{"id":628513,"date":"2026-10-12T18:04:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T18:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/628513\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T18:04:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T18:04:14","slug":"suffolk-has-44-unclaimed-estates-waiting-for-rightful-heirs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/628513\/","title":{"rendered":"Suffolk has 44 unclaimed estates waiting for rightful heirs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  When somebody with no will or known family dies, The Treasury takes hold of their home and estate.\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, with 44 estates unclaimed in Suffolk.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Anyone who believes they may be related to someone on the list is advised to visit gov.uk\/guidance\/make-a-claim-to-a-deceased-persons-estate.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  This is an updated list of all the unclaimed estates in Suffolk, with a fortune waiting to be snapped up.\n<\/p>\n<p>  Unclaimed estates by place of death<\/p>\n<p>  How can I make a claim?<\/p>\n<p>\n  When making a claim on an estate, you will need to provide a family tree showing your relationship and two pieces of identification.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  You may also be asked to send birth, death or marriage certificates.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  If you are not a relative, you can still apply for a grant from the estate if you lived together but were not married, for example.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When somebody with no will or known family dies, The Treasury takes hold of their home and estate.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628514,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[138,246,111,139,69,244,245],"class_list":["post-628513","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\/628513","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=628513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}