May Transaction Data from HM Land Registry

HM Land Registry have provided the transaction data for May 2018, covering the precise figures for applications to change details in the register.

  • HM Land Registry completed more than 1,723,570 applications to change or query the Land Register
  • The South East topped the table of regional applications with 398,029
HM Land Registry completed 1,723,098 applications in May compared with 1,625,098 in April and 1,620,802 last May, of which:​
  • 373,423 were applications for register updates compared with 346,788 in April;
  • 848,600 were applications for an official copy of a register compared with 804,157 in April;
  • 209,803 were search and hold queries (official searches) compared with 196,560 in April; and
  • 26,695 were postal applications from non-account holders compared with 28,161 in April.

Applications by region and country

Region/country March applications April applications May applications
South East 384,760 373,677 398,029
Greater London 337,656 314,534 332,546
North West 193,405 184,504 194,722
South West 159,147 159,528 169,351
West Midlands 142,764 140,096 147,196
Yorkshire and the Humber 128,654 121,756 131,727
East Midlands 119,374 115,347 121,511
Wales 76,650 75,111 78,038
North 75,246 73,765 78,596
East Anglia 70,448 66,644 71,749
Isles of Scilly 79 69 41
England and Wales (not assigned) 61 67 72
Total 1,688,244 1,625,098 1,723,578

 

Top five local authority areas March applications April applications May applications
Birmingham 26,895 Birmingham 25,990 Birmingham 26,902
City of Westminster 24,562 City of Westminster 22,505 City of Westminster 24,121
Leeds 19,505 Leeds 18,630 Leeds 19,782
Manchester 17,708 Manchester 16,698 Cornwall 18,301
Cornwall 17,174 Cornwall 16,343 Manchester 17,347

 

Top five

customers

March applications April applications May applications
Enact 50,160 Enact 48,943 Enact 53,314
Optima Legal Services 28,113 Optima Legal Services 26,741 Infotrack Limited 28,453
O’Neill Patient 26,056 O’Neill Patient 25,473 Optima Legal Services 28,173
Infotrack Limited 22,948 Infotrack Limited 24,411 O’Neill Patient 26,645
TM Group (UK) Ltd 19,320 TM Group (UK) Ltd 18,058 TM Group (UK) Ltd 22,706

 

Access the full dataset on data.gov.uk

 

Kindly shared by HM Land Registry