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[Closed] Selling land I don't own. How much?

rossendalelemming · 2021-10-15T13:37:36Z

I'll give you the background.... When my Dad died I got a mortgage and bought my sister out of her half of the house. My parents had owned the property, buying off plan back in 1966. The property is Leasehold except for a strip of land at the front which is freehold. The builder hadn't bought all the land when he started so my Dad had to buy the extra bit. Now when all my paperwork went in the Land registry phoned me up and explained that back in the 60's people didn't register the land and my neighbour at the back had registered a strip of my back garden the day before mine went in. While they were at it, they brought my boundary back to the fence. It used to go out to Half the road. Not arsed about that, unless I could mount a Toll both :-) They asked if I wanted to dispute it, which I didn't at the time as I was trying to get the Mortgage over the line. I don't use the back garden much but was a bit put out that a neighbour of 50 years pulled a fast one. He's trying to sell his house and found out about the unregistered land and took advantage. Last week he knocked on my door and asked me "how much to buy the strip of land?" so he can build a driveway/off road parking. His house isn't selling as you can't park on the drive way because my garden juts out. No idea why it was built like this. What he's really asking, as he owns the land, is "how much to not start a dispute?" I'm happy to "sell" it to him, how do I value it? It's roughly 5mx1m. The Yellow bit in the picture, the blue squiggle is his driveway.

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maccruiskeen

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“Once the house was sold to the new owner for £131,000 by the person impersonating Mr Hall, they legally owned it.”

In similar circumstances if a buyer bought something that turned out to be stolen - a bike for instance then they're screwed and have to hand it back to the rightful owner. I guess in this instance - at this point in time - the title deeds name them as the owner so it legally is theirs regardless of the circumstance of them having come into its possession

Well at least with the payout from the solicitors screw up

It seems like its the Land Registry that cough up

Posted : 01/11/2021 8:49 pm

unfitgeezer

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According to my research on Rightmove the house in Luton was priced ridiculously cheap - 131000 in Luton gets you a 1 bed flat not a house.
There’s definitely more to this story, estate agent - up-to no good ?? ( I’m guessing)

Posted : 02/11/2021 12:40 am

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