HM Land Registry (HMLR) has updated three practice guides: Practice Guide 25—Leases: when to register, Practice Guide 26—Leases: determination and Practice Guide 68—Amending deeds that effect dispositions of registered land.

HM Land Registry (HMLR) has updated three practice guides: Practice Guide 4—Adverse possession of registered land, Practice Guide 12—Using HMLR forms for complex and more unusual transactions and Practice Guide 50—Requisition and cancellation procedures.

HM Land Registry (HMLR) has updated three practice guides: Practice Guide 4—Adverse possession of registered land, Practice Guide 9—Powers of attorney and registered land, and Practice Guide 31—Discharge of charges. HMLR has also updated five forms: K1—Land charge registration: application, ID1—Verify identity: citizen, ID2—Verify identity: corporate body, ID3—Certificate of identity for a private individual, and UN2—Unilateral notice: application to remove.

HM Land Registry (HMLR) has updated two practice guides: Practice Guide 63—The land charges registers and agricultural credits register: registration, official search, office copy and cancellation and Practice Guide 68—Amending deeds that effect dispositions of registered land. HMLR has also updated form K15—Land Charges official search: application.

HM Land Registry (HMLR) has updated its guidance on completing the evidence of identity panels on forms AP1, FR1 and DS2. A new section entitled Evidence of identity you must provide has been added to clarify the types of supporting identity evidence required for applications for registration, including the use of forms ID1, ID2, ID3 and ID5, rule 17 identity evidence and applicable exceptions set out in Practice Guide 67—Evidence of identity. The guidance has also been amended to reflect HMLR’s current identity policy, including the requirement for personal representatives who assent or transfer land to provide evidence of identity, and to clarify how the confirmation of identity panels on forms AP1, FR1 and DS2 should be completed where no conveyancer is acting.

HM Land Registry (HMLR) has updated its guidance on the Provision of Information (Contractual Control) (Registered Land) Regulations 2026, SI 2026/615 to include a detailed list of the information that must be submitted when reporting contractual control agreements to HMLR. The additions specify the required details relating to the agreement, the parties, the contractual control right and the land affected.

HM Land Registry (HMLR) has updated Practice Guide 75 on transfers under a chargee's power of sale. Section 2.2.4 of the guidance has been revised to address the scenario in which an interest was initially protected by notice at the time of the charge's registration, where the notice was subsequently removed, but has been re-entered prior to the transfer under the lender’s power of sale. The guidance aims to provide clarity for lenders and conveyancers handling such transfers.

HM Land Registry (HMLR) has updated Practice Guide 19—Notices, restrictions and protection of third-party interests. Section 2.5.3 has been amended to include court orders for sale as an example of an application based on evidence rather than consent.

HM Land Registry (HMLR) has updated Practice Guide 26—Leases: determination. Sections 7.1 and 10.1 have been amended to remove the requirement to provide a copy of the termination notice when a lease terminates by effluxion of time.

HM Land Registry (HMLR) has updated Practice Guide 26—Leases: determination. Sections 7 and 10 have been amended to address circumstances where a lease being determined is protected by the Electronic Communications Code.

HM Land Registry (HMLR) has updated Practice Guide 40s5—HMLR plans: title plan. Section 11 has been amended to include an example showing how ‘brace’ plan references may be used on title plans.

HM Land Registry (HMLR) has updated Practice Guide 4—Adverse possession of registered land and Practice Guide 29—Registration of legal charges and deeds of variation of charge.