How to register the purchase of a lease

We purchased the lease from the leaseholder in 2010.  In making a change via our solicitors for tenants in common we note the lease is still recorded.  What do we have to do to register our purchase?  I have the 'Chief Rent Purchase Certificate' from the lessor.

Barry - if you purchased a registered lease then the tenant/owner would need to transfer the ownership/title to you -&#160;<a href="https://www.gov.uk/registering-land-or-property-with-land-registry/transfer-ownership-of-your-property">Registering land or property with HM Land Registry: Change the registered owner name - GOV.UK</a>

Thanks Adam, but I'm a little confused.&#160; We are the property owners already and are mortgage free.&#160; This came up when we did our wills recently and protected our son's inheritance by putting the property into a trust.&#160; The resultant letter from HMLR identified the land rent as still being in force, which it isn't.&#160; It is this that I want to correct, not the title to the property, we already have that.

Barry - your confusion is shared as I'm unclear as to what letter we would be issuing that refers to 'land rent'&#160;<br> What's the title number on our letter please and what was it's date?

Hi Adam,&#160; You didn't issue the letter - the Lessor did.&#160; We paid them £300 in 2010 to buy the lease from them.&#160; We have their confirmation letter of discharge.&#160; I just need to know how to present this evidence that we are now Freehold to the Land Registry so it can be removed from our Title.&#160; Hopefully that explains it better.

Hi Barry - unfortunately it doesn't explain things any better. The Lessor will be the freeholder/landlord/superior title holder.<br> If you bought the freehold to your lease then they would have had to transfer the freehold title to you. And I assume by remove you mean you then want to merge (close) your lease and simply own the freehold.<br> If they have sold/transferred the freehold title to you then our online guidance explains how to apply to register that -&#160;<a href="https://www.gov.uk/registering-land-or-property-with-land-registry/transfer-ownership-of-your-property">Registering land or property with HM Land Registry: Change the registered owner name - GOV.UK</a>&#160;<br> What also doesn't make sense includes why that didn't happen in 2010

Hi Adam, thanks for the explanation.&#160; I think I'll write back to the 'Ground Rent Specialists Company' and ask why they haven't transferred the freehold title to us.&#160; Their letter simply says keep the certificate with our deeds but now everything is electronic we need to ensure the freehold is reflected on the title to the property.&#160; Many thanks for your help.