How do you find out who owns a property or piece of land?

[nymphadora]

I'm eyeing up a falled down building across the road. Think it was a shed type thing. Everything round here is listed on in a conservation area so doubt they'd be able to put a house on it but I think if it was rebuilt as it looks like it was it would make a 1&1/2 width garage for my car & storage!

Doubt we could afford it but would be nice to know!

the land registry?

Contact the Land Registry. You can look up who owns a piece of land on their website too but sometimes you need to go and look at their physical records in their offices.

If the building has been purchased/sold since 1927 then the land registery should show who owns it.

You can contact your council as an abandoned building - you need the district council for this and as you live in an area with listed building and this is falling down they will be or should be happy to track down who owns it to get it sorted again.

thanks. We saw a tractor there about 2 years ago but nothing since.

Never seen a website with openining hours before! Will try tomorrow Thanks :)

Its a Govt website - says it all really.

That website now win crappest website ever. Spent 40 mins analysing a aerial photograph trying to distinguish between houses to pin point this piece of land. There are then 2 either side of a house but can't tell the difference( one says attached to , other says adjacent to) so don't know which one it is. Register to find out both & it sends me back to the start

I didn't realise there was anything worse than the jobcentre one

I suggest you ring the nearest Land Registry office and explain the issue. They have a manual search process too - not just the website.

Thanks