Migration of Land Registry Direct Customers to the portal Early in 2010 the platform on which Land Registry Direct (LRD) is built will cease to be supported and LRD will be withdrawn. We intend to move all LRD customers across to Land Registry’s portal before LRD is withdrawn. The migration of customers to the portal will be carefully controlled to ensure that there is no negative impact to our customers or our system. The initial marketing campaign has produced very positive results with a large number of the targeted LRD customers applying to sign up to the portal. Electronic transfers (e-TR1) Land Registry is proceeding cautiously with development work on the design of electronic transfers and stakeholders are being actively involved to ensure that it will meet the needs of conveyancers. Initially the transfer will be limited to transfers on sale of the whole of one registered title by private individuals to private individuals. Where a transfer attracts Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) Land Registry will provide a system to enable conveyancers to demonstrate that a SDLT return has been successfully submitted to HMRC.
It is currently anticipated that this service will go live at the end of next year. |
