House Deeds

[joddington]

When someone is widowed, how doyou get house deeds changed to the remaining person without It costing for a solicitor.

[woofgang]

you go here.
https://www.gov.uk/update-property-records-someone-dies.

Don't go anywhere else, there are sites that look the same but charge a fee for doing what you can do yourself. The form is easy to complete, I did it myself when my husband died.

[Peter Pedant]

answered below spreeny house deeds
,
altho I have to say that since the av hse is worth over £ 100 000
and the solicitor is gonna charge £100 or something - which is 0.1% of the value of the house, I wonder why anyone wants to do it

same goes for do it yourself conveyancing

but as the answers below show
if you really wanna save money you dont need to bother until your sell

[woofgang]

Its got nothing to do with the value of the house PP, if the house is your home; and actual money might be tight for the lady concerned.

[Peter Pedant]

the cost is peanuts to the cost of correcting it when someone has got it wrong
even for people who are short of money ( like er me actually)

[Buenchico]

Print out this form:
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/422283/DJP__English_web_PDF_.pdf

Complete it. (Section 4 should be left blank apart from ticking either Box A or Box B: See below)

Send it, together the relevant document (depending upon whether Box A or Box B is marked : See below) to the Land Registry at this address:
Citizen Centre
PO Box 6350
Coventry
CV3 9LP

No fee is payable.

If the deceased person left a will then an official copy of the grant of probate should be sent with the form.

If they died intestate but their spouse obtained letters of administration in order to distribute their estate, then an official copy of the letters of administration should be submitted.

If they died intestate and letters of administration were not sought then an official copy of their death certificate, or a copy certified to be a true copy, should be sent.

If an original copy of the death certificate is required, it can be obtained for £9.25 from here:
https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/default.asp
(That assumes that the deceased person lived in England or Wales).

Alternatively a certified copy can be obtained by taking an existing copy to a solicitor, who will charge a nominal fee for the service. (Unless it's gone up very recently, the fee is still set at the remarkably low figure of just five pounds).

Those procedures won't change any paper deeds (which are largely redundant anyway) but they will change the (all-important) title register at the Land Registry.

[joddington]

Thanks to all for your helpful answers.

[Jennykenny]

I also had to do it when my husband died, but as I had to make a new will, the solicitor included it, charging me a separate £3.00 (which went to the property records) for the service.