Hundreds of people in the UK could be heirs to fortunes right now without even knowing it.
Fortunes left by those who have passed away are sitting unclaimed, and will be taken by the Government if beneficiaries don't act.
Data reveals the names of people whose estates still to be taken, so relatives of any of these people could be set to gain thousands - perhaps without even realising.
In the UK, any estates which are not claimed after a person dies are taken and held by the Crown and Treasury. They are kept for 30 years where, if still unclaimed, become national property.
There are currently around 6,800 estates which belonged to people waiting to be claimed in this country, with hundreds added since the beginning of this year.
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London, unsurprisingly, is the region with the largest number of unclaimed estates. Some 2,177 estates from people either from, or connected, to the capital, are waiting to be taken - of which 99 were added since January.
There are around 600 estates being held for people with connections to the Yorkshire & Humber region, meanwhile.
Scotland also has nearly 100 estates sitting waiting, while Wales has 265.
One estate on the list has been waiting to be claimed for 10 years - 79-year-old Kathleen Smith from Greater Manchester died in Abergavanny, Wales, in November 2012.
Names of people who have recently passed away whose estates remain unclaimed include 69-year-old Alan Lees from Birmingham who died in March 2020, Barbara Hayles, 84, from Wakefield, West Yorkshire, who died in June this year, and 68-year-old Paul Hopton who died in Crewe in June 2021.
Others include 81-year-old Valerie Carrier who died in Dudley in March 2020, Frederick Sylvester, 80, who died in Wales in 2018 and 88-year-old Anthony Breslini died in Eastbourne, Sussex last year.
