Sale of Royal Mail Land Registry and QE Centre to raise bn after Budget

Stateowned businesses like the Royal Mint Land Registry and the Queen Elizabeth Conference Centre are set to be privatised in coming years to raise billions of pounds for the Treasury. The Land Registry is alerting property owners to the dangers of fraud. Land and buildings are attractive targets to sophisticated fraudsters who have been known to sell or mortgage them, despite not having ownership. Two new guides have been published by the Land Registry, giving advice to members of the public. Public Guide 17, entitled “How to Safeguard The Land Registry has attempted to dampen accusations that its online register leaves home owners open to ID fraud. ... could be used to steal an individual's identity. The Land Registry insisted that thean open register is the norm, and ... a property that is registered to someone else," it said in a statement on 13 August 2007. More: Land Registry Denies ID Fraud Risk Source: http://www.kablenet.com/

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Average UK house price falls to Land Registry

... and Wales decreased from 5.3 per cent in February to 3.6 per cent in March, taking the average price to £184,798 according to the latest figures from Land Registry. This is the seventh consecutive decrease in the annual rate of growth. The monthly change for March, accounting for seasonal adjustments, is -0.4 per cent. The ... ... teamed up with Civica to provide application development services to Land Registry. The contract will last for three years. The ... Registry is a government department that keeps and maintains the Land Register for England and Wales via a database of over ... skills and offsite application development. John Wright, IS director, Land Registry, said: "The framework provides a flexible and robust model ... The Land Registry aims to develop new triggers that will allow it to make registration of land owned by some trusts compulsory

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House prices in England and Wales down in a year Land Registry

... the end of January, figures showed today. House prices slid by a further 0.8% during the month to leave the average property costing £156,753, according to the Land Registry. The group said the month was the 17th in a row in which the annual rate of growth fell, contrasting with the 21 months of uninterrupted gains in annual ... The Land Registry has become the latest contributor to depressing statistics on the UK housing market. The body, which reports one month behind other house price commentators, calculates that in January house prices in England and Wales were 15.1% lower than a year earlier. The average value of a home fell 0.8% on December, marking the ... in a row as the rate of growth hit a record low, new figures show. The Land ... of London & Country, a mortgage broker, said: "The Land Registry figures add to the growing catalogue of ... comfort for the general housing outlook." The monthly Land Registry figures are unique because it is the ... of the other main indices, although because these Land Registry figures are doctored, or "seasonally adjusted" to ...

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OS and Land Registry to share data centre Kable

Ordnance Survey will use part of the Land Registry's data centre in Gloucester under a five year agreement.Home owners see the value of their properties fall for the 17th month in a row Land Registry figures show. Office copy entries refer to documents lodged with the Land Registry pertaining to registered land. These registers prove the ownership of the property and determine any registered encumbrances attached to the property. ...With about seven million land document stored in the Electronic data Management System , at the land registry consisting details of documented lands and properties in Lagos , land grabbers will surely have tough times. ...Someone sent me these printouts from the UK Government Land Registry's internal network a while ago. Some sensible stuff. Catch it kill it bin it. Avoid antibiotics. Then suddenly, brilliantly, on the second image, sprinkling a bit of ...Two years later, the town of Trenčianske Mitice asked the land registry office in Trenčín to give it title to the land and buildings "given that we are the original owner". Even though the law requires company assets to go through ...The fact is, all we really know is that on 11 o'clock on Tuesday 20 October, all staff in all Land Registry offices will be gathered together for The Big Announcement. The Land Registry board have been working on a programme of major ...

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