“They will hold the deeds”
I’ve sold two houses, Scotland and England, for father and father-in-law, mortgages paid off and deeds kept by two sets of solicitors. Both sets of sols swore blind they had no deeds, until I found in old correspondence copies of letters written by my father and father-in-law respectively, addressed to their lawyers, which specifically referenced the fact that the deeds were staying with the solicitors for safe keeping. Then, magically, the deeds were found. Though only partially in the case of FiL, he bought an additional slice of land to extend the garden, all conveyancing and surveying arranged through same lawyers, they can’t find any evidence of this bit.