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English land law. The area of land in England and Wales is 151,174 km 2 (58,368 mi 2 ), while the United Kingdom is 243,610 km 2. By 2013, 82 per cent was formally registered at HM Land Registry. [ 1] In 2010, over a third of the UK was owned by 1,200 families descended from aristocracy, and 15,354 km 2 was owned by the top three land owners ...
Land law, or the law of "real" property, is the most significant area of property law that is typically compulsory on university courses. Although capital, often held in corporations and trusts, has displaced land as the dominant repository of social wealth, land law still determines the quality and cost of people's home life, where businesses and industry can be run, and where agriculture ...
Compulsory purchase is the power to purchase or take rights over an estate in English land law, or to buy that estate outright, without the current owner's consent, in exchange for payment of compensation. In England and Wales, Parliament has granted several different kinds of compulsory purchase power, which are exercisable by various bodies ...
The value of land being eroded by the sea or other natural processes declines rapidly. Land in the centre of large cities may be very valuable, for example £7.2 million per hectare was cited for central London in 2016, [1] compared with around £2500 per hectare for grouse moors in Scotland. [2]
Leasehold is a form of land tenure or property tenure where one party buys the right to occupy land or a building for a given time. As a lease is a legal estate, leasehold estate can be bought and sold on the open market. A leasehold thus differs from a freehold or fee simple where the ownership of a property is purchased outright and after ...
In law, conveyancing is the transfer of legal title of real property from one person to another, or the granting of an encumbrance such as a mortgage or a lien. [1] A typical conveyancing transaction has two major phases: the exchange of contracts (when equitable interests are created) and completion (also called settlement, when legal title passes and equitable rights merge with the legal title).
In English common law, real property, real estate, immovable property or, solely in the US and Canada, realty, refers to parcels of land and any associated structures which are the property of a person. In order for a structure (also called an improvement or fixture) to be considered part of the real property, it must be integrated with or ...
His Majesty's Land Registry is a non-ministerial department of His Majesty's Government, created in 1862 to register the ownership of land and property in England and Wales. [ 3] It reports to the Ministry of Housing, Communities, and Local Government. [ 4] The registry contains 87% of land in the UK as of 2019.