News story: March 2019 Transaction Data

In March:

• HM Land Registry completed more than 1,744,140 applications to change or query the Land Register

• the South East topped the table of regional applications with 394,377

HM Land Registry completed 1,744,141 applications in March compared with 2,008,752 in February and 1,688,244 last March, of which:

• 339,014 were applications for register updates compared with 323,392 in February

• 914,549 were applications for an official copy of a register compared with 1,163,091 in February

• 207,099 were search and hold queries (official searches) compared with 183,033 in February

• 20,364 were postal applications from non-account holders compared with 22,644 in February

Applications by region and country

Region/country	January applications	February applications	March applications
South East	412,262	451,646	394,377
Greater London	338,286	388,647	323,612
North West	203,371	231,694	207,148
South West	169,585	186,573	167,025
West Midlands	156,126	175,911	147,646
Yorkshire and the Humber	144,169	163,180	139,817
East Midlands	131,926	143,610	123,991
North	83,163	95,309	87,349
East Anglia	73,402	81,378	71,766
Isles of Scilly	48	39	52
Wales	84,618	90,670	81,275
England and Wales (not assigned)	81	95	83
Total	1,797,037	2,008,752	1,744,141

Top 5 local authority areas

Top 5 Local authority areas	January applications	Top 5 Local authority areas	February applications	Top 5 Local authority areas	March applications
Birmingham	30,192	Birmingham	33,487	Birmingham	27,727
City of Westminster	23,156	City of Westminster	30,300	City of Westminster	24,089
Leeds	21,625	Leeds	25,250	Leeds	22,015
Cornwall	17,981	Manchester	20,697	Manchester	17,248
Manchester	17,818	Cornwall	19,904	Cornwall	17,232

Top 5 customers

Top 5 customers	January applications	Top 5 customers	February applications	Top 5 customers	March applications
Enact	14,622	Enact	53,870	Enact	47,766
Optima Legal services	8,994	Infotrack Limited	48,464	Infotrack limited	43,725
O’Neill Patient	8,153	Optima Legal Services	29,665	Optima legal services	24,430
Infotrack Limited	7,454	O’Neill Patient	27,307	O’Neill Patient	24,345
My Home Move Limited	4,878	My Home Move Limited	21,110	My Home Move Limited	19,723

Access the full dataset on data.gov.uk

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Transaction Data is published on the 15th working day of each month. The April data will be published at 11am on Wednesday 22 May 2019.