On 14 January 2011 18:50, Francis Irving <[email protected]> wrote: > > So you end up in the land of fudge, doing things like only publishing > land registry data for commercial property, or for non-owner occupier > houses and similar. Messy. >
It is all published (*). Its just that each document costs you to download. If I wanted (say) to see what all the leases in my building looked like I'd be paying out about £80. If you wanted to do any serious study, you would have to have a very very deep pocket. Now the land registry does charge a fee when properties change hands, but that's so it can carry out title insurance, rather than to cover costs of information supply. I have no idea what its income from searches v registration fees is. (* Its not all published really - but they don't tell you that at law school. If you look at title entries you will often see documents referred to and noted as "copy filed" - those are generally held in paper only form and you have to ask for them.) -- Francis Davey _______________________________________________ developers-public mailing list [email protected] https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public Unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/options/developers-public/archive%40mail-archive.com
