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• Updated: 11 February 2016

Check if you're a joint tenant or tenants in common. Change from joint tenants to tenants in common, or tenants in common to joint tenants

• Overview

  You must decide which type of joint ownership you want if you buy, inherit…

• Check your ownership details

  You can find out what type of joint ownership you have by checking…

• Change from joint tenants to tenants in common

  This is called ‘severance of joint tenancy’. You should apply for a ‘Form…

• Change from tenants in common to joint tenants

  You need the agreement of all the other joint owners to change from being…

• Selling when an owner has lost mental capacity

  You must apply to the Court of Protection if all of the following apply:…

How to register an overseas entity and its beneficial owners or managing officers, so it can buy, sell or transfer property or land in the UK.

• Updated: 1 May 2024

Ownership of copyright works may depend on the circumstances under which the work was created.

• Updated: 19 August 2014

• Updated: 1 January 2009

Find out about buying a home through shared ownership. Read about who can apply, costs, paying rent, buying more shares and repairing and selling your home.

Who can set up employee ownership, employee shares and engagement, employee directors, model documentation

Buy your rented home through the Right to Shared Ownership scheme: who can apply, how to apply, costs, paying rent, buying more shares, repairing and selling your home.

• Updated: 22 August 2017

Find out if a claim of ownership by adverse possession can be made on common land and town or village greens, what effect it will have on the land and whether a claim can be opposed.

• Updated: 14 October 2015