England and Wales September 2021 Transaction Data from HM Land Registry

The September 2021 Transaction Data provides information about the number and types of applications that HM Land Registry completed in September 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 September:
  • HM Land Registry completed more than 1,818,450 applications to change or query the Land Register
  • the South East topped the table of regional applications with 424,401
  • HM Land Registry completed 1,818,473 applications in September compared with 1,659,680 in August and 1,704,591 last September 2020, of which:
  • 327,628 were applications for register updates compared with 295,540 in August
  • 937,950 were applications for an official copy of a register compared with 886,226 in August
  • 286,641 were search and hold queries (official searches) compared with 224,582 in August
  • 15,810 were postal applications from non-account holders compared with 15,465 in August

Applications by region and country

Region/country July applications August applications September applications
South East 419,988 383,237 424,401
Greater London 323,772 292,204 321,826
North West 205,529 196,939 209,155
South West 179,015 162,228 178,351
West Midlands 152,818 141,022 154,365
Yorkshire and the Humber 141,689 133,245 145,006
East Midlands 130,392 119,935 134,926
North 88,118 83,033 87,555
East Anglia 76,628 70,143 76,534
Isles of Scilly 68 47 56
Wales 83,927 77,548 86,209
England and Wales (not assigned) 93 99 89
Total 1,802,037 1,659,680 1,818,473

 

Top 5 local authority areas

September 2021 applications

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

 

August 2021 applications

Birmingham 24,853
Leeds 19,956
City of Westminster 18,865
Cornwall 17,585
Buckinghamshire 16,215

 

Top 5 customers

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

 

August 2021 applications

Infotrack Limited 105,872
Enact 38,374
O’Neill Patient 26,291
Optima Legal Services 21,796
TM Group (UK) Limited (Search Choice) 21,751

 

Access the data

Access the full dataset on our Use land and property data service.

 

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

 

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