Search for "title deeds" and the results are a wall of websites that look vaguely official, with names built from the words land, registry, deeds and UK in various orders. Most of them will sell you the title register for a property in England or Wales. So will HM Land Registry, for £7.
The difference is what you pay. On 12 August 2026 we went through ten of these sites and noted what they charge for the same documents. Where a site didn't publish a price, we've said so, because that turned out to be a finding in itself.
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What we found
| Document | HM Land Registry (gov.uk) | The ten sites we checked |
|---|---|---|
| Title register | £7 | £8.99 to £24.95 where advertised. Average £19.28 |
| Title register and title plan | £14 | £32.95 to £49.90 |
| Document "packs" | n/a | up to £99.95 |
Six of the ten sites publish their prices. The other four ask for the property address and your details first, and reveal the price at the payment step. One site's footer quietly notes that some of its documents "may be obtained direct from official sources for a lower fee", which is one way of putting it.
To be clear about what's being sold: it's the same document. An official copy of the title register comes from HM Land Registry regardless of who orders it. Paying £24.95 does not get you a better one.
Is any of this illegal?
Mostly not, and it's worth being straight about that. Reselling public documents at a markup is legal. Every site we looked at carries a disclaimer somewhere saying it isn't affiliated with HM Land Registry, although you may have to visit the footer to find it. The Competition and Markets Authority has taken an interest in lookalike websites over the years, and hiding the price until checkout sits awkwardly with consumer law on pricing transparency, but the basic business of charging £25 for a £7 document is not a scam. It's just expensive.
The market exists because these sites advertise and HM Land Registry doesn't. Type "title register" into a search engine and the paid results outrank gov.uk. Add the fact that ordering direct means creating a government account first, and a lot of people simply pay whatever the first convincing site asks.
How to spot a lookalike site
A few patterns showed up across all ten:
- A domain name assembled from official-sounding words, sometimes uncomfortably close to the registry's own
- No price on the page. If you have to enter the property address before you see a number, the number is unlikely to be £7
- A disclaimer in the footer, in small print, saying the site is not HM Land Registry
- "Packs" and "bundles" at £50 to £100 that combine documents costing £7 each
- Add-ons at checkout: paper copies, expedited service, area reports
None of these are crimes. All of them are signs you're about to overpay.
What the documents actually cost
The official fees, set by the Land Registration Fee Order: £7 for a digital copy of the title register, £7 for the title plan, and £7 for each filed deed ordered digitally. Postal applications cost £11 per document. That's it. Anything above those numbers is margin.
Where we fit in, and what we charge
BuyLand.co.uk sells these documents too, so you should know how we price them before taking our word for any of this. The title register is £7.50: the £7 HM Land Registry fee plus 50p card processing. Register and plan together is £15. Filed deeds are £7.50 each. We don't mark the documents up, and you can check every price against the table above.
We can afford to do that because documents aren't our business. Our business is land and property due diligence, mainly the Plot Report, which runs thirty-five checks on a plot before you buy it. Documents are something our customers need along the way, and we'd rather they didn't get stung for them.
What you get for the extra 50p is the part we do think is worth something. There's no account to create. The search is on the page, you find the property, you pay, and the documents arrive by email, usually within minutes during Land Registry service hours. Every order includes a plain-English summary, because a charges register written in land law is not light reading, and knowing what the covenants actually mean is the point of ordering the thing. And if you get stuck finding the right title, there's a phone number (020 4652 9547) and an email answered by people who do this all day.
If you'd rather go direct to gov.uk and save the 50p, genuinely, do. The link is here. What we'd suggest you don't do is pay £25 to a site that found you through an advert.
Prices checked 12 August 2026 across ten independent document websites. We'll re-run the audit periodically and update this page when the numbers change.