Hi
Myself & my husband are selling a house - the mortgage on it was discharged over 11 years ago.
According to PTSB there is 2 charges registered against the property & we thought that there was none - upon some investigation by the very helpful staff in the legal department of PTSB it turns out that our solicitor incorrectly registered a different house/mortgage of ours against the folio number for the unencumbered property back in 2004.
And repeated the same mistake in 2009 when we remortgaged.
It appears that the mistake itself is relatively easy to rectify but the solicitor wants us to pay the land registry fees in order to do this - I feel that the solicitor should pay the fee as it was their mistake; we already paid land registry fees back in 2004 & 2009 for what we assumed was the correct registration.
So my question is do we have to pay this registration fee now or should the solicitor pay?
Thanks
Myself & my husband are selling a house - the mortgage on it was discharged over 11 years ago.
According to PTSB there is 2 charges registered against the property & we thought that there was none - upon some investigation by the very helpful staff in the legal department of PTSB it turns out that our solicitor incorrectly registered a different house/mortgage of ours against the folio number for the unencumbered property back in 2004.
And repeated the same mistake in 2009 when we remortgaged.
It appears that the mistake itself is relatively easy to rectify but the solicitor wants us to pay the land registry fees in order to do this - I feel that the solicitor should pay the fee as it was their mistake; we already paid land registry fees back in 2004 & 2009 for what we assumed was the correct registration.
So my question is do we have to pay this registration fee now or should the solicitor pay?
Thanks