England and Wales February 2023 Transaction Data from HM Land Registry

The February 2023 Transaction Data provides information on number and types of applications that HM Land Registry completed February 2023.

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 February:
    • HM Land Registry completed 1,771,870 applications to change or query the Land Register
    • the South East topped the table of regional applications with 400,069
HM Land Registry completed 1,771,870 applications in February compared with 1,777,649 in January and 1,870,826 last February 2022, of which:
    • 340,617 were applications for register updates compared with 362,305 in January
    • 973,175 were applications for an official copy of a register compared with 942,328 in January
    • 187,783 were search and hold queries (official searches) compared with 214,107 in January
    • 17,653 were postal applications from non-account holders compared with 17,251 in January
Applications by region and country:

Region/country

December applications

January applications

February applications

South East

323,045

410,280

400,069

Greater London

252,456

330,088

329,084

North West

170,630

203,067

205,969

South West

136,977

170,767

169,368

West Midlands

119,637

147,512

147,391

Yorkshire and the Humber

114,473

143,880

141,519

East Midlands

103,794

129,084

126,839

North

72,789

90,565

88,003

East Anglia

59,543

73,366

74,583

Isles of Scilly

130

66

100

Wales

62,119

78,887

88,860

England and Wales (not assigned)

84

87

85

Total

1,415,677

1,777,649

1,771,870

 

Top 5 local authority areas:

February 2023 applications:

Birmingham

26,002

City of Westminster

24,045

Leeds

19,847

Buckinghamshire

19,199

Manchester

18,798

 

January 2023 applications:

Birmingham

25,933

City of Westminster

14,135

Leeds

20,644

Cornwall

18,054

Buckinghamshire

17,796

 

Top 5 local authority areas:

February 2023 applications:

InfoTrack Limited

131,016

Enact

29,808

O’Neill Patient

28,826

Nimbus Property Systems Limited

25,274

TM Group (UK) Ltd. (Search Choice)

19,393

 

January 2023 applications:

InfoTrack limited

125,305

Enact

33,793

O’Neill Patient

26,757

HBOS PLC Bank

19,381

Land Technologies Ltd.

18,297

 

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 March 2023 data will be published at 11 a.m. on Tuesday 25 April 2023.

 

Kindly shared by HM Land Registry

Main article photo courtesy of Pixabay