Trismegist san/Shutterstock.com A few months ago I wrote about the inconvenience and inconsistency of manually verifying a client’s identity – inconvenience for both lawyers and their clients. Along with the...
...issue but, even then, there is a simple – and free – solution available. Normally, no problems arise from properties not being registered to their new owners yet. This is...
Baloncici/Shutterstock.com HM Land Registry can provide supportive pre-submission guidance to help ensure complex applications can be processed more efficiently. We have now brought our five free specialist services together in...
...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,...
...it’s empty, rented out or mortgage-free. Case study In February 2016 we received an application to register the sale of a home to the value of £250,000. Our caseworkers did...
...address without making a specific application on the relevant form. First published in Practice and Process, 16 May 2024. You will find more process-related articles in our monthly newsletter for...
...and selling property on how it can improve the uptake of digital processes and action upfront information. The survey is live until midnight 1 April 2024. We hope you will...
...a stronger, sustainable land registration process for the future. What we are doing now We are aiming to reach a position in spring 2024 of having no applications older than...
...problem using the service. When users told us that it wasn’t easy to distinguish between ‘O’ and ‘0’ in the mobile phone code we send them, we made changes to...
...what we meant by ‘signing digitally’. To sign the deed, our users just needed to enter a code which we’d sent to their mobile phones, and press a button to...