HM Land Registry

(asked on 1st April 2025) - View Source
Questioner
Amanda Hack Portrait
Amanda Hack
(Labour - North West Leicestershire)

Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many applications the Land Registry has received in each month since January 2020.

Answered by
Matthew Pennycook Portrait
Matthew Pennycook
Minister of State (Housing, Communities and Local Government)
This question was answered on 16th April 2025

The table below outlines the number of applications HM Land Registry has received in each month since January 2020. These include register change applications that are a legal requirement and occur at the very end of a property transaction, after stamp duty land tax has been paid and the property has exchanged hands. The table also shows the number of guaranteed information service requests received each month. These take place before a property has exchanged hands and provide essential information and a state guarantee, offering protection to purchasers, lenders and their professional representatives, which enables the property market to function. HM Land Registry also provides a range of other services that inform the property market, and information about these has been included after the below table for wider context.

Month

Register Change Applications

Guaranteed Information Services

Total Applications

Jan-20

436,337

1,804,110

2,240,447

Feb-20

386,686

1,799,018

2,185,704

Mar-20

389,988

1,653,237

2,043,225

Apr-20

261,394

1,015,932

1,277,326

May-20

228,219

952,503

1,180,722

Jun-20

279,592

1,423,147

1,702,739

Jul-20

323,988

1,717,840

2,041,828

Aug-20

301,860

1,602,690

1,904,550

Sep-20

341,705

1,823,376

2,165,081

Oct-20

362,856

1,904,683

2,267,539

Nov-20

370,808

1,819,909

2,190,717

Dec-20

365,070

1,449,706

1,814,776

Jan-21

361,545

1,661,031

2,022,576

Feb-21

362,059

1,788,858

2,150,917

Mar-21

467,108

2,166,308

2,633,416

Apr-21

439,224

1,861,868

2,301,092

May-21

382,425

1,834,860

2,217,285

Jun-21

440,834

1,996,214

2,437,048

Jul-21

484,818

1,858,413

2,343,231

Aug-21

374,057

1,712,797

2,086,854

Sep-21

404,093

1,852,670

2,256,763

Oct-21

437,012

1,804,020

2,241,032

Nov-21

417,739

1,870,152

2,287,891

Dec-21

372,206

1,395,653

1,767,859

Jan-22

409,019

1,744,341

2,153,360

Feb-22

380,200

1,884,214

2,264,414

Mar-22

444,167

2,151,845

2,596,012

Apr-22

395,023

1,759,246

2,154,269

May-22

419,310

2,006,089

2,425,399

Jun-22

383,854

1,858,451

2,242,305

Jul-22

415,168

1,894,014

2,309,182

Aug-22

429,068

1,924,755

2,353,823

Sep-22

408,130

1,859,354

2,267,484

Oct-22

438,946

1,868,048

2,306,994

Nov-22

474,676

1,854,016

2,328,692

Dec-22

374,313

1,274,957

1,649,270

Jan-23

444,233

1,703,117

2,138,986

Feb-23

357,361

1,744,735

2,102,096

Mar-23

401,500

2,030,841

2,432,341

Apr-23

335,302

1,582,398

1,917,700

May-23

342,645

1,753,841

2,096,486

Jun-23

361,512

1,941,266

2,305,260

Jul-23

378,101

1,834,478

2,212,579

Aug-23

363,462

1,738,095

2,101,557

Sep-23

396,208

1,711,422

2,107,630

Oct-23

366,738

1,820,926

2,187,664

Nov-23

357,942

1,823,147

2,181,089

Dec-23

309,837

1,264,730

1,574,567

Jan-24

377,885

1,890,124

2,268,009

Feb-24

335,022

1,937,578

2,272,600

Mar-24

330,570

1,873,286

2,203,856

Apr-24

369,993

1,984,827

2,351,240

May-24

360,290

1,995,911

2,353,695

Jun-24

332,450

1,869,658

2,199,983

Jul-24

408,417

2,133,452

2,539,834

Aug-24

359,107

1,897,229

2,256,336

Sep-24

348,765

1,980,059

2,328,824

Oct-24

403,327

2,208,782

2,612,109

Nov-24

402,617

1,947,230

2,349,847

Dec-24

348,793

1,454,660

1,803,453

Jan-25

375,483

1,900,741

2,276,224

Feb-25

350,863

1,828,657

2,179,520

Mar-25

379,233

1,993,928

2,373,161

In addition, there has been increasing demand for other service types. The table below shows the additional service requests HM Land Registry receives annually as per HM Land Registry’s Annual Report and Accounts.

Other Service requests

FY 2019/20

FY2023/21

FY2021/22

FY2022/23

FY2023/24

Bulk Register updates

971,542

281,575

1,380,627

144,339

169,527

Enquiry Services

6,592,031

6,575,532

7,044,747

6,701,806

6,677,023

Correspondence

305,755

214,430

194,194

163,059

161,264

Telephone enquiries

989,047

571,448

851,812

714,140

209,037

MapSearch downloads

1,181,483

1,052,565

1,104,151

1,085,470

1,130,523

Search for land and property information

1,909,259

11,007,469

17,576,354

Title view

5,242,141

Total other service requests

10,039,858

8,695,550

12,484,790

19,816,944

31,165,869

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