UK's HM Land Registry process now accepts electronic signatures and e-witnesses

Wondering if e-signatures are legal for HMLR? This guide breaks down regulations, platform options, and how digital signing simplifies UK property transfers.

Conveyancers are the front runners to adapt streamlined, technology-driven processes. One of the most important developments in the real estate industry is the adoption of electronic signatures, or e-signatures, in the HM Land Registry operations.
Implementing e-signatures for land registration helps conveyancers speed up the contract execution process by eliminating the cost involved with printing and maintaining executed contracts. 

This blog explores how an e-signature solution like Zoho Sign can help conveyancers stay ahead in a competitive and paperless market.

How can Zoho Sign help?

Zoho Sign allows conveyancers to electronically sign and witness agreements, sales deeds, and other documents. This solution is designed to help individuals adhere to the guidelines set forth by the HM Land Registry, offering advanced features such as the electronic addition of witnesses and secure signer authentication. From a legal standpoint, e-signatures and witness signing ensure a secure document signing process is in place.

Zoho Sign also offers advanced and qualified electronic signatures (AES and QES), which require an additional recipient authentication before issuing a certificate.

Witness signing

Conveyancers can now upload a document in Zoho Sign, input relevant details, and add up to two witnesses who can be specified by either the conveyancer or the signer.

Learn how a conveyancer can use witness signing

Signer authentication

Zoho Sign lets conveyancers authenticate their signers in one of four authentication methods—email OTP, SMS OTP, EU eID methods, or offline OTP—which can be selected when sending documents to recipients, depending on the level of confidentiality.

Evidence of document signing

Every document sent by a conveyancer through Zoho Sign contains a completion certificate and a tamper-proof audit trail that covers details from document creation to your recipient, including the authentication method enforced by the conveyancer and the IP address and type of device used sign documents—all of which are readily available to the signing party once they finish signing the document.

If you're interested in Zoho Sign, you can sign up for a free 14-day Enterprise trial. Or, if you’re a conveyancer and want to discuss our software in detail with us, you can email us at support@zohosign.com (if you reside outside the EU) or support@eu.zohosign.com (if you reside in the EU). 

You can also drop a comment below. Our technical assistance team at Zoho Sign is available around the clock to assist you at no additional cost, and we’d love to tell you more. 

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