Re: Henry VI, Part 2!
Conveyancing is another area ripe for automation - all those crappy, expensive, painfully slow manual land searches and the turgid sale bureaucracy for housing is utterly unnecessary in this day and age
It is significantly more automated at present than you think. The entire land register has been electronic for a few years now.
It was if memory serves me right a EU requirement and it was done across all countries. As I actually own my house (not the bank owning it), I got the notice that all paperwork is destroyed and converted to electronic form. Can't remember when this was, but it was a while back in the UK. For the properties I own outside the UK it was 4+ years ago. I suspect that as you most likely do not have your title deeds (the bank has them) you never got it.
The planning register is now also fully electronic and publicly accessible (at least where I live).
There is in fact very little of the old bureaucracy left in both and searching is indeed done in minutes.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
