February Transaction Data from HM Land Registry

February Transaction Data: HM Land Registry completed more than 1,632,960 applications to change or query the Land Register, and the South East topped the table of regional applications with 376,385.

HM Land Registry received 1,632,969 applications in February compared with 1,782,088 in January and 1,516,596 last February, of which:
  • 376,546 were applications for register updates compared with 462,352 in January;
  • 796,961 were applications to get an official copy of a register compared with 825,613 in January;
  • 186,329 were search and hold queries (official searches) compared with 211,393 in January; and
  • 23,910 were postal applications from non-account holders, compared with 26,002 in January.

 

Region/country December applications January applications February applications
South East 287,649 403,526 376,385
Greater London 250,636 339,286 313,340
North West 139,168 222,150 185,253
South West 124,681 173,058 158,433
West Midlands 107,079 150,292 143,338
Yorkshire and the Humber 98,017 139,207 122,513
East Midlands 90,239 122,812 115,725
Wales 58,854 80,315 74,301
North 56,648 77,912 71,772
East Anglia 53,549 73,345 71,764
Isles of Scilly 79 110 75
England and Wales (not assigned) 42 75 70
Total 1,266,641 1,782,088 1,632,969

 

Top five

local authority areas

 December

applications

 January

applications

February

applications
Birmingham 19,714 Birmingham 27,561 Birmingham 26,256
City of Westminster 17,977 City of Westminster 25,488 City of Westminster 21,991
Leeds 14,262 Leeds 20,256 Leeds 18,730
Manchester 13,384 Manchester 19,350 Manchester 16,972
Cornwall 13,332 Cornwall 18,367 Cornwall 16,606

 

Top five

customers

 December

applications

 January

applications

February

applications
Enact 36,313 Enact 50,327 Enact 50,488
Optima Legal Services 19,826 Nationwide Building Society 31,589 Optima Legal Services 27,904
O’Neill Patient 19,764 Optima Legal Services 27,284 O’Neill Patient 23,851
HBOS PLC 16,649 O’Neill Patient 26,073 Devonshires 20,684
TM Group (UK) Ltd 16,444 My Home Move Limited 19,103 TM Group (UK) Ltd 19,558

 

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