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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:…

Registering land or property in England - first time registration, transfer of ownership, changing your details on the register, where to register in Scotland or Northern Ireland

• When you must register

  This guide is also available in Welsh (Cymraeg). You must register all…

• Register for the first time

  Land or property must be registered for the first time if it’s…

• Change the registered owner name

  You must apply to HM Land Registry to change the registered owner name for…

• Update or correct the register

  You must tell HM Land Registry if anything in the register changes or it…

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

How to search for information about property and land in England and Wales - find out who owns it, how much was paid for it, how to get a scanned copy of the deeds and how to check the property...

Leasehold property - leasehold disputes, buying the freehold, service charges, lease extensions and Right to Manage

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.

The law on squatting - what squatting is, squatters' rights, removing squatters, getting your property back from squatters and adverse possession. Includes information from the withdrawn EX332 and EX333 guidance.

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

Find a property and get its title plan, title register and see who owns it

How to sell a home: Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs), using estate agents, finding a legal professional, getting offers, transferring ownership and making complaints.