This month’s CPI Update makes reference to the Land Registry’s proposal on its website for a “home-owner monitoring service” which is intended to protect registered properties against title fraud.
In an article on property fraud in The Observer, Sunday 15 May 2011, (Property title fraud costs Land Registry £26m in compensation) the newspaper states that “according to internal Registry emails, released under the Freedom of Information Act, the [Land Registry] has been avoiding publicly addressing the issue of land certificates. The confidential emails state that questions on the subject could lead to “unwanted questions of whether [their abolition] has contributed to registration fraud itself, which we have evidence to say it may have done”.”
As regards the home-owner monitoring service, Land Registry says “contact us with your thoughts at commercial.services@landregistry.gsi.gov.uk”.