Hi there, first post and am desperate for some advice.
My house is a one-off house on a site situated beside a housing estate. I bought it ten years ago and according to the folio it has exchanged hands 3 times since being built 35 years ago and never a problem. But I recently got an updated copy of the land registry maps and it seems the entire site has been moved about 10 feet each way so that now my boundaries pass on one side through the middle of an extension on my house and on the other into the neighbouring housing estate!
Could the new maps be wrong or has the site been wrong all along? It is bordered by very old trees etc so I can't see how but my big worry is that the house is now up for sale and I don't know what to do. The older land registry maps look fine so surely I can't be left with this mistake.
Could this issue raise its head during the sale process as it has obviously never come up in previous conveyancying? Solicitors don't go out and check physical boundaries do they?
My house is a one-off house on a site situated beside a housing estate. I bought it ten years ago and according to the folio it has exchanged hands 3 times since being built 35 years ago and never a problem. But I recently got an updated copy of the land registry maps and it seems the entire site has been moved about 10 feet each way so that now my boundaries pass on one side through the middle of an extension on my house and on the other into the neighbouring housing estate!
Could the new maps be wrong or has the site been wrong all along? It is bordered by very old trees etc so I can't see how but my big worry is that the house is now up for sale and I don't know what to do. The older land registry maps look fine so surely I can't be left with this mistake.
Could this issue raise its head during the sale process as it has obviously never come up in previous conveyancying? Solicitors don't go out and check physical boundaries do they?