HM Land Registry publishes the Transaction Data for April 2023
HM Land Registry publishes the Transaction Data for April 2023 covering the number and types of applications in April 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 April:
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- HM Land Registry completed 1,595,150 applications to change or query the Land Register
- the South East topped the table of regional applications with 361,928
HM Land Registry completed 1,595,150 applications in April compared with 2,026,527 in March and 1,752,363 last April 2022, of which:
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- 290,723 were applications for register updates compared with 360,991 in March
- 873,601 were applications for an official copy of a register compared with 1,122,973 in March
- 162,894 were search and hold queries (official searches) compared with 218,147 in March
- 87,241 were transactions for value compared with 114,459 in March
- 17,267 were postal applications from non-account holders compared with 20,298 in March
Applications by region and country:
Region/country |
February applications |
March applications |
April applications |
South East |
400,069 |
459,168 |
361,928 |
Greater London |
329,084 |
377,552 |
295,648 |
North West |
205,969 |
229,986 |
182,653 |
South West |
169,368 |
196,094 |
155,150 |
West Midlands |
147,391 |
170,599 |
131,831 |
Yorkshire and the Humber |
141,519 |
161,442 |
128,048 |
East Midlands |
126,839 |
146,615 |
116,638 |
North |
88,003 |
102,426 |
79,557 |
East Anglia |
74,583 |
89,940 |
70,278 |
Isles of Scilly |
100 |
126 |
66 |
Wales |
88,860 |
92,483 |
73,278 |
England and Wales (not assigned) |
85 |
96 |
66 |
Total |
1,771,870 |
2,026,527 |
1,595,150 |
Top 5 local authority areas:
April 2023 applications
City of Westminster |
22,329 |
Birmingham |
22,131 |
Leeds |
18,883 |
North Yorkshire |
17,380 |
Cornwall |
16,329 |
March 2023 applications
Birmingham |
29,257 |
City of Westminster |
27,599 |
Leeds |
23,612 |
Cornwall |
20,937 |
Buckinghamshire |
20,331 |
Top 5 customers:
April 2023 applications
InfoTrack Limited |
126,004 |
Enact |
29,320 |
O’Neill Patient |
25,757 |
Landmark Information Group Ltd. |
19,038 |
Devonshires |
17,140 |
March 2023 applications
InfoTrack Limited |
163,054 |
Enact |
34,345 |
O’Neill Patient |
32,407 |
Landmark Information Group Ltd. |
22,774 |
Land Technologies Ltd. |
21,370 |
Access the full dataset on HM Land Registry’s Use land and property data service.
Next publication:
Transaction Data is published on the 15th working day of each month. The May 2023 data will be published at 11am on Wednesday 21 June 2023.
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