Legal briefing on contractual control agreements
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There is a new statutory requirement for companies and other undertakings to provide HM Land Registry with prescribed information about certain property agreements (known as contractual control agreements). The agreements affected are option agreements, pre-emption agreements, conditional contracts (conditional agreements for lease and sale contracts) and promotion agreements which are entered into from 8 June 2026 and control how registered land is transferred or let for development purposes.
The beneficiary/grantee of the agreement has the obligation to provide the information, although the information cannot be provided until 6 April 2027 when the new register goes live. Such information will be made public on this register, except for certain sensitive information.
The regulations are complex (including exemptions and certain ambiguities) and require careful analysis to determine whether an agreement is caught. This legal briefing provides answers to key questions and answers to assist the analysis.
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