Land Registration
Land Registration services
Title checking service
- Helping you to identify the property extent
- Advising on competing titles and gaps between titles (overlaps and underlaps)
- Checking title registered by Registers of Scotland under Keeper Induced Registration (KIR)
- Advice on title conditions, common areas and other ancillary rights
- Assisting with production and redrafting of plans so that they are land registration compliant
Application assistance
- Checking applications still undergoing registration if they relate to or compete with your client's property
- Assisting you with completion of your application pack and form to minimise the chance of rejection
- Dealing with documenting unwritten prescriptive servitudes
Portfolios of properties
- Helping you to create a bespoke process for your client taking into account their capabilities and resources, and your own, to avoid unnecessary duplication of work while maximising efficiency and managing liability
- Spot checking a sample of the applications being bulk processed to ensure that all is going according to plan
- Liaising with you and (if required) your client regularly to tweak the process as and when needed, following lessons learned for their own systems and/or updates in policy change from Registers of Scotland
Rectification of the Land Register
- Giving opinion on title issues such as a third party overlap into your client's title
- Dealing with omissions from your client's registered title
- Applying to remove unenforceable title conditions from the Land Register
Bespoke services
- Call us to discuss any other land registration requirements - we are flexible and can offer a bespoke solution for your own needs, all at a fixed fee
We offer a full land registration service, helping every step of the way - as much or as little as you need.
We deal with all land registrations, whether voluntary registration, automatic plot registration, or onward sales of part or all of title. With fixed fees on all of our services, you'll get no surprises.
The law and practice surrounding property law and land registration has become steadily more complicated over the last two decades, culminating in the overhaul of the system under the Land Registration etc (Scotland) Act 2012.
Having worked closely before, during and after the Act's implementation with Registers of Scotland, the Law Society of Scotland and other key stakeholders, our Frances Rooney is one of Scotland's leading experts on land registration. She has managed the legal process for registrations of over 10% of Scotland's land mass. Frances is also well known for her numerous articles and other writings on the practical and legal issues, and for helping to train solicitors, clients and other interested parties on the potential pitfalls and how to avoid them, and is regularly asked for assistance from other solicitors on how to manage land registration issues that they may be facing.
Call us now to discuss your land registration requirements.