December 2017 Transaction Data from HM Land Registry

  • HM Land Registry completed more than 1,266,640 applications to change or query the Land Register

  • The South East topped the table of regional applications with 287,649

HM Land Registry received 1,266,641 applications in December compared with 1,774,223 in November and 1,271,984 last December, of which:
  • 319,721 were applications to update existing titles compared with 411,092 in November;
  • 551,427 were applications to obtain an official copy of a register compared with 834,546 in November;
  • 197,327 were official searches compared with 238,129 in November; and
  • 26,377 were postal applications from non-account holders, compared with 30,948 in November.

 

Region/country October applications November applications December applications
South East 407,148 408,756 287,649
Greater London 329,865 339,086 250,636
North West 195,045 200,475 139,168
South West 168,802 173,351 124,681
West Midlands 145,121 152,816 107,079
Yorkshire and the Humber 135,347 135,373 98,017
East Midlands 120,689 125,846 90,239
Wales 80,938 82,646 58,854
North 82,710 81,197 56,648
East Anglia 74,202 74,499 53,549
Isles of Scilly 106 92 79
England and Wales (not assigned) 95 86 42
Total 1,740,068 1,774,223 1,266,641

 

Top five

local authority areas

October

applications

November

applications

December

applications

Birmingham 26,232 Birmingham 27,715 Birmingham 19,714
City of Westminster 24,087 City of Westminster 23,565 City of Westminster 17,977
Leeds 19,895 Leeds 20,137 Leeds 14,262
Manchester 17,810 Cornwall 18,823 Manchester 13,384
Cornwall 17,794 Manchester 18,542 Cornwall 13,332

 

 

Top five

customers

October

applications

November

applications

December

applications

Enact 48,058 Enact 49,360 Enact 36,313
O’Neill Patient 24,610 Optima

Legal Services

25,532 Optima Legal Services 19,826
Optima Legal Services 23,721 O’Neill Patient 24,260 O’Neill Patient 19,764
Eversheds LLP 20,980 TM Group (UK) Ltd 19,701 HBOS PLC 16,649
Barclays Bank PLC 19,123 HBOS

PLC

 

19,315 TM Group (UK) Ltd 16,444

 

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