Time to issue folio PRA/Land Direct

Hi Tar,

It's not always necessary to have the previous vendor's title fully registered before a sale closes.

Sometimes in cases like this, the vendor's solicitor will give copies of his client's application for registration to the purchaser's solicitor. If the purchaser's solicitor considers that that application is in order and that nothing will prevent the completion of the registration then he/she might be willing to go ahead and close the sale if the vendor and his solicitor gives an undertaking to deal with any land registry queries arising in the registration of the vendor's title.

At closing the vendor would sign the deed as "the person entitled to be registered as owner of the folio" and the purchaser's solicitor would lodge this deed in the land registry and request that it be linked to the vendors registration application.

This process is usually fine if the title is straightforward and the purchaser is a cash buyer. If it is a commercial property and there is a bank (and a bank's solicitor involved) then it's unlikely the bank would release funds until the vendor's title is registered.

What you could do is log on to the land registry website. If you know the folio number you can carry out a search to find out the "dealing number" that the land registry has assigned to the vendor's application for registration. With that information you can call into the land registry and explain the urgency of having the vendor's title registered to the relevant official. Although the official wont be able to give you any specifics, divulge any information regarding the registration or tell you that they can expedite matters, they are generally decent people who will try help out if they can. They are very busy but as far as civil servants go they are hard working and competent. If the sale is very urgent for you it might be worth a try.

best of luck

No Worries at all. It appears that they have actioned your application at your request, which is good news. They are normally pretty sound in the land registry.

"Queried" status means that the mapping dept., having checked your application, have raised a query, possibly a mapping one. Hopefully this query can be dealt with quickly by the applicant's solicitor and it should proceed to completion shortly thereafter, as mapping is usually the final part of the registration process.