I know this should properly go on legal but DIY often have a better grip of
such things.

I have a quandary.

My neighbour moved out rather strangely back at the end of November ,
having done a flit ( old lady house-sitting told me they had gone on
holiday).


I never saw the house up for sale or anything but suddenly in January new
neighbours knocked on my door and introduced themselves as the new
neighbours.

They were pretty vague about the last owners and even about themselves.
First they said they were renting, then they said they owned the house.

Anyway, being a nosy sort I looked up the sale of the house on one of those
land registry sites ( wondered how and what price they sold for since five
houses here have been up for sale for over two years and remain unsold - and
this house it seems was sold lock stock and barrel in a month and I never
even saw it advertised.

I cannot find the house listed on the sites even though every other house
which has sold in the village in the last five years is there.

Now I know there might be an error but its strange because the house was
also sold ( oddly) back in 2002 ( old neighbours moved to France). They
"sold" suddenly after having the house on the market for three years!

This bothers me a bit since new neighbour comes down one weekend a month but
still hasn't moved in but I hear say they are going to run a business in
Alpacas , including a visitor centre here ( next door to me!)

We live up a private ( unadopted) lane and I have to repair my own section
of lane. large numbers of visitors to alpaca haven would cause me great
expense.

Do they need planning permission to run a visitor centre( cant see them
needing it to graze alpaca on pasture land . Previous neighbour had a horse
there.

I know the above is a bit long but I would like to know
a) if the house has been sold

b) what my new - to be - neighbours may be up to.

Is he squatting and the house isn't yet his?

Is it simply a problem on the land registry?

Anyone seen anything like it before.