An estate agent checks a glowing title document on his phone on the front path of a modern British semi-detached house at dusk, a blank For Sale board waiting to go up beside the door
HM Land Registry Business Gateway · Pay-as-you-go

Title checked before the board goes up.

Order the official HM Land Registry title register and title plan without leaving the platform. Two minutes to know who's actually on the register — before you commit marketing spend to an instruction that might not be theirs to give.

From £7
Per document, pay-as-you-go
Freehold + leasehold
Up to 4 titles, one order
Pay or bill
Your card, or the client's
Stored for good
Against the property, always

How it works

From address to official document.

Proof of Ownership sits inside your dashboard — the same address search you use everywhere else on the platform, connected directly to HM Land Registry's Business Gateway.

1

Find the property

Search the address with the same picker used across the platform. It resolves to a UPRN, and we look up whichever registered titles are already on file against that property — the title number and its class, freehold or leasehold. If nothing's on file yet, you can type the title number in by hand.

2

Pick one or more registered titles

A single property can carry more than one registered title — a freehold and a leasehold, most commonly. Tick as many as apply, up to four, and they combine into one order rather than four separate purchases. Choose the register, the title plan, or both, and online or posted delivery.

3

Pay now, or bill it to the client

Charge your agency's card on file — instant, no dialog boxes — or bill whoever it concerns. Billing a client emails them a secure link that signs them into their own account to pay, and the order only goes to HM Land Registry once that payment clears.

4

The document lands in the property's file

Most online orders complete in minutes; occasionally HM Land Registry acknowledges the request first and we poll until the result is ready. Either way, the finished PDF is stored against the property in your account for good — download it again any time, and it feeds straight into any Material Information pack open for that address.

Why check before you list

Every register is three parts.

The person who takes your call isn't always the name on the register — a beneficiary handling probate, a director instructing on behalf of a company, an ex-partner who moved out years ago. The official copy tells you, in writing, who actually has the right to sell.

Property register

Describes the land or property itself — the extent shown on the title plan, and whether it's freehold or leasehold.

Proprietorship register

The name and address of the registered proprietor, and the class of title — this is the page you and your vendor check against who's actually instructing you.

Charges register

Mortgages, restrictions and easements registered against the land — the kind of thing that surfaces late and derails an otherwise clean sale.

Proof of Ownership orders the official copy for you to read — it doesn't interpret or flag it automatically. Reading who's on the register before you agree terms is a two-minute habit that costs a great deal less than an instruction you have to unwind.

Who pays

Pay now, or pass it on.

A title check shouldn't cost your branch anything if it doesn't have to. Bill it to the client and Proof of Ownership stops being an overhead.

Pay now

Your firm's card on file is charged instantly and the order goes to HM Land Registry immediately. If there's no card saved yet, a hosted checkout takes payment first — nothing is ordered until it clears.

  • £7 per online document, £11 per posted copy
  • No subscription — a per-order fee, nothing more
  • A declined charge never creates an order — nothing is left half-billed

Bill the client

Search your existing clients — from valuation leads, AML checks or past title orders — or enter their email fresh. Set the price, and we take a 15% platform fee from what they pay; the rest is yours. One Stripe Connect account, shared with AML Checks, so you only connect it once.

The old way

A separate portal login vs the screen you're already on.

Ordering a title copy the traditional way means leaving your CRM, logging into a different portal, typing the title number in again, and filing the PDF somewhere you'll remember. Proof of Ownership collapses that into the same tool you took the instruction on.

What you need Proof of Ownership A separate title portal
Finding the title numberLooked up by address automaticallySearch by title number, if you have it
Freehold + leasehold togetherOne combined orderTwo separate searches and payments
Who paysYour card, or bill the client directlyYour card only — recharge the client yourself
Where the document livesStored against the property, always findableWherever you saved the download
A second copy laterRe-download from your orders list, any timeLog back in, find it, or reorder
Feeding your compliance packApplied to Material Information automaticallyAttach it yourself
Where it startsThe same address search you already useA different login, a different tab

A day in the life

Instruction to board, same visit.

Three moments in a listing negotiator's morning, from taking the instruction to the board going in the ground.

An estate agent at a widescreen monitor in a modern branch office, reviewing a title order screen glowing with a rose-pink document icon, morning light through the office window

1 · Back at the branch

Order the title while it's fresh

Straight after the valuation, search the address and order the register — pay now, or flag it to bill the vendor before terms are signed.

A close view of hands holding a phone on the front path of a modern British terraced house, the screen glowing with a rose-pink title document icon, dusk light

2 · Document lands

Check the name on the register

The PDF is ready on your phone before you've left the street. The proprietor's name matches the person who signed your terms — good to go.

An estate agent fixing a For Sale board into the front garden of a modern British semi-detached house at dusk, warm porch light glowing behind them

3 · Board goes up

Market it with confidence

The board goes in the ground the same visit — checked, not assumed. The document sits in the property's file for whenever it's needed again.

Every order, tracked

From payment to PDF.

Your orders list shows exactly where every title stands — no guessing whether HM Land Registry has actually seen it yet.

Awaiting payment

A client-billed order sitting until they pay — nothing sent to HM Land Registry yet.

Pending

Funded and queued to be sent — agency-paid orders reach this almost instantly.

Submitted

On its way to HM Land Registry's Business Gateway, awaiting a result.

Processing

Acknowledged by HM Land Registry and being polled until the document is ready.

