HM Land Registry portal: login and guides
Guides and log in for Business e-services customers to use the HM Land Registry portal.
Log in to the HM Land Registry portal
Available 6.30am to 11pm every day.
Please note that from 1 April 2026, DRS should be used to submit almost all transactions. The final transaction types will be added by this summer. Find out details of the remaining transactions and how to submit them using the Portal.
Property professionals can use the portal to:
- apply to change the register
- submit applications and registrations
- access information from the Land Register
- apply for searches
- get alerts when your application results are available to download
- reply to notifications online even if you sent us your application through the post
The portal is part of our Business e-services.
Getting started
Find out where to submit an application in the portal
All of the other services in the portal can be found using the ‘Services’ menu in the top right-hand corner of the page.
Please note, the Digital Registration Service will be the default application submission service within the portal.
Support
If you require any support, please use our standard support channels.
View Applications
HM Land Registry portal users can use the View Applications service to manage portal applications and correspondence in one place.
Digital Registration Service
Information Services
Use our Information Services to get HM Land Registry information and documents faster and more cheaply than by post.
Land Charges Services
electronic Document Registration Service
From 1 April 2026 the Digital Registration Service (DRS) should be used to submit all transactions you would normally submit via the HM Land Registry Portal.
You should use the electronic Document Registration Service (e-DRS) for the following transactions until they are added to DRS ahead of May 31 2026:
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Correction or alteration of register (mistakes, updates of superfluous entries)
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New Lease – taking effect more than 3 months from the date of the grant
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New lease – including profit a prendre in gross (PAPIG)
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Registering the Official Receiver in bankruptcy as a proprietor
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Registering the trustee in bankruptcy as a proprietor
From 1 June 2026 DRS will be the only service for submitting applications via the portal.
Reply to requisition
Network Services
Use our Network Services to submit applications, registrations and supporting evidence via our portal or Business Gateway.
Lender services
Use our Lender Services to discharge a mortgage.
General facilities
These guides show you how to use the General Facilities functions, which may vary according to the role you’ve been assigned in the portal.
Personal details
Administrative services
Find out about how to manage your organisation’s accounts. Functions vary according to your role. Find out about the different roles in the Business e-services technical manual.
Administrative services: managing business unit administrator accounts
These guides show business unit administrators how to activate and manage their own account.
Administrative services: managing authorised users
These guides show business unit administrators how the create and manage authorised user accounts.
Administrative services: managing groups of authorised users
These guides show business unit administrators how to manage groups of authorised user accounts.
Administrative services: managing organisation accounts
These guides cover changes to organisation accounts.
Administrative services: Variable Direct Debit
This guide shows Responsible persons, Deputy responsible persons and Financial administrators how to view variable direct debit information.
Updates to this page
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Information about how the eDRS service is being phased out, summer 2026.
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We have removed information about the November 2022 portal redesign.
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We have added information for getting started on the portal.
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Added information regarding the portal redesign.
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Added 'View My Applications' to the Information Services group and 'Digital Registration Service' to the electronic Document Registration Service group.
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Added 'HM Land Registry portal: alternative despatch address' to the Administrative services: managing organisation accounts group.
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The HM Land Registry portal will be unavailable due to extended maintenance and tests all day on Saturday 16 June and Sunday 17 June 2018.
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Administrative services guides - A new guide, "first time login for business unit administrators" has been added to help administrators through the process activating their account. The guides in this section have been reorganised into groups to help customers identify and use the guides more easily.
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Our online services are available as normal throughout Christmas and New Year, except for Business e-services and Business Gateway, which are not available on Christmas Day (Monday 25 December).
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Link to new guide "Land Registry portal: how to set a collective email address" added.
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Link to new guide "Land Registry portal: reply to requisition" added.
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Guide added about how to use the Application Enquiry service in the portal to check your current applications to Land Registry.
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First published.