{"id":626879,"date":"2026-10-11T01:14:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T01:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/626879\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T01:14:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T01:14:16","slug":"norfolk-has-52-unclaimed-estates-waiting-for-rightful-heirs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/626879\/","title":{"rendered":"Norfolk has 52 unclaimed estates waiting for rightful heirs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  When somebody dies leaving no will or without identifiable blood relatives and known family, the Treasury takes hold of their home and estate.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The estates can range from modest savings to very significant sums.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  If nobody claims the estate within 12 years, it becomes property of the Crown.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The Treasury Solicitor has recently updated its official register of ownerless property.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Anyone who believes they may be related to someone on the list is advised to visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/guidance\/make-a-claim-to-a-deceased-persons-estate?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">gov.uk\/guidance\/make-a-claim-to-a-deceased-persons-estate<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Here is the updated round-up of the 52 estates waiting to be snapped up in Norfolk.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Is your surname on the list?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When somebody dies leaving no will or without identifiable blood relatives and known family, the Treasury takes hold&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":626880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[138,246,111,139,69,244,245],"class_list":["post-626879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-business","tag-finance","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}