Anyone bought unregistered land?

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How long did the process take and were there any problems?

I posted below about the delay to our purchase and being worried we will lose our buyer. I spoke to our lawyer today and they say that there is an error on the title deeds and the sellers lawyer needs to check with the land registry that this won't present any problems when they come to register us as owners. It is three weeks since they asked for this. Does anyone have any expereince of how long something like this might take if the LR say there is a problem? Nobody can tell me if we are talking about two weeks or two months and tbh if it going to be months then we may have to pull out.

No is the short answer but the people who were originally buying ours were selling unregistered land. They were informed they would need a Land Registry surveyor to come out and that this could take a few months. Prior to being told about the need for a land survey they were told 'about 6 weeks' for the administrative process of registering the land.

I have absolutely no idea if this is standard and we had another offer in the meantime so pulled out.

Sorry, that's probably not very helpful.....

Our house (Victorian) we bought from the builder who built it in 1899 so it hadn't been registered with land registry we first saw the house first couple of November made an offer a week later and we moved in the first couple of days of March so around 4 months however Christmas was in that period which slowed it down.

Thanks. Going to have a breakdown if it is going to be months!

The lady we bought our last house from had inherited it in the 50s, but it had never been registered in her name. It took 5 months to sort it out.

Oh no. It has ready been five months. I couldn't do another five!

Last year I sold a house which had been in the family for three generations and was not registered.

It would have been possible to sell it on the deeds, if the previous solicitor had not lost them and untruthfully claimed that I had collected them.

So I had to get it registered using information from old photocopies, and my sworn declaration that the boundaries shown were correct and had not been altered since I were nobbut a nipper.

When the previously solicitor eventually found the original deeds which they had mis-filed, the house registration had already been completed.

Can you guess why I changed solicitors?

Our sellers moved out and we rented the house from them until the deeds were sorted. Being in on time was a condition of our purchase as I was 36 weeks pregnant and we had sold our flat.

Generally in Scotland there is no "chain" - you move on the date agreed and if your purchase isn't ready then tough. It makes the whole process so much faster but meant we could have been without somewhere to live.