November 2019 Transaction Data

In November:

• HM Land Registry completed more than 1,771,880 applications to change or query the Land Register
• the South East topped the table of regional applications with 404,786

HM Land Registry completed 1,771,884 applications in November compared with 1,905,543 in October and 1,938,344 last November, of which:

• 355,399 were applications for register updates compared with 366,994 in October
• 912,853 were applications for an official copy of a register compared with 1,002,470 in October
• 226,094 were search and hold queries (official searches) compared with 235,846 in October
• 20,835 were postal applications from non-account holders compared with 19,840 in October

Applications by region and country

Region/country	September applications	October applications	November applications
South East	387,778	430,303	404,786
Greater London	318,300	347,443	345,170
North West	194,171	227,567	206,020
South West	162,681	181,312	168,039
West Midlands	153,930	168,325	149,859
Yorkshire and the Humber	135,492	152,736	138,165
East Midlands	123,391	138,606	124,538
North	80,659	91,825	81,318
East Anglia	69,850	79,314	72,626
Isles of Scilly	39	53	52
Wales	82,754	87,964	81,224
England and Wales (not assigned)	81	95	87
Total	1,709,126	1,905,543	1,771,884

Top 5 local authority areas

Top 5 local authority areas	September applications	Top 5 local authority areas	October applications	Top 5 local authority areas	November applications
Birmingham	26,240	Birmingham	29,114	Birmingham	26,875
City of Westminster	21,591	Leeds	23,865	City of Westminster	23,596
Leeds	20,085	City of Westminster	23,722	Leeds	21,303
Cornwall	17,127	Manchester	22,792	Cornwall	17,648
Manchester	16,350	Liverpool	19,602	Manchester	16,777

Top 5 customers

Top 5 customers	September applications	Top 5 customers	October applications	Top 5 customers	November applications
Infotrack Limited	54,412	Infotrack Limited	59,349	Infotrack Limited	56,765
Enact	51,421	Enact	59,062	Enact	54,094
TM Group (UK) Ltd (Search Choice)	28,869	O’Neill Patient	31,592	O’Neill Patient	31,687
O’Neill Patient	27,339	My Home Move Limited	20,505	WSP Management Services Ltd	23,169
Optima Legal Services	21,524	HBOS PLC Bank	19,669	Optima Legal Services	21,467

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Transaction Data is published on the 15th working day of each month. The December data will be published at 11am on Wednesday 22 January 2020.