January 2018 Transaction Data from HM Land Registry

HM Land Registry completed more than 1,782,080 applications to change or query the Land Register, while the South East topped the table of regional applications with 403,526.

HM Land Registry completed 1,782,088 applications in January compared with 1,266,641 in December and 1,563,358 last January, of which:
  • 462,352 were applications to update existing titles compared with 319,721 in December; 825,613 were applications to obtain an official copy of a register compared with 551,427 in December;
  • 211,393 were official searches compared with 197,327 in December; and
  • 26,002 were postal applications from non-account holders, compared with 26,377 in December.

Applications by region and country

Region/country November applications December applications January applications
South East 408,756 287,649 403,526
Greater London 339,086 250,636 339,286
North West 200,475 139,168 222,150
South West 173,351 124,681 173,058
West Midlands 152,816 107,079 150,292
Yorkshire and the Humber 135,373 98,017 139,207
East Midlands 125,846 90,239 122,812
Wales 82,646 58,854 80,315
North 81,197 56,648 77,912
East Anglia 74,499 53,549 73,345
Isles of Scilly 92 79 110
England and Wales (not assigned) 86 42 75
Total 1,774,223 1,266,641 1,782,088

 

Top five local authority areas

Top five

local authority areas

November

applications

December

applications

January

applications

Birmingham 27,715 Birmingham 19,714 Birmingham 27,561
City of Westminster 23,565 City of Westminster 17,977 City of Westminster 25,488
Leeds 20,137 Leeds 14,262 Leeds 20,256
Cornwall 18,823 Manchester 13,384 Manchester 19,350
Manchester 18,542 Cornwall 13,332 Cornwall 18,367

 

Top five customers

Top five

customers

November

applications

December

applications

January

applications

Enact 49,360 Enact 36,313 Enact 50,327
Optima

Legal Services

25,532 Optima Legal Services 19,826 Nationwide Building Society 31,589
O’Neill Patient 24,260 O’Neill Patient 19,764 Optima Legal Services 27,284
TM Group (UK) Ltd 19,701 HBOS PLC 16,649 O’Neill Patient 26,073
HBOS

PLC

 

19,315 TM Group (UK) Ltd 16,444 My Home Move Limited 19,103

 

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