Close an old lease and register a new lease of the same property to the same tenant
Published 13 November 2024
Applies to England and Wales
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1. Title number entry and summary
Enter the landlord and tenant title numbers (mandatory). You can also add any additional title numbers, which will capture an application to update the register (dealing).
The titles in this application page will reflect the title number type (landlord, tenant and related).
Validation has been built for the tenant title number entry which will only allow an existing leasehold title number.
2. Transaction selection
Business rules and logic have been built into the service - a Lease extension application must contain a dispositionary first lease extension of term transaction and can only contain one of those transactions.
3. Application completion and attachments
Complete the relevant tasks to populate the e-AP1 (we are not collecting prescribed clause data here).
The collection of tenant and landlord details mirrors how we collect transferee and transferor details.
For this transaction the required evidence is multiple (various). Select either ‘Deed of Variation of Lease’ or ‘Lease’.
4. Transferring a new lease
You cannot currently apply to register a transfer in the same application as a new lease.
Lodge the new lease first. Once you have the new title number created by the new lease application, you can lodge the transfer against the new leasehold title. This will be a separate application with a separate fee.
You will find the new title number by searching in ‘View applications’ in portal using either your HM Land Registry’s or your own reference. The application is listed using the new title number.
If you lodge the transfer as soon as you have the new leasehold title number, the application will be first in line for processing once the new lease application has been completed.
It is advisable to upload a letter with the lease application explaining that it and the subsequent pending transfer application are connected and that they should be processed as one.