Merger

[Adam1964uk]

I've purchased my shared equity house and now own the property 100%. Following completion all he necessary information was sent to Land Registry to register the purchase and to merge my Lease into my new Freehold Title. However, Land Registry discovered that a very small parcel of land at the foot of my garden (other side of my fence) is part of my lease but on unregistered land! I never knew that the land the other side had anything to do with my property! As a result of this they were unable to fully merge the lease into my new freehold title! I now have 2 Titles - one Freehold for the house, parking space, and gardens and the original Leasehold Title for the tiny parcel of land in question! My question is..... will this be a problem when I come to sell the property? Many thanks in anticipation.

I was in this position where there was a landlocked parcel of land between me and next door. Logically it belonged to my property but I had to claim “adverse title” which was successful and the Land Registry issued a separate title deed. When it came time to sell the two titles were sold together, not merged.

I never saw the point of merging. Separate title is not a problem. Oh, and well done, free land!

edit: I just remembered, I did this again on another property and when it came to selling you designate the separate title as peppercorn value so it doesn’t affect stamp duty & valuation etc