Land registration—first registrations at HM Land Registry—checklist


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Land registration—first registrations at HM Land Registry—checklist


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This Checklist looks at HM Land Registry’s requirements for first registration of title upon the transfer of a freehold or leasehold estate, the grant of a new lease or the creation of a first legal mortgage. It covers which dispositions trigger first registration, the time period for registration, the consequences for failing to apply for first registration and the information that must be provided to HM Land Registry with the application.

Which dispositions trigger first registration?

The following dispositions will trigger compulsory first registration.

Transfers of unregistered freehold and leasehold estates

The transfer or assignment of:

  1. •

    an unregistered freehold estate in land, and

  2. •

    an unregistered leasehold estate in land which has more than seven years left to run at the date of assignment

for valuable or other consideration, by way of gift or in pursuance of an order of any court.

Note that an instrument at a negative value is included as being for valuable or other consideration.

The assignment or surrender of a lease where the term is to merge into the reversion

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