January 2020 Transaction Data

In January:

• HM Land Registry completed more than 1,838,830 applications to change or query the Land Register
• the South East topped the table of regional applications with 424,390

HM Land Registry completed 1,838,833 applications in January compared with 1,375,682 in December and 1,797,037 last January, of which:

• 378,672 were applications for register updates compared with 310,299 in December
• 961,842 were applications for an official copy of a register compared with 652,772 in December
• 217,323 were search and hold queries (official searches) compared with 207,679 in December
• 21,940 were postal applications from non-account holders compared with 17,402 in December

Applications by region and country

Region/country	November applications	December applications	January applications
South East	404,786	313,823	424,390
Greater London	345,170	256,620	349,183
North West	206,020	156,919	212,480
South West	168,039	133,325	172,851
West Midlands	149,859	120,093	156,965
Yorkshire and the Humber	138,165	110,777	143,650
East Midlands	124,538	100,028	132,390
North	81,318	64,881	88,245
East Anglia	72,626	56,073	75,804
Isles of Scilly	52	97	39
Wales	81,224	62,968	82,752
England and Wales (not assigned)	87	78	84
Total	1,771,884	1,375,682	1,838,833

Top 5 local authority areas

Top 5 local authority areas	November applications	Top 5 local authority areas	December applications	Top 5 local authority areas	January applications
Birmingham	26,875	Birmingham	20,979	Birmingham	27,664
City of Westminster	23,596	City of Westminster	18,088	City of Westminster	24,777
Leeds	21,303	Leeds	16,802	Leeds	21,771
Cornwall	17,648	Cornwall	14,106	Manchester	19,006
Manchester	16,777	Manchester	13,030	Cornwall	18,243

Top 5 customers

Top 5 customers	November applications	Top 5 customers	December applications	Top 5 customers	January applications
Infotrack Limited	56,765	Enact	43,278	Infotrack Limited	60,745
Enact	54,094	Infotrack Limited	42,603	Enact	57,323
O’Neill Patient	31,687	O’Neill Patient	28,990	O’Neill Patient	37,864
WSP Management Services Ltd	23,169	Optima Legal Services	20,178	Optima Legal Services	24,113
Optima Legal Services	21,467	HBOS PLC Bank	16,755	My Home Move Limited	21,498

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Transaction Data is published on the 15th working day of each month. The February data will be published at 11am on Friday 20 March 2020.