Property ownership on the Land Registry
Who owns the house is public - what you can and cannot do about it.
Understand it
In England and Wales, property ownership is recorded by HM Land Registry - in Scotland by Registers of Scotland, and in Northern Ireland by Land & Property Services (LPS). Anyone can buy the title for a few pounds, showing the owner’s name and often a correspondence address. You cannot remove a title entry, but you can keep the contact address it holds to one you are content to be public, and there are protections if you are at genuine risk.
How to spot it
A title register bought for your address shows the registered owner and their contact address.
Close the gap
- Keep the correspondence address on the title one you are content to be public.
- At risk of harm, ask your land registry (HM Land Registry, Registers of Scotland, or LPS in NI) about the protections available.
- Treat this as a known limit - see the honest-limits part of our data-removal guide.
What to do about it
Some public records simply can't be withdrawn - the property register is one. Our data-removal guide is honest about what clears in an afternoon and what doesn't.