Father passed away leaving house to mother, but, cant find House Deeds

cu3ed · 21 Jul 2025 at 12:51

As per title. We have checked with banks etc to see if they have been kept/ archived and with the solicitor that held my father will, but nothing has turned up.
I have tried my best searching for some good advice but just keep getting spam links to register companies and the like.

Would anyone have any advice about how to check or if theirs a way to find or renew the deeds to a home. The morgage was paid off long time ago.

ttaskmaster · 21 Jul 2025 at 13:05

HM Land Registry?

Thekwango · 21 Jul 2025 at 13:27

sorry to hear of your loss - as above, land registry is where you want to reach out to. they'll be able to advise how to go about getting a new set of docs.

cu3ed · 21 Jul 2025 at 13:31

Thanks guys, I went their website but honestly not clued up on this kind of thing. Guess theirs no reason till I had to. Ill just get a time to call them and sort out what's what. I kept being directed like I had to by a day pass to go look for them etc.

Jim99 · 21 Jul 2025 at 13:46

As I recall you can purchase copies of deeds from Land Reg for £10 or so. For any property you like. YOu should be able to do it online.

Just check that you're on the genuine site and not a fake / middleman.

cu3ed · 21 Jul 2025 at 13:51

Jim99 said:
As I recall you can purchase copies of deeds from Land Reg for £10 or so. For any property you like. YOu should be able to do it online.

Just check that you're on the genuine site and not a fake / middleman.

Yea this is what got me...my god what happened to search engines lol. Was nearly purely middle companies saying that can do it for you etc.

rp2000 · 21 Jul 2025 at 14:01

cu3ed said:
Yea this is what got me...my god what happened to search engines lol. Was nearly purely middle companies saying that can do it for you etc.

Get information about property and land

How to search for information about property and land in England and Wales - find out who owns it, how much was paid for it, how to get a scanned copy of the deeds and how to check the property boundaries

www.gov.uk

This is the correct one. I recently got the £7 online copy for a family member and it was quite easy.

My commiserations for your loss

rp2000

cu3ed · 21 Jul 2025 at 14:06

rp2000 said:
Get information about property and land

How to search for information about property and land in England and Wales - find out who owns it, how much was paid for it, how to get a scanned copy of the deeds and how to check the property boundaries

www.gov.uk

This is the correct one. I recently got the £7 online copy for a family member and it was quite easy.

My commiserations for your loss

rp2000

Nice one fella thank you very much!

Nigel Kingdon · 24 Jul 2025 at 09:13

For reference only official UK government bodies can use the .gov.uk address.

Hodders · 24 Jul 2025 at 10:15

If you already have a solicitor helping with probate (you may be doing this yourself) ask them to check if the title is registered. If it is then the deeds are just bits of paper and are not needed to convey the property to a new owner - this is my understanding anyway!

robj20 · 24 Jul 2025 at 10:51

Hodders said:
If you already have a solicitor helping with probate (you may be doing this yourself) ask them to check if the title is registered. If it is then the deeds are just bits of paper and are not needed to convey the property to a new owner - this is my understanding anyway!

Deeds can hold some very useful extra information. Ours have more detailed information on who is responsible for each boundary. Land registry is very basic.

Hodders · 24 Jul 2025 at 11:27

robj20 said:
Deeds can hold some very useful extra information. Ours have more detailed information on who is responsible for each boundary. Land registry is very basic.

Agree, those details are great to have. I guess my answer was aimed at the OP's immediate concern.