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Should my solicitor have checked deeds first

  • 18-10-2013 10:51am
    #1
    chinkaroo
    Registered Users Posts: 10 ✭


    While trying to sell my house an issue came up about the size of my property compared to that on the land registry website and land registry maps.
    My solicitor tried to resolve this first by going to the land regster to ask them fix the problem. They said it was a boundary rectification issue. After almost a month going back and forth between both mine and the builders solicitors at a huge cost the builders solicitors said it wasn't there problem.
    It was only then that my solicitor checked the deeds which the bank held and it was realized that my deeds were indeed correct all along and when the land registry went digital it didn't update the maps correctly.
    Should he have checked the deeds first??
    I'm so annoyed how easy and cheap this problem could have been resolved as I was trying to sell the house to pay a mortgage I can no longer afford and this problem has cost me thousands


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  • #2
    Marcusm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,450 ✭✭✭✭Marcusm


    I had this when purchasing a house in 2008; the digital map was clearly incorrect and a triangular flower bed confused the mapping software - based on a satellite image. It was sorted in 3 days. I'm surprised at your solicitor's actions, mine (sensibly) asked me to have it measured/surveyed prior to dealing with the issue. Did yours just run off into correspondence? I wouldn't be minded to pay....


  • #3
    chinkaroo
    Registered Users Posts: 10 ✭chinkaroo


    Marcusm wrote: »
    I had this when purchasing a house in 2008; the digital map was clearly incorrect and a triangular flower bed confused the mapping software - based on a satellite image. It was sorted in 3 days. I'm surprised at your solicitor's actions, mine (sensibly) asked me to have it measured/surveyed prior to dealing with the issue. Did yours just run off into correspondence? I wouldn't be minded to pay....


    Thanks for the reply. I had an architect come out to measure the site at the beginning as clearly there was a large difference between my actual property and the maps. Somewhere around 7mts x 4mts. When the land registry said in the beginning that it wasn't there problem my solicitor immediately contacted the builder solicitor. I can't figure out why he didn't check the deeds that the bank had. He is the same solicitor that dealt with the purchasing of the house in 2003


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