March 2018 Transaction Data from HM Land Registry

HM Land Registry completed more than 1,688,240 applications to change or query the Land Register, and the South East topped the table of regional applications with 384,760 in March 2018.

HM Land Registry completed 1,688,244 applications in March compared with 1,632,969 in February and 1,796,056 last March, of which:
  • 359,219 were applications for register updates compared with 376,546 in February;
  • 824,859 were applications to get an official copy of a register compared with 796,961 in February;
  • 211,464 were search and hold queries (official searches) compared with 186,329 in February; and
  • 26,228 were postal applications from non-account holders, compared with 23,910 in February.

 

Region/country January applications February applications March applications
South East 403,526 376,385 384,760
Greater London 339,286 313,340 337,656
North West 222,150 185,253 193,405
South West 173,058 158,433 159,147
West Midlands 150,292 143,338 142,764
Yorkshire and the Humber 139,207 122,513 128,654
East Midlands 122,812 115,725 119,374
Wales 80,315 74,301 76,650
North 77,912 71,772 75,246
East Anglia 73,345 71,764 70,448
Isles of Scilly 110 75 79
England and Wales (not assigned) 75 70 61
Total 1,782,088 1,632,969 1,688,244

 

Top five

local authority areas

 January

applications

February

applications

 March

applications
Birmingham 27,561 Birmingham 26,256 Birmingham 26,895
City of Westminster 25,488 City of Westminster 21,991 City of Westminster 24,562
Leeds 20,256 Leeds 18,730 Leeds 19,505
Manchester 19,350 Manchester 16,972 Manchester 17,708
Cornwall 18,367 Cornwall 16,606 Cornwall 17,174

 

Top five

customers

 January

applications

February

applications

 March

applications
Enact 50,327 Enact 50,488 Enact 50,160
Nationwide Building Society 31,589 Optima Legal Services 27,904 Optima Legal Services 28,113
Optima Legal Services 27,284 O’Neill Patient 23,851 O’Neill Patient 26,056
O’Neill Patient 26,073 Devonshires 20,684 Infotrack Limited 22,948
My Home Move Limited 19,103 TM Group (UK) Ltd 19,558 TM Group (UK) Ltd 19,320

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