England and Wales December 2021 Transaction Data from HM Land Registry

The December 2021 Transaction Data provides information about the number and types of applications that HM Land Registry completed in December 2021.

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 December:
  • HM Land Registry completed more than 1,480,810 applications to change or query the Land Register
  • the South East topped the table of regional applications with 342,488
HM Land Registry completed 1,480,815 applications in December compared with 1,840,720 in November and 1,431,694 last December 2020, of which:
  • 338,689 were applications for register updates compared with 345,740 in November
  • 691,482 were applications for an official copy of a register compared with 973,605 in November
  • 228,687 were search and hold queries (official searches) compared with 241,525 in November
  • 13,528 were postal applications from non-account holders compared with 16,310 in November

Applications by region and country

Region/country October applications November applications December applications
South East 416,242 424,106 342,488
Greater London 318,722 339,450 273,030
North West 204,223 210,391 167,717
South West 174,735 179,377 146,922
West Midlands 147,428 153,843 123,723
Yorkshire and the Humber 141,442 145,836 116,586
East Midlands 128,444 133,801 108,948
North 85,165 89,629 71,029
East Anglia 74,178 79,696 63,055
Isles of Scilly 55 42 43
Wales 81,121 84,468 67,212
England and Wales (not assigned) 93 81 62
Total 1,771,848 1,840,720 1,480,815

 

Top 5 local authority areas

December 2021 applications

Birmingham 21,365
City of Westminster 17,224
Leeds 16,722
Cornwall 15,811
Buckinghamshire 15,453

 

November 2021 applications

Birmingham 26,401
City of Westminster 23,824
Leeds 20,943
Buckinghamshire 19,191
Cornwall 18,751

 

Top 5 customers

December 2021 applications

InfoTrack Limited 91,087
Enact 38,235
O’Neill Patient 27,347
Optima Legal Services 23,872
Devonshires 23,251

 

November 2021 applications

InfoTrack Limited 117,295
Enact 41,912
O’Neill Patient 33,107
Optima Legal Services 31,739
HBOS PLC Bank 18,556

 

Access the data

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 December data will be published at 11am on Monday 21 February 2022.

 

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