HM Land Registry Transaction Data for May 2024 published

HM Land Registry Transaction Data for May 2024 has been published, providing information about the number and types of applications that HM Land Registry completed in May 2024.

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 May:
    • HM Land Registry completed more than 1,948,690 applications to change or query the Land Register
    • the South-East topped the table of regional applications with 439,855
HM Land Registry completed 1,948,692 applications in May compared with 1,953,642 in April and 1,828,510 last May 2023, of which: 
    • 309,498 were applications for register updates compared with 299,195 in April
    • 1,125,121 were applications for an official copy of a register compared with 1,128,292 in April
    • 190,360 were search and hold queries (official searches) compared with 186,959 in April
    • 82,109 were transactions for value compared with 83,904 in April
    • 17,795 were postal applications from non-account holders compared with 20,425 in April
Applications by region and country:

Region/country

March applications

April applications

May applications

South-East

420,415

449,162

439,855

Greater London

349,872

362,233

368,215

North-West

209,451

216,597

219,041

South-West

180,665

188,320

191,782

West Midlands

157,411

164,859

163,759

Yorkshire and the Humber

150,143

159,242

157,218

East Midlands

138,317

144,324

144,160

North

93,755

97,741

97,842

East Anglia

78,787

83087

80,891

Isles of Scilly

111

94

109

Wales

86,573

87,830

85,684

England and Wales (not assigned)

89

153

136

Total

1,865,589

1,953,642

1,948,692

 

Top 5 local authority areas – May 2024 applications:

Birmingham

28,978

City of Westminster

28,596

Leeds

24,919

North Yorkshire

21,329

Cornwall

20,852

 

Top 5 local authority areas – April 2024 applications:

Birmingham

28,414

City of Westminster

27,872

Leeds

26,906

North Yorkshire

21,223

Buckinghamshire

20,598

 

Top 5 customers – May 2024 applications:

InfoTrack Ltd.

185,188

Landmark Information Group Ltd.

38,901

Orbital Witness Ltd.

31,357

Enact

30,377

O’Neill Patient

27,997

 

Top 5 customers – April 2024 applications:

InfoTrack Ltd.

180,459

Landmark Information Group Ltd.

37,836

Enact

31,621

O’Neill Patient

30,636

Orbital Witness Ltd.

27,383

 

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 June 2024 data will be published at 11 a.m. on Friday 19 July 2024.

 

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