![]() ![]() The information is kept on a central register and certain aspects of it are now available and accessible to the public. Registration of deeds is basically the official recording of property ownership in England and Wales. Had it not been for these trigger events to result in registration, properties that had remained in the same family ownership over many years and passed from generation to generation would never had become registered until eventually a sale occurred. Such transactions as mortgages deeds of assent deeds of gift now had to be registered when the deed was completed. The implementation of the Land Registration Act 2002 brought in more trigger events that meant that as well as on a purchase, other transactions required that the property had to be registered. It wasn’t until the 1 st December 1990 that the registration of a property on purchase had to be accomplished and compulsory registration began in the hope that eventually all land in England and Wales would become registered. Until as recently as the 1980’s a house in the UK in certain counties could still be purchased without the need to apply for first registration. Unregistered does not mean the land has no owner it merely means that the land has not changed hands in recent times or dealt with in such a way as would trigger an application for first registration to occur. The remainder is known as “unregistered land”. Registration began in the London area initially and spread throughout England and Wales County by County over the years resulting in around 85% of all property in England and Wales now being registered with the Land Registry. This system was revised by the implementation of the Land Registration Act 1925. The owner of the land would retain a bundle of documents and title deeds to prove their ownership of the property. This bundle of documents formed the title deeds and even today, the public believe that title deeds still consist of lengthy documents with wax seals and ribbons when in fact the system has substantially evolved. These documents are often quite lengthy and protracted and are often difficult to interpret by a layman. ![]() The documents themselves would set out important information including the price of the property, the parties to the deed, any rights conferred, restrictions affecting the property, easements and reservations against the land. ![]() Mortgages were prepared in a similar fashion and these legal documents would then form part of a chain of ownership covering many years. Until the onset of typewriters and more recently computers, when a property was sold the solicitors would hand write the deeds of conveyance to transfer the property or land from the seller to the buyer. Historically, all land in England and Wales was unregistered. In her latest Conveyancing blog Timms Julie Stewart discusses the benefits of registering a property…. ![]()
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