HM Land Registry Transaction Data for August 2024 published

HM Land Registry Transaction Data for August 2024 published, providing number and types of applications completed in the month.

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 August:
    • HM Land Registry completed more than 1,876,210 applications to change or query the Land Register 
    • the South East topped the table of regional applications with 425,070
HM Land Registry completed 1,876,215 applications in August compared with 2,092,554 in July and 1,795,490 last August 2023, of which: 
    • 285,515 were applications for register updates compared with 318,267 in July
    • 1,073,999 were applications for an official copy of a register compared with 1,190,880 in July
    • 197,468 were search and hold queries (official searches) compared with 214,947 in July
    • 78,219 were transactions for value compared with 93,549 in July
    • 18,417 were postal applications from non-account holders compared with 19,357 in July
Applications by region and country:

Region/country

June applications

July applications

August applications

South-East

412,195

468,348

425,070

Greater London

347,494

404,408

350,059

North-West

205,260

236,256

210,417

South-West

179,700

203,566

185,961

West Midlands

157,275

178,188

158,505

Yorkshire and the Humber

152,438

166,385

149,177

East Midlands

136,263

148,285

138,813

North

91,623

103,651

95,160

East Anglia

77,425

87,080

79194

Isles of Scilly

77

194

259

Wales

83,025

96,036

83,463

England and Wales (not assigned)

116

157

137

Total

1,842,891

2,092,554

1,876,215

 

Top 5 local authority areas – August 2024 applications:

Birmingham

27,866

City of Westminster

25,959

Leeds

22,776

North Yorkshire

20,844

Buckinghamshire

19,900

 

Top 5 local authority areas – July 2024 applications:

Birmingham

31,822

City of Westminster

29,358

Leeds

24,267

Yorkshire

24,053

Somerset

22,319

 

Top 5 customers – August 2024 applications:

InfoTrack Ltd

182,701

Landmark Information Group Ltd.

44,136

Orbital Witness Ltd.

32,623

Enact

28,071

O’Neill Patient

27,852

 

Top 5 customers – July 2024 applications:

InfoTrack Ltd.

202,706

Orbital Witness Ltd.

33,462

Landmark Information Group Ltd.

32,301

Enact

31,463

O’Neill Patient

28,426

 

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

 

Next publication:

The Transaction Data is published on the 15th working day of each month.

The September 2024 data will be published at 11 a.m. on Monday, 21 October 2024.

 

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