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January 2023 Transaction Data

Land Registry

February 21
11:00 2023

Please note this data shows what HM Land Registry has been able to process during the time period covered and is not necessarily a reflection of market activity.

In January:

  • HM Land Registry completed more than 1,777,640 applications to change or query the Land Register
  • the South East topped the table of regional applications with 410,280

HM Land Registry completed 1,777,649 applications in January compared with 1,415,677 in December and 1,771,694 last January 2021, of which:

  • 362,305 were applications for register updates compared with 340,347 in December
  • 942,328 were applications for an official copy of a register compared with 652,093 in December
  • 214,107 were search and hold queries (official searches) compared with 226,087 in December
  • 17,251 were postal applications from non-account holders compared with 15,841 in December

Applications by region and country

Region/country November applications December applications January applications
South East 443,183 323,045 410,280
Greater London 356,798 252,456 330,088
North West 216,690 170,630 203,067
South West 187,625 136,977 170,767
West Midlands 160,474 119,637 147,512
Yorkshire and the Humber 153,636 114,473 143,880
East Midlands 141,574 103,794 129,084
North 98,149 72,789 90,565
East Anglia 78,922 59,543 73,366
Isles of Scilly 67 130 66
Wales 85,156 62,119 78,887
England and Wales (not assigned) 107 84 87
Total 1,922,381 1,415,677 1,777,649

Top 5 local authority areas

January 2023 applications

Top 5 local authority areas January applications
Birmingham 25,933
City of Westminster 24,135
Leeds 20,644
Cornwall 18,054
Buckinghamshire 17,796

December 2022 applications

Top 5 local authority areas December applications
Birmingham 20,806
City of Westminster 17,222
Leeds 17,084
Cornwall 15,122
Buckinghamshire 14,608

Top 5 customers

January 2023 applications

Top 5 customers January applications
Infotrack Limited 125,305
Enact 33,793
ONeill Patient 26,757
HBOS PLC Bank 19,381
Land Technologies Ltd 18,297

December 2022 applications

Top 5 customers December applications
Infotrack Limited 102,172
Enact 31,519
ONeill Patient 25,992
HBOS PLC Bank 17,095
Optima Legal Services 16,650

Access the full dataset on our Use land and property data service.

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