Markjbloggs
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The news in the past few days has had two seperate accounts of solicitors being a little less than legal in their property dealings. I want to ask a question about one particular aspect of these reports - it would appear that the gentlemen in question raised loans against the property deeds of some of their unsuspecting clients and used the proceeds to finance thier own schemes.
My question is - how can a homeowner check if someone has taken out a mortgage against their property against their will? Reason being is that my house does not have an outstanding mortgage and the deeds are kept at my solicitors office. Needless to say, i have no reason to suspect any wrong-doing on the part of my solicitor but these recent cases have got me wondering - if others can get caught by this, what is preventing it happening to me?
My question is - how can a homeowner check if someone has taken out a mortgage against their property against their will? Reason being is that my house does not have an outstanding mortgage and the deeds are kept at my solicitors office. Needless to say, i have no reason to suspect any wrong-doing on the part of my solicitor but these recent cases have got me wondering - if others can get caught by this, what is preventing it happening to me?