Do you know where your property deeds are?
Is the bank storing them? Are they with your mortgage provider? Are they somewhere in your home?
If you do not know the answer to that question - you really should!
Safety of deeds is very important, these documents confirm that you are the legal owner of your property. Deeds are easily misplaced: even by banks.
If your property is unregistered at the Land Registry we advise checking where your Deeds are - better still register it now - in your lifetime. This will avoid extra delay and costs for compulsory registration after death.
Worst case scenarios for unregistered property can be frightful, and drafting replacement deeds/obtaining insurance and claiming adverse possession is not always straightforward.
6 January 2016
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