Posted by Shirley on 1/11/2009, 7:09 pm, in reply to "Question - Deeds to your house ......."

This thread reminded me of what my cousin told me a while ago. His Dad had been advised to keep his house deeds in a metal box, on a bit of wood, over the top of the water tank in the loft. The person who told him to do this said that in the event of a fire, the wood would burn, then the metal box would drop into the water tank and the contents would be safe! Not sure whether this would actually work or not, but funny to think about someone doing it.

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Posted by Sheila on 1/11/2009, 2:02 pm, in reply to "Question - Deeds to your house ......."

Nationwide, have kept our deeds since the mortgage was completed in 2006. Our solicitor suggested they should keep them, so they retrieved them from Nationwide. He then discovered that Nationwide had not removed the charge when he checked the Land Registry. Nationwide have apoligised and said it was an oversite and corrected it. Best to check with Land Registy, I think the fee for this is £8.00

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Posted by Val on 31/10/2009, 4:45 pm, in reply to "Question - Deeds to your house ......."

isnt it a great feeling when you no longer have a mortgage :-).........our deeds were left with Northern Rock and we paid an anual fee .then we switched it to our bank to store...for a fee..........a few months ago we gave the deeds to our solicitor for some reason and when he had dealt with it and we asked for the deeds so we could return them to the bank he said why waste your money ........everything connected with your deeds is now all stored on the computer at Land Registry

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Posted by Billy D on 31/10/2009, 11:52 am, in reply to "Question - Deeds to your house ......."

Mike if you have a Barclays account they will store them for you but it's £3 a month,or get yourself a fire proof Safe, Northern Rock used to keep mine but they suddenly want £97 to continue storing them,

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