Public guidance: dealing with land and property
Guidance, support and contact details for members of the public.
Applies to England and Wales
Common questions
Get answers to these common questions quickly and easily online.
Find out:
How to:
- request expedition of a registration application
- protect your land and property from fraud
- deal with land and property when someone has died
- update a contact address
- change your name on a property record
- deal with common boundary matters
Online support forum
Use our online support forum to ask questions or find answers to general queries. You can search for a thread that covers the information you’re looking for or start your own.
Contact form
Use the contact form if you cannot find answers online, to send us a message or to report an error. Select from a series of drop-down options to help us to route your enquiry to the right person.
Our team handles all messages with sensitivity, but please note we cannot accept any marked private and confidential or in confidence.
We reply on the same day where possible for urgent enquires submitted through the contact form.
Phone
To maintain customer service and quality standards, calls may be recorded.
Our current opening hours are Monday to Thursday (excluding Bank Holidays), 8am to 5pm. Our phone service is usually quietest between 8am and 9am. On Fridays our service is temporarily unavailable as part of our aim to process more casework. You can still contact us via our online contact form or support forum, which we carefully monitor for any urgent enquiries.
Find out about call charges.
Customer Support Centre
If you need to speak to a trained caseworker, our customer support colleagues* can help. Call:
Customer Support Centre
English language 0300 006 0411
Welsh language 0300 006 0422
You will hear a list of options when you phone us. Pick the appropriate option to speak to someone to help you with your query.
*Customer support colleagues refer queries to our case owners only where necessary.
Bankruptcy
For information about bankruptcy enquiry letters and what to do if you receive one call:
- 0300 006 6107
Data Services
See the commercial services offered by HM Land Registry or call:
- 0300 006 0478
Land charges
For information about land charges call:
- 0300 006 6616
Local Land Charges
Responsibility for Local Land Charges registers is being transferred to HM Land Registry. See Local Land Charges Programme.
For information about Local Land Charges call:
- 0300 006 0444
Protect your property from fraud
To help protect your property from fraud, use our Property Alert service or call:
- 0300 006 0478
Report fraud
Tell HM Land Registry about property registration fraud.
Post
Send your applications and correspondence by post to our standard address.
Please address these to HM Land Registry Citizen Centre.