To officially prove ownership of a property, you will require Official Copies of the register and title plan; these are what people commonly refer to as title deeds because they are the irrefutable proof of ownership of a property. Note, this only applies to registered property.
To obtain these from the Land Registry, a member of the public needs to visit the Land Registry official website (via the GOV.UK site) and download a paper application called an OC1 and send it to the Land Registry with a cheque. The cost is £7 for the title register and £7 for the title plan. The Land Registry will post the documents back within 7 working days.
We are not the Land Registry, we are an independent UK company that provides Land Registry documents to the public.
Our service is electronic. We can send these documents in under 60 minutes of ordering via our website, and documents are sent by email. We provide the same Official Copies you would receive from the Land Registry, however using our commercial account with the Land Registry, we can get them instantly and therefore send them on to our customers instantly, doing away with the hassle of filling in forms and posting cheques.
How do I obtain Official Copies?
From HM Land Registry
You can obtain Official Copies of the Title Register, Title Plan and Filed Deeds directly from the Land Registry only by making a postal application using either form OC1 (for the Title Register and/or Title Plan) or form OC2 (for Filed Deeds). You cannot obtain Official Copies directly from the Land Registry online.
Using this method, you must download the application form, fill it in and post it with a cheque or postal order to the relevant address. The documents will be sent to you by post, usually within 7 days. It costs £7 for an Official Copy of any single document.
From us
We supply the same Official Copies of the Title Register, Title Plan and Filed Deeds by email, usually within an hour of ordering. There are no forms to print and post, and payment is made on our website by credit or debit card. We can do this because we have a commercial account with the Land Registry that gives us access to these documents electronically.
We have made the process as easy as possible, and we have created packages that contain the most popular documents bundled together to save you time and money. We charge a fee for this level of convenience and speed, but our customers choose us because they deem this fee to be justified by the time and effort saved.
See our deeds selection page for our full range of available documents and prices. Or go straight to the order form, here.
