England and Wales October 2022 Transaction Data from HM Land Registry

The October 2022 Transaction Data provides information on number and types of applications that HM Land Registry completed October 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 October:
    • HM Land Registry completed more than 1,888,990 applications to change or query the Land Register
    • the South-East topped the table of regional applications with 448,084
HM Land Registry completed 1,888,991 applications in October compared with 1,858,997 in September and 1,771,848last October 2021, of which:
    • 357,746 were applications for register updates compared with 344,290 in September
    • 987,938 were applications for an official copy of a register compared with 987,206 in September
    • 254,853 were search and hold queries (official searches) compared with 252,254 in September
    • 17,549 were postal applications from non-account holders compared with 16,285 in September
Applications by region and country:

Region/country

August applications

September applications

October applications

South-East

445,874

433,539

448,084

Greater London

347,679

339,112

346,800

North-West

229,211

212,493

212,060

South-West

188,943

181,976

187,071

West Midlands

160,791

152,981

156,400

Yorkshire and the Humber

151,191

148,471

148,718

East Midlands

137,921

133,880

133,720

North

94,197

90,738

91,642

East Anglia

81,525

79,689

78,873

Isles of Scilly

38

231

64

Wales

89,027

85,752

85,415

England and Wales (not assigned)

120

135

144

Total

1,926,517

1,858,997

1,888,991

 

Top 5 local authority areas:

October 2022 applications:

Birmingham

27,026

City of Westminster

22,542

Leeds

21,975

Cornwall

19,824

Buckinghamshire

19,530

 

September 2022 applications:

Birmingham

26,513

City of Westminster

21,247

Leeds

21,157

Cornwall

19,412

Buckinghamshire

19,219

 

Top 5 customers:

October 2022 applications:

InfoTrack Limited

148,454

Enact

46,350

O’Neill Patient

32,968

HBOS PLC Bank

25,454

Land Technologies Ltd.

24,929

 

September 2022 applications:

InfoTrack Limited

136,074

Enact

50,729

O’Neill Patient

33,785

Optima Legal Services

28,388

Land Technologies Ltd.

22,265

 

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 November data will be published at 11am on Wednesday 21 December 2022.

 

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