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Property not registered at Land Registry

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Livelovebehappy · 29/12/2022 20:38

Hi, advice needed over something which has caused us so much stress. Briefly, daughter purchased new build in 2019. Split with partner earlier this year. Can no longer afford to live there (her name was solely on the mortgage due to partners poor credit). She put the house up for sale in august. Sold it pretty quickly. It then came to light that her solicitor in 2019 has not registered the property with Land Registry. We contacted the solicitor to request they correct the error and expediate an application with the Land Registry. We have been constantly contacting them for updates, most of which have been ignored. Our current house selling solicitors and the buyers solicitors have been ready to exchange contracts since early November. The week before Xmas the buyer threatened to pull out of the sale. We tried again contacting the solicitor, to find out they have within the last couple of weeks gone into administration. We’ve contacted the Land Registry direct who said they did have an application, but because the solicitor didn’t get back to them with some requested information, the application has been cancelled and we have to start again. Do we need to get another solicitor to do the land registry app, or are we able to use the solicitor we are using our side for the sale? Just don’t understand why our solicitor hasn’t offered to do this anyway from the off if it was an option? Or is it an easy process to do it ourselves - has anyone done this?

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pilates · 29/12/2022 22:46

Could your daughter request her old purchase file and get new solicitors to attend to the registration? Just say you would like to collect the file in person within 7 days. It is very bad not to attend to a registration within a short period of time after completion.

Collaborate · 30/12/2022 09:52

She already has a conveyancing solicitor so she should go through them.

She may also have a financial claim against the firm in administration (they will be covered by insurance) - this could get expensive if the sale is lost and she ends up selling it for a lower price.

fitflopqueen · 30/12/2022 10:12

Use your conveyancing solicitor, we did this just before Xmas, was very quick to register and that was on a 69 year old house being sold.

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