March 2022 Transaction Data

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 March

• HM Land Registry completed more than 2,125,500 applications to change or query the Land Register

• the South East topped the table of regional applications with 490,963

HM Land Registry completed 2,125,508 applications in March compared with 1,870,826 in February and 2,081,283 last March 2021, of which:

• 390,596 were applications for register updates compared with 352,901 in February

• 1,141,724 were applications for an official copy of a register compared with 1,022,285 in February

• 265,590 were search and hold queries (official searches) compared with 213,926 in February

• 19,507 were postal applications from non-account holders compared with 17,463 in February

Applications by region and country

Region/country	January applications	February applications	March applications
South East	417,879	440,118	490,963
Greater London	322,350	339,757	386,977
North West	199,888	216,620	244,964
South West	172,166	178,861	209,168
West Midlands	149,113	156,319	177,003
Yorkshire and the Humber	137,147	149,242	166,917
East Midlands	128,132	136,288	156,855
North	86,516	90,326	107,426
East Anglia	78,782	79,717	89,455
Isles of Scilly	50	42	100
Wales	79,621	83,412	95,565
England and Wales (not assigned)	50	124	115
Total	1,771,694	1,870,826	2,125,508

Top 5 local authority areas

March 2022 applications

Top 5 local authority areas	March applications
Birmingham	29,962
City of Westminster	25,617
Leeds	24,294
Cornwall	22,554
Buckinghamshire	22,058

February 2022 applications

Top 5 local authority areas	February applications
Birmingham	26,640
City of Westminster	24,482
Leeds	21,533
Cornwall	18,862
Buckinghamshire	18,808

Top 5 customers

March 2022 applications

Top 5 customers	March applications
Infotrack Limited	151,371
Enact	65,731
O’Neill Patient	31,569
Optima Legal Services	31,077
TM Group (UK) Ltd (Search Choice)	28,064

February 2022 applications

Top 5 customers	February applications
Infotrack Limited	121,736
Enact	48,172
O’Neill Patient	28,227
TM Group (UK) Ltd (Search Choice)	22,048
Land Technologies Ltd	21,750

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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 Monday 23 May 2022.