

Now a relative who works for the solicitors who did the probate sent the land registration stuff off is saying that it could take 3-6 months for the land registry to be completed and we won’t be able to get the mortgage until then.

But upon reading I’ve seen it normally takes 2 weeks too complete not 3-6 months so I’m wondering now why he has said this and how long did it take in your your experiences to complete the land registration.
 
Its probably 2 weeks for the land registry but up to 5.5 months for the solicitor to actually get round to sending it on in the first place..
 
Tell me about it! I completed on a New Build in August 17. Still waiting on the Land Registry and I need to re-mortgage!
 
Solicitors are so lazy! All the mortgages I've done have dragged on through solicitors being useless. It's even worse when you're buying a house and two different solicitors have to deal with each other, both laying the blame at the other one for why it's taking so long. I'm currently doing a remortgage with a different solicitor and they seem to be on the ball, everything is done online and I can just send photos of documents instead of posting them and things are progressing fairly quickly.
 
Lol at the above comments.

Land Registry turnaround times for straightforward transfers of registered property submitted electronically is around 2 days.

Turnaround times for transfers of part and new leases (i.e new build purchases) and first registrations is up to 6 months.
 
Kemik said:
How is six months acceptable? It's been six months for mine and still waiting.
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Because they are a gov.uk and have nowhere near enough staff? I don't know, I don't work for them.

Why do you "need" to re-mortgage? If there is a good enough reason the Land Registry will expedite applications, normally only for agreed sales etc though. And because so many people have requested this the turnaround for urgent applications has gone up to nearly a month :rolleyes:
 
Skillmister said:
Because they are a gov.uk and have nowhere near enough staff? I don't know, I don't work for them.

Why do you "need" to re-mortgage? If there is a good enough reason the Land Registry will expedite applications, normally only for agreed sales etc though. And because so many people have requested this the turnaround for urgent applications has gone up to nearly a month :rolleyes:
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I "need" to re-mortgage because my fixed rate is running out. If I don't, I pay more.
 
I purchased a property @ auction back in June 2017, still waiting on Land Registry.

Whereas with other properties it's been sorted within a couple of months tops.
 
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