England and Wales December Transaction Data from HM Land Registry

The December 2020 Transaction Data provides information about the number and types of applications that HM Land Registry completed in December 2020.

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 1,431,690 applications to change or query the Land Register
  • the South East topped the table of regional applications with 337,929
HM Land Registry completed 1,431,694 applications in December compared with 1,710,237 in November and 1,375,682 last December 2019, of which:
  • 272,475 were applications for register updates compared with 271,496 in November
  • 718,867 were applications for an official copy of a register compared with 935,949 in November
  • 221,840 were search and hold queries (official searches) compared with 216,933 in November
  • 14,029 were postal applications from non-account holders compared with 15,850 in November

 

Applications by region and country

Region/country October applications November applications December applications
South East 422,216 409,245 337,929
Greater London 325,631 314,597 259,272
North West 196,957 191,689 166,638
South West 174,310 170,214 141,011
West Midlands 148,009 143,935 121,054
Yorkshire and the Humber 134,139 135,951 111,242
East Midlands 124,686 122,093 102,151
North 82,547 80,300 67,269
East Anglia 75,586 72,154 61,473
Isles of Scilly 69 43 53
Wales 77,009 69,930 63,541
England and Wales (not assigned) 77 86 61
Total 1,761,236 1,710,237 1,431,694

 

Top 5 local authority areas

December applications

Birmingham 21,069
City of Westminster 17,307
Leeds 17,137
Buckinghamshire 15,282
Cornwall 14,724

 

November applications

Birmingham 24,481
City of Westminster 21,466
Leeds 20,003
Cornwall 17,912
Manchester 16,823

 

Top 5 customers

December applications

Infotrack Limited 80,703
Enact 32,972
TM Group (UK) Ltd (Search Choice) 24,696
Optima Legal Services 19,316
O’Neill Patient 18,654

 

November applications

Infotrack Limited 97,950
Enact 40,101
TM Group (UK) Ltd (Search Choice) 25,647
O’Neill Patient 23,826
Optima Legal Services 23,808

 

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Next publication

Transaction Data is published on the 15th working day of each month. The January data will be published at 11am on Friday 19 February 2021.

 

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