Buying an unregistered property at auction

[Sarah_W]

I'm looking a a house that states in the legal pack:

"No registered estate, caution against first registration or application for first registration or application for a caution against first registration shown on index map in relation to the property"

It's an old house that doesn't even have gas supplied to it, so I presume it's just been in the samfe family for a long time. Are tehre are isks to tis or will a solicitor be able to sort all of this out easily upon purchase?

[SJobson]

Give the legal pack to a solicitor. If there's no documents of title, there could be a problem, but I don't think the auctioneer would be very happy about a seller with no title entering a property in his auction.

[Sarah_W]

SJobson said:

Give the legal pack to a solicitor. If there's no documents of title, there could be a problem, but I don't think the auctioneer would be very happy about a seller with no title entering a property in his auction.

Iknow a solicitor will sort it out, but I've come here to ask to try to save some money ;-)

[Simpo Two]

Sarah_W said:

Iknow a solicitor will sort it out, but I've come here to ask to try to save some money ;-)

With perhaps £50K+ at stake, a few hundred on a solicitor would be wise I feel. How much can you afford to lose?

[Sarah_W]

Anyone else who knows who's prepared to tell me? ;-)

[Coco H]

Odd. I bought an unregistered property as it has been the same hand for 50yrs and it wasn't land registry registered. It cost extra for the solicitor to get all the right boundaries registered to us etc. All the nearby properties were unregistered too.
I don't know on this one - take advice. I did

[SJobson]

Sarah_W said:

Anyone else who knows who's prepared to tell me? ;-)

I'm a solicitor, hence my previous advice. Nobody can tell you without seeing the auction pack. If you want me to look at it, that'll be £100+VAT