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February 2023 Transaction Data

This data provides information about the number and types of applications that HM Land Registry completed in February 2023.

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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 February:

  • HM Land Registry completed 1,771,870 applications to change or query the Land Register
  • the South East topped the table of regional applications with 400,069

HM Land Registry completed 1,771,870 applications in February compared with 1,777,649 in January and 1,870,826 last February 2022, of which:

  • 340,617 were applications for register updates compared with 362,305 in January
  • 973,175 were applications for an official copy of a register compared with 942,328 in January
  • 187,783 were search and hold queries (official searches) compared with 214,107 in January
  • 17,653 were postal applications from non-account holders compared with 17,251 in January

Applications by region and country

Region/country December applications January applications February applications
South East 323,045 410,280 400,069
Greater London 252,456 330,088 329,084
North West 170,630 203,067 205,969
South West 136,977 170,767 169,368
West Midlands 119,637 147,512 147,391
Yorkshire and the Humber 114,473 143,880 141,519
East Midlands 103,794 129,084 126,839
North 72,789 90,565 88,003
East Anglia 59,543 73,366 74,583
Isles of Scilly 130 66 100
Wales 62,119 78,887 88,860
England and Wales (not assigned) 84 87 85
Total 1,415,677 1,777,649 1,771,870

Top 5 local authority areas

February 2023 applications

Top 5 Local authority areas February applications
Birmingham 26,002
City of Westminster 24,045
Leeds 19,847
Buckinghamshire 19,199
Manchester 18,798

January 2023 applications

Top 5 local authority areas January applications
Birmingham 25,933
City of Westminster 24,135
Leeds 20,644
Cornwall 18,054
Buckinghamshire 17,796

Top 5 customers

February 2023 applications

Top 5 customers February Applications
InfoTrack Limited 131,016
Enact 29,808
O’Neill Patient 28,826
Nimbus Property Systems Limited 25,274
TM Group (UK) LTD (Search Choice) 19,393

January 2023 applications

Top 5 customers January applications
InfoTrack Limited 125,305
Enact 33,793
O’Neill Patient 26,757
HBOS PLC Bank 19,381
Land Technologies Ltd 18,297

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

Next publication

Transaction Data is published on the 15th working day of each month. The March 2023 data will be published at 11am on Tuesday 25 April 2023.

Updates to this page

Published 21 March 2023