Changing your details in the land register :Cross Stitch – Home and community

Details of a property’s ownership are recorded in a public register of land interests for England and Wales called the ‘land register’. If your property is registered and you change your name or contact address, or pay off the mortgage, Land Registry needs to update its records. Find out when and how to update the register.

You should make sure Land Registry has an up-to-date ‘address for service’ (contact address) for you. This ensures you get important letters or notices about your property and can protect you from property fraud.

You can have up to three addresses for service. For example:

• an address where you’re living now
• an email address
• an address abroad

Updating your address details

You can change your address details using the form ‘Updating registered owners’ contact details’.

You need to include:

• a passport-sized photo (taken in the last three months)
• your date of birth
• your previous addresses for the last five years

You also need to send a copy of the photo page in your passport or a copy of your photocard driving licence. Or you can send in two items from the following list:

• a copy of a utility bill that you got in the post (for example, an electricity bill) – it must be less than three months old
• a copy of a council tax bill for the current year
• a copy of a mortgage statement for the last completed year

You will need to send the form, along with your photo and proof of ID, to the following address:

Freepost RSUY-SSUU-EJRXLand Registry Gloucester OfficeCOA TeamTwyver HouseBruton Way

Gloucester GL1 1DQ

You will need to update your details on the land register if you change your name by:

• getting married
• entering into a civil partnership
• deed poll
• statement of truth or statutory declaration

You can ask a conveyancer to update your details for you or you can do it yourself. If you ask a conveyancer, they will need to see proof that your name has changed.

If you do it yourself, you will need to send proof to your nearest Land Registry office.

The proof that your name has changed that you need to supply must be one of the following:

• a marriage certificate (original or copy)
• civil partnership certificate (original or copy)
• deed poll certificate (original or copy)
• statutory declaration or statement of truth (original – include a copy if you want the original returned).

If you are changing your name by deed poll or by a statement of truth or statutory declaration you will also need to send in form ID1 (the ‘Certificate of identity for a private individual’). You do not need to send form ID1 if you are changing your name on marriage or civil partnership.