News story: January 2019 Transaction Data

In January:

• HM Land Registry completed more than 1,797,030 applications to change or query the Land Register
• the South East topped the table of regional applications with 412,262

HM Land Registry completed 1,797,037 applications in January compared with 1,274,031 in December and 1,782,088 last January, of which:

• 398,058 were applications for register updates compared with 306,302 in December
• 909,149 were applications for an official copy of a register compared with 578,979 in December
• 212,934 were search and hold queries (official searches) compared with 199,533 in December
• 23,040 were postal applications from non-account holders compared with 18,104 in December

Applications by region and country

Region/country	November applications	December applications	January applications
South East	442,882	289,089	412,262
Greater London	441,362	230,749	338,286
North West	204,499	145,147	203,371
South West	174,105	125,765	169,585
West Midlands	157,744	109,261	156,126
Yorkshire and the Humber	140,167	104,949	144,169
East Midlands	131,654	95,112	131,926
North	85,231	60,968	83,163
East Anglia	74,312	53,130	73,402
Isles of Scilly	62	69	48
Wales	86,231	59,740	84,618
England and Wales (not assigned)	95	52	81
Total	1,938,344	1,274,031	1,797,037

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
Hounslow	71,338	Birmingham	20,015	Birmingham	30,192
Richmond upon Thames	41,992	City of Westminster	15,677	City of Westminster	23,156
Birmingham	28,388	Leeds	15,669	Leeds	21,625
Windsor and Maidenhead	27,253	Cornwall	13,531	Cornwall	17,981
City of Westminster	24,887	Manchester	13,468	Manchester	17,818

Top 5 customers

Top 5 customers	November applications	Top 5 customers	December applications	Top 5 customers	January applications
WSP Management Services Ltd	114,339	Enact	39,404	Enact	14,622
Enact	52,463	Infotrack Limited	25,145	Optima Legal Services	8,994
Infotrack Limited	36,291	Optima Legal Services	21,820	O’Neill Patient	8,153
SupportaTerraquest	27,451	O’Neill Patient	21,302	Infotrack Limited	7,454
Optima Legal Services	27,179	Eversheds Sutherland	14,877	My Home Move Limited	4,878

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 February data will be published at 11am on Thursday 21 March 2019.