From: Daytona 
Newsgroups: uk.finance
Subject: Re: Sales not appearing on Land Registry
Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 16:51:57 +0100

On Sun, 20 May 2007 18:02:45 +0100, Pete Verdon
 wrote:

>Daytona wrote:
>> Do some property sales not have to be registered at the LR ? Private
>> treaty (whatever they are ?) or to businesses ?
>
>The land registry has to know about all sales of registered property, 
>otherwise it would still list the "old" owner as owner. And since the 
>Land Registry is by law the definitive arbiter of who owns the land, the 
>"buyer" would not in fact have bought anything at all.

Thanks. It's either the solicitors being tardy or something else.....

Daytona