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UK house owner - just signed up to the Land Registry alert system. Which has to be a record from not knowing something existed to signing up in four minutes. 1
by lifeisstillgood 5y ago
UK house owner - just signed up to the Land Registry alert system. Which has to be a record from not knowing something existed to signing up in four minutes.
1. The registry seriously refuses passwords that do not have alphanumeric characters only. Did not try Unicode.
2. Most of the UK is not in the land registry - it only is compulsory for land sold IIRR since the 1990s and generally has records going back to early 1900s. If someone owns land from before then, no-one publically knows who they are or who owns it. As most land in the UK is held by government or aristocracy and they have not needed to sell it for centuries we don't know who owns what.
3. This simply cannot be the first time - something this sophisticated, the original fraudster did not so this the first time now. How common is this? I mean see above - the land registry has a monitoring service for this ?
4. Thinking about it, I just added a monitoring account with just an email. If I create a new account and try to add $TargetAddress I find out if it is monitored - and I suspect that that is not going to count as a monitoring event !
- iso1631 5y agoAbout 85% of land in the UK is registered - including the vast majority of domestic dwellings.
- lifeisstillgood 5y agoMy apologies - bad memory https://whoownsengland.org/2019/01/11/the-holes-in-the-map-englands-unregistered-land/ https://whoownsengland.org/2019/01/11/the-holes-in-the-map-e...
- iso1631 5y agoYou can get INSPIRE polygons from https://use-land-property-data.service.gov.uk/datasets/inspire/download https://use-land-property-data.service.gov.uk/datasets/inspi... Either download the GML or view it on the map. This gives you a number which you can pump into https://eservices.landregistry.gov.uk/eservices/FindAProperty/view/LrInspireIdInit.do https://eservices.landregistry.gov.uk/eservices/FindAPropert... And the spend £3 buying the deeds for the property. One look at the coverage in your local area shows the type of properties available, for example Parliament Square (North and South), or tiny bits of rock off the edge of the Isles of Scilly, as well as more pedestrian locations like "Flat 1-14, Grosvenor Court, 55 Upper Grosvenor Road, Tunbridge Wells, TN1 2DY" A lot of unregistered land, certainly in towns, are roads and railways that have been there for over 100 years