This should have been a straight forward no mortgage purchase but it's been snagged up now on a Land Registry issue.
I am largely uninformed about Folios and stuff like that so thought i'd get some opinions.
It's a small stone house built in mid 1800's, on a row.
It's got a kind of a long back garden and it seems there is a map discrepancy between the Folio lines and the Site lines of the back garden.
The seller is listed as the owner of the Folio and the Site.
But there's a thin strip unaccounted for in the Land Registry map of these boundaries.
Picture attached.
Nobody else can or does (as far as we know) claim this thin strip of land and the seller's solicitor is trying to get this sorted; i suppose redrawn at the Land Registry but this is a significant snag now.
Our Solicitor suggests the Contracts can proceed but he says we should get:
-Declaration of Identity from an Architect or Engineer or if this is refused, have Engineer verify the boundaries in conjunction with the maps attached to the Deeds.
Previously we had the house surveyed but didn't do a boundary survey.
What do you think is meant by "If this is refused"?
There's no walk way or path going between the back gardens of the houses on this row so this is probably just some mistake made on a map at some point in the past.
But what do you think a Declaration of Identity is going to accomplish?
Does an Engineer have access to the maps attached to the deeds, like through the seller's Estate Agent?
I am largely uninformed about Folios and stuff like that so thought i'd get some opinions.
It's a small stone house built in mid 1800's, on a row.
It's got a kind of a long back garden and it seems there is a map discrepancy between the Folio lines and the Site lines of the back garden.
The seller is listed as the owner of the Folio and the Site.
But there's a thin strip unaccounted for in the Land Registry map of these boundaries.
Picture attached.
Nobody else can or does (as far as we know) claim this thin strip of land and the seller's solicitor is trying to get this sorted; i suppose redrawn at the Land Registry but this is a significant snag now.
Our Solicitor suggests the Contracts can proceed but he says we should get:
-Declaration of Identity from an Architect or Engineer or if this is refused, have Engineer verify the boundaries in conjunction with the maps attached to the Deeds.
Previously we had the house surveyed but didn't do a boundary survey.
What do you think is meant by "If this is refused"?
There's no walk way or path going between the back gardens of the houses on this row so this is probably just some mistake made on a map at some point in the past.
But what do you think a Declaration of Identity is going to accomplish?
Does an Engineer have access to the maps attached to the deeds, like through the seller's Estate Agent?