HM Land Registry Transaction Data for February 2024 published

HM Land Registry Transaction Data for February 2024 has been published, providing information about the number and types of applications that HM Land Registry completed in February 2024.

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 more than 1,900,950 applications to change or query the Land Register 
    • the South East topped the table of regional applications with 424,357
HM Land Registry completed 1,900,950 applications in February compared with 1,883,137 in January and 1,771,870 last February 2023, of which: 
    • 282,642 were applications for register updates compared with 298,750 in January
    • 1,121,090 were applications for an official copy of a register compared with 1,095,216 in January
    • 174,348 were search and hold queries (official searches) compared with 182,512 in January
    • 84,061 were transactions for value compared with 84,996 in January
    • 20,293 were postal applications from non-account holders compared with 19,296 in January
Applications by region and country:

Region/country

December applications

January applications

February applications

South-East

300,944

424,357

431,719

Greater London

252,332

356,173

359,378

North-West

152,088

206,193

215,042

South-West

128,926

182,662

180,916

West Midlands

112,618

159,365

157,910

Yorkshire and the Humber

108,989

147,023

149,606

East Midlands

97,518

134,913

138,195

North

65,817

93,519

95,557

East Anglia

56,794

81,326

83,153

Isles of Scilly

84

58

97

Wales

59,619

97,459

89,265

England and Wales (not assigned)

63

89

112

Total

1,335,792

1,883,137

1,900,950

 

Top 5 local authority areas – February 2024 applications:

Birmingham

28,779

City of Westminster

27,142

Leeds

22,892

North Yorkshire

20,769

Buckinghamshire

19,402

 

Top 5 local authority areas – January 2024 applications:

Birmingham

29,114

City of Westminster

25,512

Leeds

21,020

North Yorkshire

20,995

Cornwall

19,630

 

Top 5 customers – February 2024 applications:

InfoTrack Limited

163,962

Orbital Witness Limited

36,299

Enact

34,227

O’Neill Patient

31,396

Landmark Information Group Ltd.

29,756

 

Top 5 customers – January 2024 applications:

InfoTrack Limited

152,053

Enact

29,412

O’Neill Patient

28,640

Devonshires

28,128

Landmark Information Group Ltd.

24,951

 

 

Kindly shared by HM Land Registry