Property Deeds

When my H died 6 years ago my solicitor just registered that the house was left to me and I received a statement from Land Registry that I am the owner of the house.
The actual deeds are still with the solicitor who acted for us when we paid of the mortgage but I have been told they will not be needed as Land Registry have official notification.

It depends.
In Scotland the deeds are in the process of being digitised and if like my house, built about 1811, the deeds haven't yet been digitised.

It was in the same family ownership until the 1950s, then used as laboratories until we bought it in 1980.
I tried to find the deeds and have at long last. My new solicitor has managed to extract 5 pages of it. He found it in the office of Sassines.

I would love to see the original deeds.

You need to contact the Land Registry and find out what record they have about the property. Then get that updated before you put it on the market.

We bought a retirement flat last year.
There was a very lengthy delay with the process because of the incorrect Land Registry records.

I've tried to find my friend's house deeds to check ownership of a patch of land. She bought the house in 1980 and the deeds are not on the Land Registry website. I think, unless the property has changed hands relatively recently, you might find that there isn't an electronic copy.

goodmove.co.uk/blog/where-are-house-deeds-held/

My understanding is they are stored electronically at the Land Registry and a copy is easily available. I recently moved house and my conveyancing solicitor received mine directly from there before I’d even had a chance to look out the paper copy.

Or a bank?

Did they leave them with a solicitor?