Title deeds showing a small part of our outbuilding is on our neighbours title.

<p>Not even sure how this has happened but we are unsure what to do.</p> <p>We are selling our grade 2 listed end terraced cottage built in 1865. The terrace has shared access at the back and a row of outbuildings at the back of each house that are all joined up. Each properties outbuilding is pretty much directly opposite the back door.</p> <p>The title deeds have shown that our outbuilding slightly goes over into our neighbours title. Not by much by about 2 m x 2&#160;m but on our title&#160;deeds our outbuilding somehow seems to encroaches onto what is theirs.&#160;<br> <br> We have been in this house 13 years and the owners before us were here 5 years and our direct neighbour who has lived next to us for 30 years says this outbuilding has always been exactly where it is so we don't understand how this has happened.&#160;</p> <p>Our buyers have picked up on this after examining the title. We didn't even notice it ourselves as its that small a discrepancy and the titles to our houses, built back in 1860 are so old. We are unsure if this has been done as an error long ago, or back when they were digitised.<br> <br> We are now being asked by our sellers solicitors to 'put this right' to continue with the sale, but we are unsure as to how we do this and what is the best way to correct this so we can continue with our sale.&#160;<br> <br> What do we do so that we can get this sale through?&#160;<br> <br> Do we go for adverse possession? A title change? A boundary agreement?&#160;<br> <br> Anyone that can advise?&#160;<br> <br> Our solicitor is currently trying to figure out what to do and how we best go about this but is needing to seek advice themselves.&#160;<br> &#160;</p> <button data-click-id="reaction_show_reactions:show-reactions" type=button>1</button>

Lucie - you need to rely on your conveyancer here as to what's the 'best' option
Claiming the land through adverse possession is one option as you state if you can prove ownership under the complexities of the law. The other option is to have the neighbour transfer the legal ownership to you. And a third option, if valid, is to raise it as a registration error if that's what it was.
The post suggests some uncertainty as to how it has happened so please do rely on your legal rep to check/confirm and advise

Thank you Adam. 

Would a boundary agreement between us and our neighbour be sufficient? Would this be an option? 

Lucie - not in my experience as such an agreement would only relate to how the boundaries are registered now. And your issue is that there is missing land so the registered information needs to be transferred/claimed as appropriate to match the reality on the ground. A boundary agreement does not do that and simply reaffirms what the title plans already show

Thanks for clarifying. 

We will go back to our solicitors with this information and hopefully we can find a way forward to rectify this.