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January 2022 Transaction Data

This data provides information about the number and types of applications that HM Land Registry completed in January 2022.

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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 January:

  • HM Land Registry completed more than 1,771,690 applications to change or query the Land Register

  • the South East topped the table of regional applications with 417,879

HM Land Registry completed 1,771,694 applications in January compared with 1,480,815 in December and 1,635,591 last January 2021, of which:

  • 356,294 were applications for register updates compared with 338,689 in December

  • 938,752 were applications for an official copy of a register compared with 691,482 in December

  • 222,734 were search and hold queries (official searches) compared with 228,687 in December

  • 15,335 were postal applications from non-account holders compared with 13,528 in December

Applications by region and country

Region/country November applications December applications January applications
South East 424,106 342,488 417,879
Greater London 339,450 273,030 322,350
North West 210,391 167,717 199,888
South West 179,377 146,922 172,166
West Midlands 153,843 123,723 149,113
Yorkshire and the Humber 145,836 116,586 137,147
East Midlands 133,801 108,948 128,132
North 89,629 71,029 86,516
East Anglia 79,696 63,055 78,782
Isles of Scilly 42 43 50
Wales 84,468 67,212 79,621
England and Wales (not assigned) 81 62 50
Total 1,840,720 1,480,815 1,771,694

Top 5 local authority areas

January 2022 applications

Top 5 local authority areas January applications
Birmingham 26,270
City of Westminster 22,501
Leeds 19,759
Cornwall 18,649
Buckinghamshire 18,257

December 2021 applications

Top 5 local authority areas December applications
Birmingham 21,365
City of Westminster 17,224
Leeds 16,722
Cornwall 15,811
Buckinghamshire 15,453

Top 5 customers

January 2022 applications

Top 5 customers January applications
Infotrack Limited 109,721
Enact 43,516
O’Neill Patient 27,651
Land Technologies Ltd 24,237
Optima Legal Services 21,512

December 2021 applications

Top 5 customers December applications
Infotrack Limited 91,087
Enact 38,235
O’Neill Patient 27,347
Optima Legal Services 23,872
Devonshires 23,251

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

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Transaction Data is published on the 15th working day of each month. The February data will be published at 11am on Tuesday 22 March 2022.

Updates to this page

Published 21 February 2022