Hey all am new here and have been scouring the net looking to see if someone can help me.
I have taken possession of a property in the UK and upon further searching have found out that the owner of the property has been dead for around two years and he had no known relatives.
I have managed to get my hands on the title deeds, the house at the moment is unlivable as it has been raided by by scrappers who have ripped up all the floor boards for the copper piping but not turned the water mains off lol.
I have now turned off the water mains boarded up the house and changed the locks if you add having the deeds as well I feel like i am in with a good chance of gaining ownership of this property but just dont have the legal nohow on how to do it, so... if there is anyone out there who knows what next steps i have to take to legally own this freehold property please let me know what I got to do.
Thanks in advance.
I have taken possession of a property in the UK and upon further searching have found out that the owner of the property has been dead for around two years and he had no known relatives.
I have managed to get my hands on the title deeds, the house at the moment is unlivable as it has been raided by by scrappers who have ripped up all the floor boards for the copper piping but not turned the water mains off lol.
I have now turned off the water mains boarded up the house and changed the locks if you add having the deeds as well I feel like i am in with a good chance of gaining ownership of this property but just dont have the legal nohow on how to do it, so... if there is anyone out there who knows what next steps i have to take to legally own this freehold property please let me know what I got to do.
Thanks in advance.