{"id":69807,"date":"2016-04-21T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=b4e53aa99bb751426a6a3bef6246228d"},"modified":"2016-04-21T10:00:01","modified_gmt":"2016-04-21T10:00:01","slug":"press-release-march-2016-transaction-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=69807","title":{"rendered":"Press release: March 2016 Transaction Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>In March:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Land Registry completed 1,608,638 applications<\/li>\n<li>The South East topped the table of regional applications with 367,540<\/li>\n<li>Birmingham topped the table of local authority applications with 24,731<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Transaction Data shows Land Registry completed more than 1,608,600 applications from its customers in March.This included 1,578,360 applications by account customers, of which:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>359,911 were applications in respect of registered land (dealings)<\/li>\n<li>720,349 were applications to obtain an official copy of a register or title plan <\/li>\n<li>266,169 were searches <\/li>\n<li>90,476 were transactions for value<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Region<\/th>\n<th>Applications<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>South East<\/td>\n<td>367,540<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Greater London<\/td>\n<td>321,563<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>North West<\/td>\n<td>178,525<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>South West<\/td>\n<td>156,155<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>West Midlands<\/td>\n<td>134,231<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Yorks and Humber<\/td>\n<td>123,396<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>East Midlands<\/td>\n<td>118,096<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>North<\/td>\n<td>72,674<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Wales<\/td>\n<td>72,549<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>East Anglia<\/td>\n<td>63,772<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>England and Wales (not assigned)<\/td>\n<td>73<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Isles of Scilly<\/td>\n<td>64<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Total<\/td>\n<td>1,608,638<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Top three local authorities<\/th>\n<th>Applications<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Birmingham<\/td>\n<td>24,731<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>City of Westminster<\/td>\n<td>22,391<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Leeds<\/td>\n<td>18,676<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Top three customers<\/th>\n<th>Transactions for value<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>My Home Move Limited<\/td>\n<td>2,087<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Countrywide Property Lawyers<\/td>\n<td>946<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>O\u2019Neill Patient<\/td>\n<td>913<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Top three customers<\/th>\n<th>Searches<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Enact<\/td>\n<td>9,062<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Optima Legal Services<\/td>\n<td>7,456<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>O\u2019Neill Patient<\/td>\n<td>6,637<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Access the full <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/data.gov.uk\/dataset\/monthly-land-registry-property-transaction-data\">dataset<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"notes-to-editors\">Notes to editors<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<p>Transaction Data is published on the 15th working day of each month. The April Transaction Data will be published at 11am on Monday 23 May 2016 on <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/data.gov.uk\/dataset\/monthly-land-registry-property-transaction-data\">data.gov.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The monthly Transaction Data shows how many applications for first registrations, leases, transfers of part, dealings, official copies and searches lodged by Land Registry account customers were completed. For an explanation of the terms used, see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/land-registry-transaction-data#abbreviations-used-in-the-transaction-data\">Abbreviations used in the transaction data<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Transactions for value include freehold and leasehold sales.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>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 Land Registry to register the purchase of the property.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>As a government department established in 1862, executive agency and trading fund responsible to the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, Land Registry keeps and maintains the Land Register for England and Wales. The Land Register has been open to public inspection since 1990.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>With the largest transactional database of its kind detailing more than 24 million titles, Land Registry underpins the economy by safeguarding ownership of many billions of pounds worth of property.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>For further information about Land Registry visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gov.uk\/land-registry\">www.gov.uk\/land-registry<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Follow us on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/landreggov\">Twitter@LandRegGov<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.landregistry.gov.uk\">blog<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/land-registry\">LinkedIn<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Land-Registry\/343223435769541\">Facebook<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h4 id=\"contact\">Contact<\/h4>\n<div class=\"contact postal-address\" id=\"contact_2010\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<h3>Press and PR Manager <\/h3>\n<div class=\"vcard contact-inner\">\n<p class=\"adr\">\n<span class=\"fn\">Marion Shelley<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"street-address\">Head Office<br \/>\n<br \/>\nTrafalgar House<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"locality\">1 Bedford Park<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"region\">Croydon<\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"postal-code\">CR0 2AQ<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"email-url-number\">\n<p class=\"email\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Email<\/span><br \/>\n              <a class=\"email\" href=\"mailto:marion.shelley@landregistry.gov.uk\">marion.shelley@landregistry.gov.uk<\/a>\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Telephone<\/span><br \/>\n              0300 0067543\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Mobile<\/span><br \/>\n              07790 690297\n            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This data provides information about the number and types of applications that Land Registry completed in March 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69807"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}