Land Registry Document

Fr0dders · 6 Nov 2010 at 23:44

My neighbour asked me to witness their signature on a "land registry document" earlier.

All i needed to verify was that it was them who was making the signature, and not somebody else so didnt get to find out what it was related to.

Any ideas ? Are they moving ? Theres no for sale sign outside ...and their property doesnt appear to be on rightmove.

Beerbaron · 6 Nov 2010 at 23:47

was this "land registry document" you didnt see the deeds to your house?

Biohazard · 6 Nov 2010 at 23:47

They've just suckered you into being guarantor on a £100,000 loan and you've just put your house and gran up as collateral. AND given up your power of attorney.

Congrats

Fr0dders · 6 Nov 2010 at 23:53

Biohazard said:
They've just suckered you into being guarantor on a £100,000 loan and you've just put your house and gran up as collateral. AND given up your power of attorney.

Congrats

nice try

I only signed the witness box

Cosimo · 6 Nov 2010 at 23:57

MrLOL said:
nice try

I only signed the witness box

Your signature has now been copied onto the six pages they didn't show you.

Biohazard · 6 Nov 2010 at 23:58

onion paper

your V5 was under there too

Cosimo · 7 Nov 2010 at 00:08

Biohazard said:
onion paper

your V5 was under there too

Do want to tell him about the electronic fund transfer?

DBT85 · 7 Nov 2010 at 00:13

Its possible that they had a dispute with someone over some land and its finally got sorted. Maybe the registry plans said that the council owned a part of the land that they shouldn't.

When we put our offer in on our house in March '09 we expected to be in in a few months. 9 months later the contracts were exchanged simply because of a land registry problem. When the house was sold by the council in 1970 to the then tenants a 5ft wide strip wasn't marked on the land registry plans as belonging to the house and so remained officially in the hands of the council (the fact that it encompassed the front garden, back garden, outside toilet, coal store and shed meant nothing!).

Over the next 30 years the council sold it to the the housing trust and then it took forever to get anything done as these people only do stuff on certain days. If you miss the cutoff point it can be weeks before they are next planning to deal with it. It didn't help that at first the council and the housing trust refused to even consider it until the solicitors demanded that they actually come and look at the property. As soon as they did that things sped up from "glacial" to "snail like"

Cybermyk · 7 Nov 2010 at 00:30

Could be a divorce, one leaving puts a charge on the document where the other can't sell the property until they pay them off.

Fuzz · 7 Nov 2010 at 00:34

Don't be so bloody nosey.

Destination · 7 Nov 2010 at 08:46

They might have bought out their ground rent.

AtticusFinch · 7 Nov 2010 at 08:54

They might have put the property in to trucst, they might have been granting or removing an easement over the property, they might have been removing a caveat on the property, they might have been placing a caveat on the proporty, there would be an accewss rights issue which needs resolution, there may have been a defect in title of some sort which has been rectified et al......