Land Registry Compliant Map, do I need a surveyor/architect?

Comer1

Hi

We are selling our house and need a Land Registry Compliant Map. The house is a terraced house and the boundary is easily identified when I go to osi.ie

Do I need to employ a surveyor or an architect or can I just got to the osi website myself, purchase an A4 map, at scale of 1:1,000 as per attachment and outline the boundary myself in red?

Thanks

sydthebeat

Comer1 wrote: »

Hi

We are selling our house and need a Land Registry Compliant Map. The house is a terraced house and the boundary is easily identified when I go to osi.ie

Do I need to employ a surveyor or an architect or can I just got to the osi website myself, purchase an A4 map, at scale of 1:1,000 as per attachment and outline the boundary myself in red?

Thanks

Why so you need it marked?

Are you splitting an existing folio, or is the land not yet registered?

Comer1

sydthebeat wrote: »

Why so you need it marked?

Are you splitting an existing folio, or is the land not yet registered?

I don't know if we do need to get one done. Our solicitor told us we needed one and to contact a surveyor to get one. The house is 150 years old and the property boundaries have not been changed since my parents bought it in the early sixties.

sydthebeat

Comer1 wrote: »

I don't know if we do need to get one done. Our solicitor told us we needed one and to contact a surveyor to get one. The house is 150 years old and the property boundaries have not been changed since my parents bought it in the early sixties.

Your solicitor should have told you WHY you need to get it marked.

Its probably not registered currently.

You can check on the land direct.ie site.

Anyway, no you can't mark it yourself unless you're suitably qualified.

Whomever marks it has to identify their qualifications on it.

Comer1

sydthebeat wrote: »

Your solicitor should have told you WHY you need to get it marked.

Its probably not registered currently.

You can check on the land direct.ie site.

Anyway, no you can't mark it yourself unless you're suitably qualified.

Whomever marks it has to identify their qualifications on it.

When I click on the property on landdirect.ie I get the following message:

The area selected is not registered with the Land Registry. Information about this property may be available from the Registry of Deeds

So there's my answer.

Thanks for your help

December2012

So your property is presently not registered. You need to provide a Land Registry compliant map when you are selling the property, because the new owner has to apply to register it in the Land Registry. Did your solicitor advise you how to get it done?

Comer1

December2012 wrote: »

So your property is presently not registered. You need to provide a Land Registry compliant map when you are selling the property, because the new owner has to apply to register it in the Land Registry. Did your solicitor advise you how to get it done?

Yes, he gave me the name of a surveyor who will be able to get it done for us.

December2012

Great. Glad youre getting sorted.

Gumbo

This is because a few years ago the law changed.
Previously you could purchase a property and the solicitor put a mark against the folio (not the official term) which meant they didn’t have to fully register the ownership.

Nowadays, each new purchaser has to register it, which basically adds about €700 to the legal costs of purchasing a house now.

I done one the other day for a mate, had to sign it and put my qualifications on the land register specific map.

December2012

The Property Registration Authority of Ireland fees (paid by the Purchaser) are much cheaper when it is a first registration application, so its not more expensive for them.