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What is Form AS1?

When someone dies owning a registered property, their personal representatives (the executors named in the will, or administrators if there's no will) deal with it. If the property is going to a beneficiary rather than being sold, the usual way to pass it on is an assent. Form AS1 is HM Land Registry's assent for the whole of one or more registered titles.

The AS1 names the property, the person who died, the personal representatives and the new owner, gives the new owner's address for service, and records how they'll hold it if there's more than one of them. The personal representatives then sign it in front of a witness. It's sent to HM Land Registry with an application to change the register, form AP1.

FileIt asks each panel in plain English, shows the company boxes only when a company is involved, and prints your answers onto HM Land Registry's own AS1 PDF. It lays out a signing block for each personal representative in panel 12, and can add the conveyancer's certificate wording from the form. You print it, sign it with a witness and send it yourself. FileIt never submits anything.

Who fills it: The personal representatives (executors or administrators) of a registered owner who has died
Sent with: Form AP1, to HM Land Registry
Covers: The whole of one or more registered titles in England and Wales
Signatures: Every personal representative, usually with a witness. Transferees too if panel 10 or transferee covenants apply
Edition: AS1 (04/24)

Who needs to fill out Form AS1?

Executors passing a house or flat to a beneficiary named in the will.
Administrators passing a property to the person entitled under the intestacy rules.
A personal representative who is also the beneficiary, assenting the property to themselves.
Personal representatives passing a property to two or more beneficiaries, who then say how they'll hold it.

When to use Form AS1

After the grant of probate or letters of administration, once the property is ready to pass to the beneficiary.
For the whole of a registered title. Part of a title, or unregistered land, uses different forms.
When the property passes to the beneficiary rather than being sold (a sale uses a transfer instead).

What you need before you start

The title number(s) and the property's address or description.
The full name of the person who died, and the full names of every personal representative assenting.
The full names of the beneficiaries to be registered, and their address or addresses for service.
If there's more than one beneficiary, how they'll hold the property: as joint tenants, as tenants in common in equal shares, or on other trust terms.
A witness for each signature, and the grant of probate or letters of administration (or a conveyancer's certificate).

What’s on Form AS1

The 2024 edition has 4 pages. FileIt asks for it in 7 parts:

The propertyApplicant
The personal representative(s)Personal representative(s)
The new owner (transferee)Applicant
Title guarantee and trustApplicant
Additional provisionsApplicant
Execution (panel 12)Applicant
Execution extrasApplicant

How to fill out Form AS1, step by step

1 Panels 1 to 5: the property and the people

The title numbers, the property, the date, the name of the deceased owner and the names of all the personal representatives. If a personal representative is a company, give its registered number, or for an overseas entity its territory and Companies House IDs.

2 Panels 6 and 7: the new owner

Everyone to be registered as proprietor, any company details, and their intended addresses for service. Each new owner can give up to three, one of which must be a postal address.

3 Panels 8 and 9: the transfer and title guarantee

Panel 8 is printed wording: the personal representative transfers the property. In panel 9, tick full or limited title guarantee if one applies, and add any changes to it.

4 Panel 10: declaration of trust

Only for two or more new owners. Choose joint tenants, tenants in common in equal shares, or describe other trust terms. The form's side note explains when HM Land Registry adds a Form A restriction.

5 Panels 11 and 12: additional provisions and execution

Panel 11 holds anything else, such as covenants, and a conveyancer can add the form's certificate about the grant. Panel 12 is where each personal representative signs, usually in front of a witness who adds their name and address. FileIt prints a block for each signer.

Common mistakes to avoid

Leaving out one of the personal representatives: if there is more than one, all must sign.
Dating the assent before it has been signed and witnessed. The form says to date it on completion.
Not completing panel 10 when two or more beneficiaries will own the property, or the transferees not signing when it's completed.
Forgetting the address for service, or giving none that's a postal address.
Sending the AS1 without an AP1 and the supporting documents.

After you fill it out

Print the form. Each personal representative signs panel 12 in front of a witness. Then add the date in panel 3.

Send it to HM Land Registry with form AP1, the fee and the documents HM Land Registry's guidance lists, such as a certified copy of the grant. FileIt doesn't send anything for you.

HM Land Registry updates the register to show the new owner. Keep copies of the AS1, AP1 and the new register in FileIt.

Fill out Form AS1 online with FileIt

Pick the person. Choose someone from People and FileIt fills in their name, date of birth, address and other details it already knows.
Answer plain-language questions. One part of the form at a time, with the official help text beside each question — 29 fields in all. Your answers save as you go.
Check the live preview. Watch your answers land on the real HM Land Registry form, and let FileIt do any worksheet arithmetic.
Generate the official PDF. FileIt prints your answers into the agency’s own PDF and files it in that person’s folder in your vault.

FileIt fills the form — it never files or submits anything for you. Deliver the finished form to whoever asked for it, the way the form’s instructions say.

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Form AS1: frequently asked questions

What is an AS1 form?

It's HM Land Registry's assent form: the document personal representatives use to pass the whole of a registered property to the person entitled to it after the owner's death.

Does an assent have to be a deed?

The 2024 edition's side notes make clear an assent doesn't need to be a deed. FileIt lets you choose 'Signed by' or 'Signed as a deed by' for the execution blocks. HM Land Registry's practice guide 8 shows the forms of execution.

Do all the executors have to sign?

Panel 5 asks for all the personal representatives assenting, and the side note to panel 12 says that if there's more than one, all must execute.

Do I send it on its own?

No. It goes to HM Land Registry with an application to change the register (form AP1), the fee and the supporting documents.

What's the difference between joint tenants and tenants in common?

Joint tenants own the whole property together, and if one dies the other takes it all. Tenants in common each own a share they can leave in a will. GOV.UK's 'Joint property ownership' guide explains more, and a conveyancer can advise.

Official sources

Blank form (PDF), published by HM Land Registry: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6620d1c109ee0861b6757d3a/AS1__2024-04-22_.pdf
Official instructions and guidance: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/whole-of-registered-title-assent-as1/guidance-how-to-complete-form-as1
Edition shown on this page: AS1 (04/24) (checked 2026-10-19).

FileIt is not affiliated with or endorsed by HM Land Registry or any government. This page explains the form in general terms and is not legal, tax or immigration advice. Always read the official instructions, and check that you are using the edition the recipient accepts. Page last reviewed 2026-10-19.