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Antonino Hawj
We received a Natwest residential mortgage deed with occupiers consent and postponement deed attached. I double checked with my mortgage broker who said they never mentioned my lodger to Natwest when applying.
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Your conveyancer and mortgage lender will be able to view the status of the deed at any time.Everyone named on the property will need to follow the process. You do not have to sign the deed at the same time. Your conveyancer and lender will be told when everyone named on the property has signed the deed.
In consideration of the Bank agreeing to make a mortgage advance available to the Owner on the security of the Mortgage, the occupier, being a person who is or will be in occupation of the Property, consents to the Mortgage
On a final note, I advise ALL landlords (and homeowners) to regularly scour the market for new BTL mortgage products, because you could end up saving a beautiful buttload of cheese! Remortgaging is probably one of the best ways of saving money and being a lucrative landlord.
When a lender takes security over a property by way of a mortgage or charge, its ultimate sanction, if things go wrong, is to repossess the property and sell it on the open market with vacant possession. In 1981, in the case of Williams & Glyn's Bank -v- Boland, the Bank tried to repossess the property. Mrs Boland lived at the property, but her name was not on the deeds and she was not, therefore, a party to the Bank's mortgage. Mrs Boland applied to the Courts for relief against possession, on the basis that she had acquired an interest in the property and the Bank had no right to force her out. The Court decided in her favour, leaving the Bank with virtually no security. This sent the lending institutions into a panic and, in order to overcome the problem, the requirement for a non owning occupier to sign a consent form came about.
All lending institutions have slightly different consent forms but the effect of them is the same. By signing the form, the occupier
We went with The Mortgage Works (Nationwide) in the end, but this was not out of choice, unfortunately due to the weird and wonderful (money making) schemes that lenders seem to make up on the spot, we couldn't port our existing mortgage to our next property without using Nationwide's own BTL company. I won't bore you the fine print as to the reasons why, as I fear you will lose the will to live on. But the gist of it is that if we did break with Nationwide we would of been left with a huge penalty and the lender laughing their way to the bank with 4.5k in their very deep and very gold lined pockets.
It seems to be saying that if the owner defaults on his mortgage payments to the bank, any revenue from the property is legally the bank's. So if you are a landlord and are leasing from an owner of a building, in order to rent out the flats for your own income, then the bank can take your rental income ( if building owner defaults on his mortgage). And it means if YOU own the building and owe the mortgage, your tenants agree the bank gets their rent if you default.
Hi , my daughter has received a demand from the lenders solicitor to sign that exact consent form from Santander. Got her very worried because the new landlord (trying to buy the property with tenants still got 5 months left on Assured Shorthold Tenancy) and they are students in their final year. It says they are signing that if the new landlord defaults the bank would take immediate possession and throw them out.
I do have access to legal sources and have written a letter to the solicitors stating the consent will NOT be signed. It is the Lenders way of trying to circumvent the 2002 Land Registry Act (schedule 1 to 3) and the Mortgage repossessionAct 2010 which were designed to stop lenders sending bailiffs around to tenants who had no idea that their landlord they had paid regularly had defaulted. As you say with BTL there is some protection to give notice as normal rather than immediate possession as the lender cannot claim that the landlord did not inform them of tenants as that is the purpose of BTL. Interestingly the 2010 act was to help tenants where some landlords had 'unauthorised' mortgages i.e. residential ones without informing the lender. It gives the tenants up to 2 months to sort alternative accomodation. I'm with you guys you should not have to upset or involve your tenants who quite rightly may or will ask to see your mortgage and proof etc before signing. All pointless and is being abused by lenders and their legal representatives who should only use this for occupiers who could have a charge on the property (like relatives etc) when a property is being sold. Perhaps they should change it to state a date by which the occupier would leave in the event of repossession, which would be normally the end of the tenancy or 2 months from the default.
Its hard enough for good landlords and good tenants without complications imposed for particular circumstances.
Interesting Andrewa above, I suspect the example you give would be a breach of the mortgage agreement (to give that lease) so would be covered by the 2010 act or similar i.e. could be re-possessed earlier (would probably go to court though)
Well done on not signing, I live in South Africa where we have a mixture of British and Roman Dutch common law and "Huur gaan voor koop" or renter before purchaser so your last sentence is correct, the mortgage agreement limits leases to 1 year before a renewal is necessary. I assume that as your daughter has an "assured tenancy" for a specific remaining time she cannot be kicked out as long as she pays the rent unless she either signs their agreement or gets "Rachmanned" by the heavy mob.
Generally, we only have the original title deeds when land or property is registered for the first time, as we need them to prepare the register. We create scanned copies of some deeds and then return all the original title deeds to whoever lodged them. This is usually the solicitor or conveyancer acting on behalf of the buyer.
Many lenders won't hold mortgage deeds for residential properties and expect the client or solicitor to hold them so I think your comments about deeds being held by a mortgage company is generally incorrect.
Also one other reason to hold title deeds is to help to identify who might have the benefit of an easement or a restrictive covenant. I have seen many entries which recite the terms of a transfer or conveyance which refer to "retained land" but there is nothing on the face of the register to tell you where the retained land might be. Sometimes you can do this by obtaining adjoinging titles but you can imagine how expensive and time consuming that can be when there have been many sales such as a residentiasl estate or in an urban area.
Thanks for your comments, Donald. I agree that it is more likely for the deeds to be held by a solicitor or conveyancer. I mentioned mortgage companies because I wanted to present all the options available to somebody trying to track down their deeds.
Hello Zaeem, I clearly state in the blog that your title deeds may be "with your mortgage company, if you have a mortgage". I agreed with Donald that it was less likely for them to held by lenders, though. Hope this is clear.
Last year we lost a sale because we didn't have a signed copy of our title deeds, we have a copy but for some reason it's not signed. Land registry have no record but have copies of all other relevant deeds. Our mortgage lender didn't have the title deeds or our solicitor at the time of sale didn't either. I have checked with both. When we tried to sell last year our then solicitor offered an indemnity insurance but this was not accepted. How can we right this situation so that we don't have the same problem when we next try to move? Our neighbours all have signed copies. We moved into our house in 1999. It was then a new build.
Liz - I assume by 'title deeds' you mean a specific deed/document which ahs been lost. If so the only way to right that sistuaiton is to find it or a certified copy. The alternative can be idemnity insurance but that all depends on the view of the buyer/their solicitor as to whther they accept that as being sufficient to negate the risk.
Surely if all other documents/deeds are held by land registry, which they are, then should that not be enough evidence that the house is our property. I really can't see what the problem is. Perhaps you could explain it to me.
I was under the impression that a house could only be bought legally if land registry has all the documents in the first place. So why do you not have a copy of our title deeds when you have everything else?
Liz - if the property is registered then that confirms the ownership. Clearly whichever deed you are referring to is seen as also being important for your buyer but they/your solicitor will need to explain it for you.
When the new build was sold and then registered you will have submitted the evidence to support that purchase, namely proof that the seller owned it and that they had transferred it to you. We then create the registered title whcih you and buyers would then rely on. I'm guessing here, as you have not specified what is missing, that a copy of the Transfer between you and the developer is missing and this is the key document the buyers want to see. If that is the case and we don't have a copy then the only options are to try the developer or check your own paperwork to see if you had a copy and you kept it. If a copy can't be found then the indemnity option may be a way forward. But whether the buyer accepts that or not is entirely up to them. Another buyer may be quite happy to proceed with indemnity insurance but veyr much a choice for individual buyers and their solicitor.