Ready

The PDF has landed and is stored against the property — download any time.

Failed / Rejected

A funded order can be resubmitted at no extra cost; nothing is ever charged twice.

Who uses Proof of Ownership

Built for whoever signs up the instruction.

Anyone on your branch account can order a title — the branch's card and Stripe Connect account are shared, so the whole team works from the same setup.

An estate agent negotiator working at a laptop in a modern branch office at dusk, a glowing rose-pink document icon reflecting on their face

Listing negotiators

Ordering a title the moment an instruction is signed, before the property goes anywhere near a portal.

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Branch managers

Making title checks a standard step before marketing, not an optional extra someone forgets under pressure.

Multi-branch groups

Every branch orders against the same account, with orders attributed to the branch that placed them for a clean audit trail across the group.

Anyone handling leasehold stock

Flats and maisonettes often carry a freehold and a leasehold title on the same address — one combined order covers both without doubling the admin.

What makes it different

Not just a portal login bolted onto your CRM.

Address-first, not title-number-first

Search the address you already have, and Proof of Ownership resolves the registered title(s) on file — no separate title-number lookup needed before you can even start.

Freehold + leasehold, one order

Select every title registered against a property — up to four — and they combine into a single priced order instead of separate purchases.

A shared payout account

The Stripe Connect account you use to bill clients here is the same one used by AML Checks. Connect it once, and both tools bill through it.

A client picker that remembers

Search your own contacts from valuation leads, AML checks and previous title orders — a client entered anywhere pulls through here too.

Resubmit without repaying

If a funded order hits a transport problem on HM Land Registry's side, resubmit it from your orders list. You've already paid — it never charges again.

Feeds Material Information automatically

A completed register is applied straight to any open Material Information pack for that property — one less document to attach by hand.

Direct Business Gateway connection

Orders go straight to HM Land Registry's Official Copy (Title Known) service — no reseller markup sitting between you and the register.

Stored against the property, not your inbox

Every completed document lives against the property record for good. Re-download it from the orders list whenever you need it again.

Where the time goes

A title check, two different ways.

Illustrative estimate, not a measured average — actual time depends on the property and how your firm currently orders titles. Shown to make the shape of the saving clear, not to promise a number.

Find the title number

In-platform
Looked up by address
Separate portal
Search a separate portal, if you have it to hand

Order the register + plan

In-platform
One combined order
Separate portal
Two separate purchases, freehold and leasehold

Pay for it

In-platform
Card on file, or bill the client
Separate portal
Your own card, then chase the client separately

Find the document again later

In-platform
Re-download from the property
Separate portal
Search your inbox or shared drive

FAQ

Common questions about Proof of Ownership

What does Proof of Ownership actually buy me?

An official copy of the HM Land Registry title register, the title plan, or both — ordered directly from HM Land Registry's Business Gateway. The register shows the registered proprietor's name, the class of title (freehold, leasehold or other) and anything registered against the land — mortgages, restrictions, easements — so you can check the person instructing you is actually the one on the register before you commit to marketing the property.

How much does it cost?

£7 per digital document — so £7 for the register alone, £7 for the title plan alone, or £14 for both. A posted hard copy is £11 per document. There's no separate subscription; you pay per order, and a combined order covering more than one registered title on the same property is priced per title.

Can I bill the vendor instead of paying for it myself?

Yes. Choose "Bill the client" when you place the order, enter their email and the price you want to charge, and we email them a secure link that signs them into their own Home.co.uk account to pay. We take a 15% platform fee from that payment — the rest lands with your agency — and the title is ordered from HM Land Registry the moment they pay, not before.

Do I need to set anything up to bill a client?

Just a connected payout account — the same Stripe Connect account used by AML Checks. If your firm already takes client payments through AML, Proof of Ownership uses that connection automatically. If not, connecting takes a couple of minutes and it's shared across both tools from then on, so you only ever do it once.

How do I find the right title number?

Search the property address with the same picker used elsewhere on the platform. If we already hold a registered title against that UPRN, we show you the title number and its class — freehold, leasehold and so on — so you can tick one or several. If nothing's on file yet, you can type the title number in by hand.

What if the property has more than one registered title?

You can select up to four titles in one order — most commonly a freehold and a leasehold registered on the same address. Each selected title is priced and ordered as its own product, and the total updates live as you add or remove titles, so a combined order is one order and one line item, not two separate purchases.

What's the difference between the online and hard copy format?

Online delivers an instant PDF stored against the property. Hard copy asks HM Land Registry to post a physical copy and costs a little more per document — useful if you specifically need a posted copy for a physical file rather than a screen.

Where does the document go once it's ordered?

It's stored against the property in your account and can be downloaded again at any time from the orders list — no need to keep your own copy or reorder it later. If the same property has an open Material Information pack, the register is applied to it automatically.

What happens if an order doesn't go through?

If the payment fails, nothing is created — you're never charged for an order Land Registry never sees. If the payment succeeds but the submission to HM Land Registry itself hits a transport problem, the order is marked failed and can be resubmitted from your orders list without paying again, because it's already funded.

Is this an official HM Land Registry partnership?

Proof of Ownership connects to HM Land Registry's Business Gateway — the same authenticated channel conveyancers and search providers use to order Official Copies of the register and title plan. It isn't a general partnership beyond that integration; it's a direct, credentialed connection to their Official Copy (Title Known) service.

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