England and Wales November 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 November:
  • HM Land Registry completed more than 1,922,380 applications to change or query the Land Register
  • the South-East topped the table of regional applications with 443,183
  • HM Land Registry completed 1,922,381 applications in November compared with 1,888,991 in October and 1,840,720 last November 2021, of which:
  • 398,828 were applications for register updates compared with 357,746 in October
  • 970,759 were applications for an official copy of a register compared with 987,938 in October
  • 262,191 were search and hold queries (official searches) compared with 254,853 in October
  • 18,085 were postal applications from non-account holders compared with 17,549 in October
Applications by region and country:

Region/country

August applications

September applications

October applications

November applications

South-East

445,874

433,539

448,084

443,183

Greater London

347,679

339,112

346,800

356,798

North-West

229,211

212,493

212,060

216,690

South-West

188,943

181,976

187,071

187,625

West Midlands

160,791

152,981

156,400

160,474

Yorkshire and the Humber

151,191

148,471

148,718

153,636

East Midlands

137,921

133,880

133,720

141,574

North

94,197

90,738

91,642

98,149

East Anglia

81,525

79,689

78,873

78,922

Isles of Scilly

38

231

64

67

Wales

89,027

85,752

85,415

85,156

England and Wales (not assigned)

120

135

144

107

Total

1,926,517

1,858,997

1,888,991

1,922,381

 

Top 5 local authority areas:

November 2022 applications:

Birmingham

27,105

City of Westminster

24,850

Leeds

22,293

Cornwall

21,200

Buckinghamshire

19,776

 

October 2022 applications:

Birmingham

27,026

City of Westminster

22,542

Leeds

21,975

Cornwall

19,824

Buckinghamshire

19,530

 

Top 5 customers:

November 2022 applications:

InfoTrack Limited

145,646

Enact

43,365

O’Neill Patient

30,620

Optima Legal Services

24,058

HBOS PLC Bank

23,213

 

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

 

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 December data will be published at 11am on Monday 23 January 2023.

 

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