As soon as you are mortgage free, the first thing to do is celebrate. Next, you should check what to do with the house deeds now that your mortgage is paid off. Let’s take a look at how to access paperwork for the house you now own outright.
Have a mortgage? What are house deeds?
The deeds of a property are all of the documents that relate to its ownership: boundary, conveyancing, sale or inheritance. HM Land Registry began keeping records of land ownership in 1861. The records held by the Land Registry are now digital, and they don’t need to be stored in physical form by the owner.