Question reference: S6W-05974
- Asked by: Oliver Mundell, MSP for Dumfriesshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: 27 January 2022
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Current status: Answered by Tom Arthur on 8 February 2022
Question
To ask the Scottish Government how many title holders are awaiting copies of their title deeds from Registers of Scotland.
Answer
This is a question for the Keeper of the Registers of Scotland (RoS). She advises me that, as of 02 February 2022, there are 79,831 dispositions undergoing registration. RoS receives and processes over 550,000 applications on average every year, of which 90% are completed in 20 days. In the Land Register the legal effect of registration backdates to the date on which the Keeper entered the application onto the application record (the date of receipt) and properties undergoing registration can still be transacted upon in the usual way.
Performance data is published regularly on ros.gov.uk.