http://www.landsearch.net LandSearch is the leading internet supplier of Land Registry Title Deeds and Land Registry documents in the British Isles. en-gb http://www.landsearch.net/landregistry/pr060327.asp LandSearch adds a new string to its bow, a new service that can list all properties owned by an individual or company. Bob Dickenson 2006-03-27 http://www.landsearch.net/landregistry/pr060405.asp After an absence of many years the Open Golf Championship returns to The Royal Liverpool Golf Club in Hoylake on the Wirral Peninsula. This has sparked a renewed interest in those properties that are close to the golf club. Bob Dickenson 2006-04-05 http://www.landsearch.net/landregistry/pr060413.asp Wirral, Liverpool and Sefton have succeeded in their £98m bid for funding to enable them to make a major start on their 15 year New Heartlands regeneration programme. Bob Dickenson 2006-04-13 http://www.landsearch.net/landregistry/pr060421.asp The arrival of April has seen the traditional spring bounce in house prices with major building societies showing an average increase during March of around 1%. Bob Dickenson 2006-04-21 http://www.landsearch.net/landregistry/pr060425.asp There have been an increasing number of house sales in recent years particularly amongst those who are already home owners who want to move to better properties. The low level of interest rates, improved salaries and an opportunity to release equity have all contributed to this trend. The average home owner moves roughly every 5 or 6 years. This has brought about an increasing number of disputes as to where a particular boundary between properties may be. Bob Dickenson 2006-04-25 http://www.landsearch.net/landregistry/pr060502.asp Now that the The Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 is fully enacted many land and property owners are not sure how this will affect them. The Act has given legal right of access to approximately four million acres of mountain, moor, heath, down and common land in England and Wales. As well as this there are established rights of way enshrined in the title deeds of land and property. These are divided into two categories, namely public and private rights of way. Bob Dickenson 2006-05-02 http://www.landsearch.net/landregistry/pr060511.asp The government have set high targets for the private sector to provide more homes particularly affordable ones. There is a projected increase of around 10%.in the number of households by 2021 and a decrease in the average household size from 2.29 persons to 2.15. This will require around 2.5 million extra homes. This averages out at almost 170000 new homes per year. Bob Dickenson 2006-05-11 http://www.landsearch.net/landregistry/pr060519.asp Although the government legislation to introduce Homebuyer’s Information Packs (HIPS) does not become law until 2007. The initiative to provide them has already been taken up by such organisations as LandSearch. However it is already possible for would-be buyers to find information about the land or property they would like to purchase. This can be done before the expense of making a commitment to buy and instructing a solicitor or conveyancer. Bob Dickenson 2006-05-19 http://www.landsearch.net/landregistry/pr060602.asp The increased job mobility in recent years has meant that many families have had to uproot themselves from the area where they have spent their formative years. This usually means a move to an unfamiliar part of the country. The consequence is that they have little knowledge of the area that they are proposing to move to. Very often there may be a choice of areas that seem suitable. Bob Dickenson 2006-06-02 http://www.landsearch.net/landregistry/pr060616.asp Driven by the pressure of government targets and the necessity for more houses to meet the increasing number of households, builders are responding in a variety of ways. The government has an expectation that 60% of all new housing will be built on brownfield sites. The guidelines issued by John Prescott, in his former role in charge of the department responsible for housing, meant that application for planning on brownfield sites would almost automatically be approved. Bob Dickenson 2006-06-16 http://www.landsearch.net/landregistry/pr060623.asp Buying properties at auction has long been mainly the preserve of developers. However the internet is leading a revolution by enabling far more people to be involved in buying by auction. Already the internet has led to a revolution in the way people look for property. This has enabled private sales to take place and in so doing bypassing agent’s fees. Now there are companies carrying out auctions online in a similar way to that used by eBay. The motto still has to be “caveat emptor” “let the buyer beware”. Fairly simple and relatively inexpensive searches can be made prior to making a bid. These can be made online with LandSearch. Bob Dickenson 2006-06-23 http://www.landsearch.net/landregistry/pr060704.asp Despite many warnings at the beginning of the year that house prices would fall during the year, house prices continue to rise. The evidence given for a fall was the increase in unemployment, lower wage increases coupled with increasing inflation and the likelihood of interest rates rising. Bob Dickenson 2006-07-04 http://www.landsearch.net/landregistry/pr060707.asp LandSearch have been able to extend the range of searches for land registry information for Northern Ireland and speed up those in the Republic of Ireland. These new land registry searches will enable interested parties to access information that was unattainable on line previously. In many cases in the Republic of Ireland this will allow a 24 hour turnaround during the working week rather than the slower prolonged postal service that existed up until now. Bob Dickenson 2006-07-07 http://www.landsearch.net/landregistry/pr060714.asp This is an age where the controversy surrounding the building of new nuclear power stations and the dangers they represent has become headline news again. Few have forgotten the danger of radioactivity from Chernobyl when it went badly wrong. The different factions put forward their points of view to make the earth and this country in particular a cleaner and safer place to live in. We forget that radioactivity occurs naturally all around us to a greater or lesser extent in the form of radon gas. Bob Dickenson 2006-07-14 http://www.landsearch.net/landregistry/pr060817.asp The largest and most important purchase that people buy is a house. The increasing cost of houses makes the choice of the correct property even more important. Searching for a property may take several weeks until a short list is drawn up and visits are made to preferred choices. These visits rarely last more than 30 minutes. A choice is made, an offer presented to the sellers and if accepted it is left in the hands of the solicitors for the next few weeks to sort out the legal matters. If all the searches are satisfactory the sale is then completed and the purchaser moves in. Bob Dickenson 2006-08-17 http://www.landsearch.net/landregistry/pr060829.asp Title Deeds are the proof of ownership of a property or a piece of land. They have a habit of disappearing in the modern home. Solicitors and Mortgage Lenders, like Building Societies, used to keep these documents. Nowadays the individual owner usually has possession of this information. It is very valuable information, as a house is probably the most expensive purchase that most people will ever make. So what happens when they are needed and they cannot be found. Bob Dickenson 2006-08-29 http://www.landsearch.net/landregistry/pr061020.asp Ten years ago four of the country’s leading mortgage providers got together and announced that they would offer to people, who wished to buy property as an investment, mortgages that were much easier to obtain and would no longer charge a punitive interest rate. They even had a catchy phrase for it. They called it “buy to let”. Bob Dickenson 2006-10-20