October Transaction Data from HM Land Registry

  • HM Land Registry completed more than 1,740,000 applications to change or query the Land Register
  • The South East topped the table of regional applications with 407,148

HM Land Registry completed 1,740,068 applications in October compared with 1,586,987 in September and 1,532,007 last October, of which:

  • 408,685 were applications to update existing titles compared with 363,990 in September;
  • 823,267 were applications to obtain an official copy of a register compared with 747,090 in September;
  • 226,488 were official searches compared with 210,805 in September; and
  • 26,260 were postal applications from non-account holders, compared with 24,136 in September.

 

Region/country August applications September applications October applications
South East 392,737 372,168 407,148
Greater London 313,338 298,966 329,865
North West 186,030 176,591 195,045
South West 164,325 155,495 168,802
West Midlands 143,074 135,283 145,121
Yorkshire and the Humber 128,718 122,127 135,347
East Midlands 115,673 111,411 120,689
North 76,810 72,506 82,710
Wales 79,289 76,292 80,938
East Anglia 71,789 66,034 74,202
Isles of Scilly 47 47 106
England and Wales (not assigned) 87 67 95
Total 1,671,917 1,586,987 1,740,068

 

Top five

local authority areas

 August

applications

September

applications

October

applications

Birmingham 25,179 Birmingham 23,631 Birmingham 26,232
City of Westminster 21,516 City of Westminster 20,892 City of Westminster 24,087
Leeds 19,102 Leeds 18,076 Leeds 19,895
Manchester 17,499 Cornwall 16,809 Manchester 17,810
Cornwall 17,193 Manchester 16,290 Cornwall 17,794
Top five

customers

 August

applications

September

applications

October

applications

Enact 37,513 Enact 39,349 Enact 48,058
O’Neill Patient 26,888 O’Neill Patient 24,273 O’Neill Patient 24,610
Optima Legal Services 21,031 Optima Legal Service 20,688 Optima Legal Service 23,721
Eversheds LLP 20,189 Eversheds LLP 18,307 HBOS Bank PLC 20,980
HBOS Bank PLC 18,235 Barclays Bank PLC 16,491 Eversheds LLP 19,123

 

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