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January 2024 Transaction Data  

This data provides information about the number and types of applications that HM Land Registry completed in January 2024.

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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 1,883,130 applications to change or query the Land Register 
  • the South East topped the table of regional applications with 424,357

HM Land Registry completed 1,883,137 applications in January compared with 1,335,792 in December and 1,777,649 last January 2023, of which: 

  • 298,750 were applications for register updates compared with 257,519 in December
  • 1,095,216 were applications for an official copy of a register compared with 689,205 in December
  • 182,512 were search and hold queries (official searches) compared with 178,940 in December
  • 84,996 were transactions for value compared with 57,567 in December
  • 19,296 were postal applications from non-account holders compared with 16,721 in December

Applications by region and country 

Region/country November applications December applications January applications
South East 426,264 300,944 424,357
Greater London 361,451 252,332 356,173
North West 217,097 152,088 206,193
South West 184,856 128,926 182,662
West Midlands 167,099 112,618 159,365
Yorkshire and the Humber 153,981 108,989 147,023
East Midlands 139,023 97,518 134,913
North 95,528 65,817 93,519
East Anglia 80,981 56,794 81,326
Isles of Scilly 45 84 58
Wales 86,200 59,619 97,459
England and Wales (not assigned) 109 63 89
Total 1,912,634 1,335,792 1,883,137

Top 5 local authority areas

January 2024 applications

Top 5 local authority areas January applications
Birmingham 29,114
City of Westminster 25,512
Leeds 21,020
North Yorkshire 20,995
Cornwall 19,63

December 2023 applications

Top 5 local authority areas December applications
Birmingham 19,684
City of Westminster 18,089
Leeds 15,594
North Yorkshire 14,720
Manchester 13,679

Top 5 local authority areas

January 2024 applications

Top 5 customers January applications
Infotrack Limited 152,053
Enact 29,412
O’Neill Patient 28,640
Devonshires 28,128
Landmark Information Group Ltd 24,951

December 2023 applications

Top 5 customers December applications
Infotrack Limited 104,683
Enact 25,300
Avail AI Ltd 23,996
O’Neill Patient 23,905
Orbital Witness Limited 16,046

Next publication 

Transaction Data is published on the 15th working day of each month. The February 2024 data will be published at 11am on Thursday 21 March 2024.

Updates to this page

Published 21 February 2024