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April 2023 Transaction Data

Land Registry

May 23
10:09 2023

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 April:

  • HM Land Registry completed 1,595,150 applications to change or query the Land Register
  • the South East topped the table of regional applications with 361,928

HM Land Registry completed 1,595,150 applications in April compared with 2,026,527 in March and 1,752,363 last April 2022, of which:

  • 290,723 were applications for register updates compared with 360,991 in March
  • 873,601 were applications for an official copy of a register compared with 1,122,973 in March
  • 162,894 were search and hold queries (official searches) compared with 218,147 in March
  • 87,241 were transactions for value compared with 114,459 in March
  • 17,267 were postal applications from non-account holders compared with 20,298 in March

Applications by region and country

Region/country February applications March applications April applications
South East 400,069 459,168 361,928
Greater London 329,084 377,552 295,648
North West 205,969 229,986 182,653
South West 169,368 196,094 155,150
West Midlands 147,391 170,599 131,831
Yorkshire and the Humber 141,519 161,442 128,048
East Midlands 126,839 146,615 116,638
North 88,003 102,426 79,557
East Anglia 74,583 89,940 70,278
Isles of Scilly 100 126 66
Wales 88,860 92,483 73,278
England and Wales (not assigned) 85 96 66
Total 1,771,870 2,026,527 1,595,150

Top 5 local authority areas

April 2023 applications

Top 5 Local authority areas April applications
City of Westminster 22,329
Birmingham 22,131
Leeds 18,883
North Yorkshire 17,380
Cornwall 16,329

March 2023 applications

Top 5 Local authority areas March applications
Birmingham 29,257
City of Westminster 27,599
Leeds 23,612
Cornwall 20,937
Buckinghamshire 20,331

Top 5 customers

April 2023 applications

Top 5 customers April Applications
Infotrack Limited 126,004
Enact 29,320
ONeill Patient 25,757
Landmark Information Group Ltd 19,038
Devonshires 17,140

March 2023 applications

Top 5 customers March Applications
InfoTrack Limited 163,054
Enact 34,345
ONeill Patient 32,407
Landmark Information Group Ltd 22,774
Land Technologies Ltd 21,370

Access the full dataset on our Use land and property data service.

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