I don't think that's necessarily true. My understanding is that once the property is registered with the Land Registry the deeds aren't seen as being particularly important, and some banks and buildings societies have decided to destroy them rather than keep them if the property is registered. i've also seen some people argue that the deeds may still show information additional to what is recorded at the Land Registry and so hang on to them.
A lot of deeds sent to the Land Registry are destroyed and as building societies have dematerialised many deeds are being lost or destroyed.You do need to keep any deeds sent to you as they may not be abstracted at the Land registry. Its a shame because there is a lot of social family history in deeds which will be lost to future generations.
I agree it is such a shame. The building society sent us our deeds when we paid off the mortgage a few years ago, it was a 1900 house so there was a really interesting history to it.
If you request the return of deeds they will send them back I kept all mine and would advise to do so as the Certificate tells not the whole story its land plan is not detailed mine was about 30 years out of date even though the deeds included a recent plan .
Several covenants on the deeds are not mentioned in the certificate
Originally posted by hamish72: If you request the return of deeds they will send them back I kept all mine and would advise to do so as the Certificate tells not the whole story its land plan is not detailed mine was about 30 years out of date even though the deeds included a recent plan .
Several covenants on the deeds are not mentioned in the certificate
The LR will if deeds are of great historical interest and if you agree give same to some society cant remember the name to keep for posterity
