HM Land Registry publishes its Transaction Data for September 2023

HM Land Registry publishes its Transaction Data September 2023, with information on number and types of applications completed in September 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 1,730,760 applications to change or query the Land Register
    • the South East topped the table of regional applications with 389,691
HM Land Registry completed 1,730,767 applications in September compared with 1,795,490 in August and 1,858,990 last September 2022, of which:
    • 304,718 were applications for register updates compared with 296,622 in August
    • 944,174 were applications for an official copy of a register compared with 998,120 in August
    • 191,632 were search and hold queries (official searches) compared with 203,004 in August
    • 70,505 were transactions for value compared with 84,299 in August
    • 18,469 were postal applications from non-account holders compared with 17,388 in August
Applications by region and country:

Region/country

July applications

August applications

September applications

South East

403,108

404,443

389,691

Greater London

339,733

336,671

330,283

North West

210,538

202,217

196,701

South West

175,482

174,000

165,923

West Midlands

157,296

155,163

143,754

Yorkshire and the Humber

150,961

142,913

137,788

East Midlands

132,818

131,637

123,899

North

93,063

91,792

88,308

East Anglia

74,886

75,307

74,622

Isles of Scilly

68

97

74

Wales

84,133

81,157

79,630

England and Wales (not assigned)

87

93

94

Total

1,822,173

1,795,490

1,730,767

 

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 local authority areas – August 2023 applications:

Birmingham

28,246

City of Westminster

24,501

Leeds

21,352

North Yorkshire

20,273

Buckinghamshire

18,084

 

Top 5 customers – September 2023 applications:

InfoTrack Limited

143,412

Orbital Witness Limited

29,027

Nationwide Building Society

26,641

Enact

26,455

O’Neill Patient

24,771

 

Top 5 customers – August 2023 applications:

InfoTrack Limited

149,571

Enact

29,197

Orbital Witness Limited

27,780

O’Neill Patient

25,099

Landmark Information Group

28,806

 

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

Next publication:

Transaction Data is published on the 15th working day of each month. The October 2023 data will be published at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, 21 November 2023.

 

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