Changing who is recorded as legal owner on the title deeds of a property

There can be a variety of circumstances in which you might want to change who is registered as legal owner of a property.

Most commonly, changes of name, particularly the removal of a name, happens on divorce or death:

  • When a couple divorces or separates, one of them may want to stay in the property and buy the share of the other.
  • When someone dies, removing his or her name from the property deed may be necessary in order to complete probate and distribute his or her estate. The name of the deceased person might be replaced with those of the beneficiaries, or in the case of sale of the property, with a new owner.

The process of removing a name from the title deeds

An application must be made to change the register you can do this by contacting the number below or sending us an email and one of our team will call you back
 
Where the property is owned by two owners as joint tenants and one dies, the surviving joint owner becomes the sole legal owner of the property. In order to remove the name of the deceased, another form will have to be completed with Land Registry England.

The Infomation we would need from you to complete the forms

In the majority of conveyancing transactions to create a transfer deed between a buyer and a seller of the property, or previous owners and new owners (if no money is being transferred).

It should be used to:

  • transfer the whole of the property in one or more registered titles
  • to register the property for the first time
Before transfer, we will check whether the property has been previously registered. 
 

The form is straightforward to complete provided that you have all the information to hand.

You need to know the title number the property if it has been registered before, and provide a brief description including the postcode of the property if it has one.

The date of completion should be completed once the transfer has been executed.

Again, please give Land Registry England a call on the number below or fill in the form to request a call back from one of our team.

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