hypothetical title deed search

wildwords

If a curious individual was to be searching for the contact details of the owners of a hypothetical property what potential further actions could one do after the obvious land search and asking all the locals?

A land search seems to me to be of no assistance if the address of the hypothetical owners is the address of the hypothetical property and this property say was potentially abandoned for a number of years!

Legally one is not allowed to view the solicitor who handled the latest sale of the hypothetical property and therefore one would theoretically hit a dead end in information/ contact details search would one not?

grumpytrousers

i presume what you're saying is that 'a friend' has done a search on the Land Registry for who owns, say, number 32 Acacia Avenue, and the name has come up as Joe Bloggs of 32 Acacia Avenue and you know that joe Bloggs doesn't live there and you want to know where he DOES live.

Is that it?

What would you do?

Haven't a friggin' notion? If the curious individual has a good reason, say, taking a person to court, etc, then the address of 32 Acacia Avenue is good enough, cos Joe Bloggs will have said, at some point, that number 32 is his address in the state 'for the service of notices'

johnnyskeleton

Search for it in the way that you would search for anyone or anything - phone book, internet, asking around, directory enquiries, etc.

If you're serious about finding someone, you could always get a private detective to sniff a person out - that's their job. A little old man hiding in a bush with binoculars is a great way to find that long lost friend. His dirty mack, of course, is purely hypothetical.

wildwords

thanks for those replies however, if the building was theoreticaly abandonded and overgrown with no body to peep at in your dirty old mac, would there be any other potential routes? say the law gazzete? or does one have to be a proffesional in the legal bussiness to post an add in the law gazzete?

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1. Land Registry.

2. Registry of Deeds.

3. Electoral Register. This might involve trying to get an old electoral register if they were deleted by default in any updating by the local authority.

4. Check with the local authority if they have any information about the address if there is any chance that it was rented out. i.e. landlord register ?

1 & 2 involve paying small search fees.

templetonpeck

wildwords wrote:

thanks for those replies however, if the building was theoreticaly abandonded and overgrown with no body to peep at in your dirty old mac, would there be any other potential routes? say the law gazzete? or does one have to be a proffesional in the legal bussiness to post an add in the law gazzete?

There's not really much point in looking in the gazette because your audience base would be quite restricted to only people in the profession.

I think the only option you have is the phone book. Any other avenues I can think of would be strictly confidential.