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October 2023 Transaction Data

This data provides information about the number and types of applications that HM Land Registry completed in October 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 October:

  • HM Land Registry completed over 1,810,650 applications to change or query the Land Register
  • the South East topped the table of regional applications with 407,718

HM Land Registry completed 1,810,655 applications in October compared with 1,730,767 in September and 1,888,991 last October 2022, of which: 

  • 299,511 were applications for register updates compared with 304,718 in September
  • 1,017,051 were applications for an official copy of a register compared with 944,174 in September
  • 191,928 were search and hold queries (official searches) compared with 191,632 in September
  • 70,955 were transactions for value compared with 70,505 in September
  • 20,693 were postal applications from non-account holders compared with 18,469 in September

Applications by region and country 

Region/country August applications September applications October applications
South East 404,443 389,691 407,718
Greater London 336,671 330,283 348,637
North West 202,217 196,701 201,915
South West 174,000 165,923 177,466
West Midlands 155,163 143,754 152,380
Yorkshire and the Humber 142,913 137,788 144,816
East Midlands 131,637 123,899 128,543
North 91,792 88,308 90,910
East Anglia 75,307 74,622 75,844
Isles of Scilly 97 74 69
Wales 81,157 79,630 82,251
England and Wales (not assigned) 93 94 106
Total 1,795,490 1,730,767 1,810,655

Top 5 local authority areas

October 2023 applications

Top 5 local authority areas October applications
City of Westminster 27,823
Birmingham 27,438
Leeds 22,379
North Yorkshire 19,887
Cornwall 19,424

September 2023 applications

Top 5 local authority areas September applications
Birmingham 25,681
City of Westminster 25,416
Leeds 19,797
North Yorkshire 19,316
Cornwall 17,424

Top 5 customers

October 2023 applications

Top 5 customers October applications
InfoTrack Limited 151,752
Orbital Witness Limited 31,070
Enact 29,357
O’Neill Patient 25,266
Landmark 22,291

September 2023 applications

Top 5 customers September applications
InfoTrack Limited 143,412
Orbital Witness Limited 29,027
Nationwide Building Society 26,641
Enact 26,455
O’Neill Patient 24,771

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 November 2023 data will be published at 11am on Thursday 21 December 2023.

Updates to this page

Published 21 November 2023