Property Deeds

[sigma]

When a building is demolished for redevelopment, what happens to the original deeds.

[New Judge]

Not many original deeds exist now and if they do they are of no use. The records are held electronically by the Land Registry.

[Peter Pedant]

what happened before the law changed ?

anyway under the 2002 land registration act
it is all electronic
and they previously said "thro them all away"

however now they advise to keep them ( ha!) in case there is a dispute in which they might be of value

the basic rule is that ownership doesn't change
is is just that there is now no building the owner of the land can live in or let.

after the bombing during the war - if the bomb site was rebuilt - then the pre war lease still held sway
( not - new building new lease and the pre war leasholders could sod off )

[Bazile]

What ? Throw away my deeds with very nice looking handwriting , with Latin phrases and brightly coloured embossed stamps ?

[Peter Pedant]

no that was last years advice
this year is keep them

presumably the mmistake rate on the electronic thing is higherthan they anticipated