England and Wales October 2021 Transaction Data from HM Land Registry

The October 2021 Transaction Data provides information about the number and types of applications that HM Land Registry completed in October 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 October:
  • HM Land Registry completed more than 1,771,800 applications to change or query the Land Register
  • the South East topped the table of regional applications with 416,242
HM Land Registry completed 1,771,848 applications in October compared with 1,818,473 in September and 1,761,236 last October 2020, of which:
  • 341,065 were applications for register updates compared with 327,628 in September
  • 952, 922 were applications for an official copy of a register compared with 937,950 in September
  • 223,284 were search and hold queries (official searches) compared with 286,641 in September
  • 16,368 were postal applications from non-account holders compared with 15,810 in September

Applications by region and country

Region/country August applications September applications October applications
South East 383,237 383,237 416,242
Greater London 292,204 292,204 318,722
North West 196,939 196,939 204,223
South West 162,228 162,228 174,735
West Midlands 141,022 141,022 147,428
Yorkshire and the Humber 133,245 133,245 141,442
East Midlands 119,935 119,935 128,444
North 83,033 83,033 85,165
East Anglia 70,143 70,143 74,178
Isles of Scilly 47 47 55
Wales 77,548 77,548 81,121
England and Wales (not assigned) 99 99 93
Total 1,659,680 1,659,680 1,771,848

 

Top 5 local authority areas

October 2021 applications

Birmingham 25,637
City of Westminster 22,426
Leeds 19,870
Buckinghamshire 18,390
Cornwall 18,150

 

September 2021 applications

Birmingham 26,151
Leeds 22,110
City of Westminster 21,377
Cornwall 18,919
Buckinghamshire 18,803

 

Top 5 customers

October 2021 applications

InfoTrack Limited 114,963
Enact 41,978
O’Neill Patient 33,468
Optima Legal Services 33,095
TM Group (UK) Ltd. 20,939

 

September 2021 applications

InfoTrack Limited 117,399
Enact 43,548
O’Neill Patient 31,542
Optima Legal Services 29,582
My Home Move Limited 21,997

 

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Next publication

Transaction Data is published on the 15th working day of each month. The November data will be published at 11am on Monday 20 December 2021.

 

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