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HM Land Registry Strategy 2022+

Enabling a world-leading property market.

Applies to England and Wales

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HM Land Registry Strategy 2022+

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In this document there are 5 pillars:

Providing secure and efficient land registration

We will:

  • improve our speed of service as a priority
  • introduce automation and digital services that integrate with conveyancing, to create a truly outstanding customer service
  • maintain trust and confidence by investing in expertise and professionalism
  • work with the property sector to increase resilience to fraud and cyber threat
  • explore the benefits of mapping unregistered land to increase transparency

Enabling property to be bought and sold digitally

We will:

  • work with the property sector to drive the transformation to an entirely digital process for buying and selling property
  • develop our services to be fully digital and easily connected to other digital components of the property market in England and Wales
  • use our practice requirements to promote a secure and inclusive digital system of conveyancing, with common data and connectivity standards

Providing near real-time property information

We will:

  • support conveyancers with a plan to automate our information services, working towards a fully digital land register integrated within a fully digital conveyancing system
  • prioritise the digitisation of the most useful register information
  • explore providing greater transparency and online access to property information
  • complete the new instant access local land charges register within 4 years

Providing accessible digital register data

We will:

  • make our data more findable, accessible, interoperable with other data and reusable to increase its wider value
  • through our Geovation Accelerator Programme, sponsor start-up businesses looking to use our data to innovate new products and services
  • continue to help deliver the objectives of the National Geospatial Strategy

Leading research and accelerating change with property market partners

We will:

  • work in partnership with others in the sector to build a shared vision for the property market, research collaboratively and co-design changes to the system
  • build on the success of our Digital Street research community, to continue to explore the potential benefit of emerging technologies

You can read our Business Plan 2022 to 2025 which details how we will deliver our strategy for the next 3 years.

You can also read our news story.

Watch a video about our Business Strategy

A vision of a world-leading property market - HM Land Registry Strategy 2022+ - YouTube

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Video transcript

Our property market is one of the most secure and valuable in the world. Keeping property rights safe underpins our economy and society. We have done this for 160 years guarding a national data asset so people can live their lives on land with trust and confidence in their property.

But dealing with land can be challenging. The experience can be frustrating and innovation feels difficult. Our strategy seeks to change that. Co-designed with the data and property industries it sets out an ambitious framework of joint action that puts customer needs at the heart of a better service and brings together everyone who wants to make our property market better.

It’s a partnership. We want it to be easier to move home, open new businesses or solve problems with location data. Together, we can enable a world leading property market as part of a thriving economy and sustainable future.

We are HM Land Registry.

Published 31 August 2022