By Steve Ranger, 19 June 2006 12:15
NEWS
Leases and mortgage deeds will soon be available online from the Land Registry.
The documents will be available from Land Registry's online services - Land Registry Direct and Land Register Online - as leases and mortgage deeds are added to the register.
From 12 July all newly registered leases and mortgages will be scanned into the register, adding around 10,000 documents daily to the existing database of more than 12 million deeds.
Customers can download details including the title register (which shows who owns the property, whether it is mortgaged and the price paid), the title plan (which shows the land owned), and the deeds.
The original documents will be destroyed after they have been scanned, as the electronic images can be used to produce official copies.
Leases and mortgages that have been registered before 12 July will remain in paper format and will not be held electronically until an application for an official copy is made.
The Land Registry has the world's largest property database of more than 20 million titles, with around £1m worth of property processed every minute in England and Wales.
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1. Richard Davies
soon the inland revenue will be posting peoples tax details as well I suppose.
Is this not private information to be viewed only by the lender and the mortgage company etc.?
I can see no benifit from putting this information online for all to see.
2. Drew Edgar
Another frivolous endeavour squandering the taxpayers' money to promote the socialist big brother design; a blatant invasion of privacy to encourage left wing politics of envy.
3. Rob
Richard, do you not mean, this is against the Data Protection Act surely my details and mortgage company given out to anyone who wants to spend £2, pick an address any address, good tool for fraudsters, no?
4. anonymous
Confused? I am - is this really new news? Back in December of last year (2005) due to a planning application submitted by a neighbour that covered both our properties, without any reference to me, I wanted to check my own data re my mortgage company/plans etc so I went online paid my £2 & accessed the information without any problems. Due to the Planning Application, I then subsequently accessed my neighbour's information.