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maggie01 | 22:47 Mon 09th Dec 2024 | Law
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I bought my house 17yrs ago and the solicitors who conducted the sale hold the deeds  is there a time limit that they hold them for

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just ask for them, they serve no purpose beyond historical interest.

I don't think theres a specific timeframe in terms of the maximum years, only way is to ask. 

No - or Yes - ask them  for the deeds and hang onto them

The whole idea of the Land Registry is that paper deeds were nt needed.... and it turns out that this isnt whole story. 

The solicitor may charge for holding them.

I got a shock when the Bish of Manchester and his successors in law wrote to me reclaiming his  mineral  rights ( 1794) which he always had but had not been recorded

Depends on the solicitors, if you've done regular business they won't charge, when dad died we wanted some deeds for his house, had to wait 2 days because they were stored miles away in a facility, which incidentally had recently been flooded 2 feet deep. Some can ask for a storage fee after a period.

Glad to have got ours because they show who owns which fence and boundary walls.

I think even the Land Registry are reeling back from " you can shred your title deeds"

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