House Purchase - Land Registry Fee Of Over £3000 - lol wut!

[PippaJumper34]

Greetings all

I’m looking to see if anyone has come across this when buying a house…

So, I’ve just received the breakdown of fees for the house I’m purchasing from my solicitor (bungalow that was built approx. 1983 and the previous owner passed away)

The ‘Land Registry Fees’ are £135 (which is normal)

Then there is a ‘land Registry fees for official copy entries’ fee for £3010.00 !!!

This is my fourth house purchase and I’ve never had this charge before. I’ve searched the net but can’t find any info on what or why I’m being charged this?

Obviously I’ll speak to my solicitor about this but before I’m bamboozled by solicitor speak I wondered if anyone else had come across this whopper charge?? There are loads of people going through house sales at present. Is this genuine or not??!?

Any ideas?

Thanks
Pippa

Is it something like stamp duty and they have just labelled it wrong?

It's wrong. It's either a typo or includes additional costs on top of OCEs.

Office copies are generally £3 I think so it’s probably a typo

Is the title you're buying unregistered??

It'll be a typo, OCEs for a register or plan are £3.

Thanks all. Yeah i'm hoping that it is a typo now. The house must already be registered as someones been living it it for years. I've since found a land registry calculator and for "official copies" it states a charge of £3!

Houses didn’t have to be registered until the late 90s and so it is possible that it was unregistered but even if that was the case I wouldn’t expect investigation of title of a house built in the 80s to cost £3000 and you would have been told about incurring that sort of cost.

Its £3 for office copies and a typo IMO

Although I’d expect at least £6 generally for the register and the plan

Did you get to the bottom of this @PippaJumper34?