Press release: April 2017 Transaction Data

In April:

HM Land Registry completed more than 1,386,140 applications the South East topped the table of regional applications with 327,769 Birmingham topped the table of applications by local authority area with 20,709

The Transaction Data shows HM Land Registry completed 1,386,147 applications from its customers in April. This included 1,363,340 applications by account holders, of which:

315,717 were applications in respect of registered land (dealings) 662,087 were applications to obtain an official copy of a register or title plan 172,183 were searches 69,962 were transactions for value Applications by region Region Applications South East 327,769 Greater London 263,934 North West 152,718 South West 135,453 West Midlands 115,782 Yorks & Humber 107,656 East Midlands 97,889 North 64,901 Wales 63,917 East Anglia 56,040 England and Wales (not assigned) 62 Isles of Scilly 26 Total 1,386,147 Top three local authority areas for applications Local authority area Applications Birmingham 20,709 City of Westminster 19,877 Leeds 15,900 Top three customers for transactions for value Customer Transactions for value My Home Move Limited 1,617 O’Neill Patient 838 Birchall Blackburn 699 Top three customers for searches Customer Searches Enact 7,354 O’Neill Patient 6,297 Breeze and Wyles 5,677

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Notes to editors

Transaction Data is published on the 15th working day of each month. The May Transaction Data will be published at 11am on Wednesday 21 June 2017 at HM Land Registry Monthly Property Transaction Data.

The monthly Transaction Data shows how many applications for first registrations, leases, transfers of part, dealings, official copies and searches lodged by HM Land Registry account customers were completed. For an explanation of the terms used, see abbreviations used in the transaction data.

Transactions for value include freehold and leasehold sales.

Most searches carried out by a solicitor or conveyancer are to protect the purchase and/or mortgage. For example, a search will give the buyer priority for an application to HM Land Registry to register the purchase of the property.

As a government department established in 1862, executive agency and trading fund responsible to the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, HM Land Registry keeps and maintains the Land Register for England and Wales. The Land Register has been open to public inspection since 1990.

With the largest transactional database of its kind detailing more than 24 million titles, HM Land Registry underpins the economy by safeguarding ownership of many billions of pounds worth of property.

For further information about HM Land Registry visit www.gov.uk/land-registry.

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Marion Shelley Head Office Trafalgar House 1 Bedford Park Croydon CR0 2AQ

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