Old share certificates. A bank account from a previous life. A company dissolved twenty years ago that still owned something. A pension from a job in the seventies. Executors are expected to gather in the whole estate, and the whole estate is rarely in the paperwork left behind. We find the rest.
Bank and building society accounts. Shareholdings, lost certificates and unclaimed dividends held by registrars. Pensions and life policies. Property and land in either jurisdiction. Interests in companies, including dissolved companies whose assets passed to the Crown and can be recovered by restoration.
A written schedule of assets found, with the evidence and the route to reclaim each one. Where reclaiming needs a process, restoration of a dissolved company for instance, we run it. Where it needs a solicitor, ours are already in place.
Fixed fee search, quoted on instruction, or a percentage of what is recovered where the estate would rather not fund fees up front.
Executors and administrators instruct most often, but families can instruct a search before confirmation or probate to know what the estate contains.
The written schedule says so, and the estate has certainty. On percentage terms, you pay nothing.
Yes. Confirmation, the KLTR and the Scottish registers are home ground.
An initial search within ten working days; recoveries run at the pace of the institutions involved.
The deceased's name, dates, last addresses, and anything you already suspect. We confirm scope and fee the same day.