As far as I am aware, the house price information is relatively new. The name of the mortgage company has always been there. This is because the register is used by purchasers to find out whether anyone else has a claim on the house and, if so, how much. Similarly, if you wanted to take out a furher loan on the house, the lending company would want to check that you had enough equity.
Tony
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[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Teresa Gudge
Sent: 02 February 2005 16:13
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Subject: Land Register Online
I have followed up an article which my husband found in The Times regarding
Land Register Online - it provides easy public access to details of 19
million properties in England and Wales. If you want to know what was paid
for a property and who the legal owners are you enter the address details -
then you are asked to pay £2 for every document you want to see. I paid
the monies and was shown the document relating to my house and garden - I
wasn't surprised to see our names, or the amount we paid for the property
in 2000 - what I was surprised at was the details of the people we had a
mortgage with -- do other members think this is a bit too personal or am I
being a bit sensitive ???
Would this site have come about because of FOI ? Sorry but I work in
private sector so my FOI knowledge is limited !!
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