We hold and maintain 23 public registers relating to land and property ownership in Scotland.
The Land Register of Scotland is our main register, recording ownership of land and property in Scotland.
Set up in 1617, the sasine register is the oldest national public land register in the world.
The Register of Persons Holding a Controlled Interest in Land (RCI) is a RoS register, required by law.
The Moveable Transactions (Scotland) Act 2023 has modernised the law in Scotland in relation to transferring claims and taking security over moveable property through the creation of two new RoS registers.
Maintained by Registers of Scotland for the Scottish government.
Maintained by Registers of Scotland (RoS) for the Scottish government.
A public register of crofts, common grazings, and land held runrig.
Records of sites that show the best of Scotland’s natural heritage.
A register of community bodies' applications to buy land.
A register allowing certain individuals and types of body to register their interests in buying land.
The official register for landlords in Scotland.
The official register for letting agents in Scotland.
A register of legal documents affecting people's ability to grant deeds relating to land.
A register containing certificates of judgment from certain countries.
A register of preservation and execution for paper deeds and deeds signed with a QES.
A record of deeds in which payment is sought as a result of a previous unfulfilled agreement.
A register of official documents that have been granted royal assent.
A register recording grants of property that have fallen to the Crown.
Details of royal warrants authenticated with a facsimile of the monarch's signature.
A record of commissions made by the Crown in favour of the Sheriffs Principal of Scotland.
A register of deeds relating to Crown property in Scotland granted by or to certain government departments.
Records of Service of Heirs, which allow relatives of deceased people to inherit property.
A record of deeds granted by the Prince and Steward of Scotland.
This register contains records of Letters of Horning, which publicly denounced a debtor as an outlaw.
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