England and Wales August 2022 Transaction Data from HM Land Registry

The August 2022 Transaction Data provides information on number and types of applications that HM Land Registry completed in August 2022.

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 August:
    • HM Land Registry completed more than 1,926,510 applications to change or query the Land Register
    • the South East topped the table of regional applications with 445,874
HM Land Registry completed 1,926,517 applications in August compared with 1,894,807 in July and 1,659,680 last August 2021, of which:
    • 363,448 were applications for register updates compared with 370,643 in July
    • 1,025,643 were applications for an official copy of a register compared with 993,000 in July
    • 249,582 were search and hold queries (official searches) compared with 240,387 in July
    • 18,238 were postal applications from non-account holders compared with 17,425 in July
Applications by region and country:

Region/country

June applications

July applications

August applications

South East

433,271

444,212

445,874

Greater London

328,559

341,840

347,679

North West

210,768

217,498

229,211

South West

180,421

188,241

188,943

West Midlands

154,776

160,208

160,791

Yorkshire and the Humber

144,885

149,387

151,191

East Midlands

133,895

137,248

137,921

North

90,354

91,801

94,197

East Anglia

79,765

79,497

81,525

Isles of Scilly

36

48

38

Wales

82,294

84,723

89,027

England and Wales (not assigned)

94

104

120

Total

1,839,118

1,894,807

1,926,517

 

Top 5 local authority areas:

August 2022 applications:

Birmingham

27,221

City of Westminster

22,644

Leeds

22,013

Buckinghamshire

20,379

Cornwall

20,236

 

July 2022 applications:

Birmingham

26,853

Leeds

22,345

City of Westminster

21,690

Cornwall

21,380

Buckinghamshire

19,376

 

Top 5 customers:

August 2022 applications:

InfoTrack Limited

146,535

Enact

47,435

O’Neill Patient

30,317

Optima Legal Services

26,980

TM Group (UK) Ltd. (Search Choice)

22,154

 

July 2022 applications:

InfoTrack Limited

144,859

Enact

50,228

O’Neill Patient

30,896

Optima Legal Services

27,872

TM Group (UK) Ltd. (Search Choice)

22,853

 

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

 

Next publication:

Transaction Data is published on the 15th working day of each month. The September data will be published at 11am on Friday 21 October 2022.

 

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