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The Land Registration Academy – shaping the future of our caseworkers

A banner saying 'Land Registration Academy' and 'We're ready for your ambition', with caseworkers glimpsed at a desk behind.

The Land Registration Academy – shaping the future of our caseworkers

Jeff Saunders, our Head of Service Delivery – People, Strategic Improvement & Planning, explores how our award-winning in-house training programme is helping to shape, develop and expand our casework capability and the impact it’s had on organisational performance.

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Using GOV.UK Verify for the first digital mortgage

Posted by: Shaun Ewings, Posted on: 15 February 2018 - Categories: Digital services

...(the document that promises the repayment), the borrower signs the deed online, and the conveyancer makes the deed effective on completion of the transaction. In reality, there are complex layers...

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What to do when a property owner dies

Posted by: Adam Hookway, Customer Policy Manager, Posted on: 13 February 2018 - Categories: Buying and selling property, Law and practice
Flowers at a gravestone

Adam Hookway, Customer Policy Manager, talks about some of the main issues that arise when a property owner dies.

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Flexible digital services, fit for the future

Posted by: John Abbott, Posted on: 7 February 2018 - Categories: Digital services
HM Land Registry - Working today on a digital tomorrow

...the current projects we’re working on, the services they will produce, and how these are already affecting that future. Digital Street I spoke about Digital Street in my last post....

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Searching for the owner of unregistered land

Posted by: Adam Hookway, Customer Policy Manager, Posted on: 5 February 2018 - Categories: Buying and selling property, Law and practice
Overgrown land; is it registered?

In England and Wales, all land is owned by somebody. But how can you find out who owns a piece of land or property that isn't registered with us?

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How old is my house?

Posted by: Frank Ramsay, Posted on: 26 January 2018 - Categories: Buying and selling property, Historic
Row of houses, varying in age.

People sometimes ask us "How old is my house?", because they need this information to take out building insurance. Here are some things you can do to explore the age of a property.

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Opening our conveyancer data

Posted by: Andrew Robertson, Head of Customer Policy and Service Improvement, Posted on: 28 December 2017 - Categories: Buying and selling property, Data
New housing estate

Our Head of Customer Policy, Andrew Robertson, sets out how and why we are looking at opening up our conveyancer data.

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World-leading through digital transformation

Posted by: John Abbott, Posted on: 18 December 2017 - Categories: Digital services
Streets on a mobile phone

...whilst enhancing the integrity and security of our register against threats from cyber-attacks and digital fraud. cigdem/Shutterstock.com Digital Street Digital Street is one of our key projects, and vital to...

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Becoming the world’s leading land registry

Posted by: Graham Farrant, Posted on: 13 December 2017 - Categories: Buying and selling property, Digital services
ity of London and Southwark skyline showing buildings such as the Gherkin, the Cheesegrater and the Shard.

...guaranteed and protected’, reflects this heritage and reinforces our commitment to put our customers right at the heart of our organisation. We have just released our Business Strategy 2017 to...

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Our UK HPI changes: greater accuracy, fewer revisions

Posted by: Rhys Lewis, Posted on: 15 November 2017 - Categories: Buying and selling property, Data
Row of houses

...property to be registered while new builds can take a little longer. This means that when the UK HPI is first published it is based on approximately 40% of the...

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We've released more HM Land Registry data free of charge

Posted by: Andrew Trigg, Chief Geospatial & Data Officer, HM Land Registry, Posted on: 7 November 2017 - Categories: Data
Binary numbers superimposed on a map of the world to suggest the scope of data releases.

...and Overseas Companies Ownership (OCOD) datasets were released free of charge for the first time. These datasets contain information on properties, where the registered legal owner is a UK company,...

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