May 2020 Price Paid Data published by HM Land Registry

The May 2020 Price Paid Data tracks details of land and property in England and Wales that HM Land Registry received for registration in May 2020.

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 934,380 applications to change or query the Land Register
the South East topped the table of regional applications with 207,028

HM Land Registry completed 934,380 applications in May compared with 865,970 in April and 1,732,280 last May 2019, of which:

170,249 were applications for register updates compared with 56,950 in April
511,354 were applications for an official copy of a register compared with 531,638 in April
122,626 were search and hold queries (official searches) compared with 141,626 in April
9,504 were postal applications from non-account holders compared with 2,330 in April

Applications by region and country

Region/country	March applications	April applications	May applications
South East	367,175	207,028	218,337
Greater London	295,595	169,837	186,442
North West	184,461	99,425	103,848
South West	151,389	79,731	86,804
West Midlands	134,232	70,638	77,657
Yorkshire and the Humber	123,430	64,669	72,103
East Midlands	116,088	62,833	66,259
North	77,673	36,845	43,951
East Anglia	65,199	37,578	38,189
Isles of Scilly	42	20	23
Wales	68,907	37,328	40,735
England and Wales (not assigned)	82	38	32
Total	1,584,273	865,970	934,380

Top 5 local authority areas

Top 5 local authority areas	March applications	Top 5 local authority areas	April applications	Top 5 local authority areas	May applications
Birmingham	24,469	City of Westminster	13,467	City of Westminster	14,252
City of Westminster	22,027	Birmingham	12,657	Birmingham	14,002
Manchester	18,693	Leeds	10,168	Leeds	10,811
Leeds	18,229	Manchester	9,268	Cornwall	9,223
Cornwall	15,787	Cornwall	7,872	Wandsworth	8,716

Top 5 customers

Top 5 customers	March applications	Top 5 customers	April applications	Top 5 customers	May applications
Infotrack Limited	65,764	Infotrack Limited	35,427	Enact	39,424
Enact	50,955	Enact	30,347	Infotrack Limited	30,487
O’Neill Patient	35,297	O’Neill Patient	21,274	O’Neill Patient	20,092
Optima Legal Services	26,135	Optima Legal Services	13,954	Optima Legal Services	13,632
TM Group (UK) LTD Search Choice)	20,444	Legal & General Surveying Serv LTD	11,704	Land Technologies Ltd	10,339