Losing Your Competitive Edge In Property Development?

Property development is a competitive game, and central to this is confidentiality. Whether clients are looking to assemble a site across multiple titles with multiple landowners or enter into a sub-sale to flip a site, commercially sensitive information can make the difference between a deal stacking up or not.

However,  from 6 April 2027 the new “Provision of Information (Contractual Control) (Registered Land) Regulations 2026” are being introduced.

In summary these regulations mean that if you hold a right under an option agreement, conditional contract, pre-emption agreement, or promotion agreement over the whole or part of a registered freehold estate or a registered leasehold estate with 15 years or more remaining on the date on which the contractual right is granted, then you will be required to submit prescribed information about that right to HM Land Registry. The data will be published in a publicly searchable downloadable database from April 2028.