Text for Report on Title
ROT: Property Fraud Prevention
- Change date
- 02/11/2023
- Word count
- 330
- Deployment measure
- 7/10
Rationale
Section 5.6a of the updated CQS (CPMS) states that a lawyer must draw the client’s attention to HMLR Property Alert Service and other fraud guidance published by HMLR. A lawyer should remind the client of the importance to the client of ensuring that their address information as held by HMLR is kept up to date. You may wish to consider including a similar paragraph to this.
In recent years, the Land Registry has ceased to issue certificates of title in a move known as “dematerialisation”. Whilst this has the advantage of
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