Title Deed

[eggsarascal]

Anyone got one, tried to get one?

 

Any help much appreciated.

 

I've read the GOV, advice.

[GarethM]

You mean via the land registry website?.

 

It's easy depending on if it's property or land, but be warned any updates and change of ownership on older properties are taking years at the moment.

Edited June 11 by GarethM

[eggsarascal]

8 minutes ago, GarethM said:

You mean via the land registry website?.

 

It's easy depending on if it's property or land, but be warned any updates and change of ownership on older properties are taking years at the moment.

Unregistered bit of land.

[GarethM]

If you go on the website thing there's a no postcode tool thing that's like a magnifying glass that might shed a bit more light on ownership.

 

If you're trying for vacant possession, best speaking to a solicitor as it's not as easy as those internet idiots that say put up a sign as it also comes with a claw back clause for a number of years.

 

I'd also be tempted to see what's neighbouring and when they last sold.

[Tree monkey 1682]

12 years before you can claim it as your land....but  you have got to show management of the Land...

[Haironyourchest]

If it's anything like "adverse possession" in Irish law, which is quite parallel with British law, you have to be the sole occupier for 12 years. After that time you apply for legal possession. Then the court puts out word of application and invites challenges.

 

If anyone, even a member of the public, has accessed the land in 12 years without permission, and can prove it, the application fails.

 

How this works with fences and trespass I do not know.

 

There was a case where an absentee guy owned a field and some other guy fenced it and claimed possession. The original owner got wind of it and took time stamped photos from the main road inside of the 12 year deadline.

 

His challenge was successful because the land parcel actually extended to the median of the main road, so, even though there was a fence on the land, it was not a property boundary in law.