HM Land Registry publishes its Transaction Data for October 2023

HM Land Registry publishes Transaction Data October 2023, with information on number and types of applications completed in October 2023.

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 over 1,810,650 applications to change or query the Land Register
    • the South East topped the table of regional applications with 407,718
HM Land Registry completed 1,810,655 applications in October compared with 1,730,767 in September and 1,888,991 last October 2022, of which: 
    • 299,511 were applications for register updates compared with 304,718 in September
    • 1,017,051 were applications for an official copy of a register compared with 944,174 in September
    • 191,928 were search and hold queries (official searches) compared with 191,632 in September
    • 70,955 were transactions for value compared with 70,505 in September
    • 20,693 were postal applications from non-account holders compared with 18,469 in September
Applications by region and country:

Region/country

August applications

September applications

October applications

South East

404,443

389,691

407,718

Greater London

336,671

330,283

348,637

North West

202,217

196,701

201,915

South West

174,000

165,923

177,466

West Midlands

155,163

143,754

152,380

Yorkshire and the Humber

142,913

137,788

144,816

East Midlands

131,637

123,899

128,543

North

91,792

88,308

90,910

East Anglia

75,307

74,622

75,844

Isles of Scilly

97

74

69

Wales

81,157

79,630

82,251

England and Wales (not assigned)

93

94

106

Total

1,795,490

1,730,767

1,810,655

 

Top 5 local authority areas – October 2023 applications:

City of Westminster

27,823

Birmingham

27,438

Leeds

22,379

North Yorkshire

19,887

Cornwall

19,424

 

Top 5 local authority areas – September 2023 applications:

Birmingham

25,681

City of Westminster

25,416

Leeds

19,797

North Yorkshire

19,316

Cornwall

17,424

 

Top 5 customers – October 2023 applications:

InfoTrack Limited

151,752

Orbital Witness Limited

31,070

Enact

29,357

O’Neill Patient

25,266

Landmark

22,291

 

Top 5 customers – September 2023 applications:

InfoTrack Limited

143,412

Orbital Witness

29,027

Nationwide Building Society

26,641

Enact

26,455

O’Neill Patient

24,771

 

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 November 2023 data will be published at 11 a.m. on Thursday, 21 December 2023.

 

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