Buying Commercial Property · glossary

Certificate of title

The buyer's solicitors' signed statement to the lender of what their investigation found. The lender relies on it instead of investigating again, and the firm answers to the lender for it, so a partner signs it. It does not make the firm the lender's solicitors. Chapter 8 · see Report on title

Explained in Chapter 8, The Report on Title and the Bank, of Buying Commercial Property.

How it comes up, in Chapter 8
A certificate of title is the buyer's solicitors' signed statement to the lender of what their investigation found. It says who owns the Property, what burdens the title and what the searches showed. On the strength of it, Wharfedale accepts the building as its security. The partner signed it on the day Fellgate's board approved the purchase.
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