Prompted to do so by feedback from customers, Land Registry is focusing on enhancing its e-conveyancing programme to streamline the online process.
Head of Land Registry's Business Transformation Programme, Alasdair Lewis, said: "We have already done much in-depth work with customers, testing the market, and our first priority must now be to introduce electronic discharges, charges and transfers - thus fully automating our core business of registering land.
"We recognise that this is a significant task and that it will not happen overnight. Therefore, in 2008, we will focus on delivery of electronic charges and electronic discharges, and pave the way for electronic transfers in 2009. We have concluded that these must be our next key steps.
"Chain transparency and funds transfer are still very much part of our long-term vision, but this must not deflect us from delivering core registration services electronically in the short term. We know we need to progress this first, while we consider developing further any products which will provide more chain transparency and facilitate the transfer of funds."
