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Wrong conveyancing advise

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  • 24-06-2013 2:23pm
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    patb
    Registered Users Posts: 8 ✭


    I was lucky enough to find a buyer for my house in the current market, but when buyers solicitor did the normal conveyancing they discovered that the boundries are wrong and part of the land is registered to someone else. I bought this house approx. 10 years ago after a solicitor assured me that everything was in order,( ie land registry etc.)
    I'm now stuck with a property that has only half the land I originally purchased and buyer understandably has withdrawn her offer. What recourse have I with the original solicitor that did the conveyancing and handled sale
    TIA
    PB
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    LowKeyReturn
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    Cant give legal advice - speak to a solicitor ASAP and don't broadcast that you didn't know exactly what was going on. A solution might be forth coming in a couple of years.


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    Marcusm
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    You'll need to look further into this. Was it a mapping error? About 6-7 years ago the country was digitally mapped (mpre relevant to housing estates than streets or country houses perhaps) and the land registry maps were drawn up from that. I bought a 1999 house in 2008 and the map was wrong - instead of being a squared off plot, it was more of a trapezoid as the computer which analysed the aerial photos, decided that a wedge of shrubbery marked the boundary rather than the boundary wall. I had to get it scoped out and a complaint made to the registry. It was resolved in 2 weeks.


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    Bluegrass1
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    patb wrote: »
    I was lucky enough to find a buyer for my house in the current market, but when buyers solicitor did the normal conveyancing they discovered that the boundries are wrong and part of the land is registered to someone else. I bought this house approx. 10 years ago after a solicitor assured me that everything was in order,( ie land registry etc.)
    I'm now stuck with a property that has only half the land I originally purchased and buyer understandably has withdrawn her offer. What recourse have I with the original solicitor that did the conveyancing and handled sale
    TIA
    PB

    Pay peanuts, get monkeys!


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    Pat Mustard
    Registered Users Posts: 9,554 ✭✭✭Pat Mustard


    patb wrote: »
    I was lucky enough to find a buyer for my house in the current market, but when buyers solicitor did the normal conveyancing they discovered that the boundries are wrong and part of the land is registered to someone else. I bought this house approx. 10 years ago after a solicitor assured me that everything was in order,( ie land registry etc.)
    I'm now stuck with a property that has only half the land I originally purchased and buyer understandably has withdrawn her offer. What recourse have I with the original solicitor that did the conveyancing and handled sale
    TIA
    PB

    Did you get an engineer to check the boundaries before you bought the property?


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