Sir, need your guidance on this situation.

I am aiming to buy a "project car". To my knowledge, the car has been in the garage for 10 years now and I suspect that it has not been registered to LTO since the owner (whose name is in the OR/CR) has been gone now.

I understand that late registration will hit me a "late registration" penalty charge. which should be OK.

How about the transfer of ownership, how should this be handled if the owner is gone?

Need to do this assessment before making a formal offer.

Hope to hear from you sir.