January 2026 Transaction Data

24.2.2026 - | Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs

This data provides information about the number and types of applications that HM Land Registry completed in January 2026.

Please note this data shows what HM Land Registry has been able to process during the time period covered and is not necessarily a reflection of market activity.

In January:

HM Land Registry completed over 1,919,990 applications to change or query the Land Register
the South East topped the table of regional applications with 437,584

HM Land Registry completed 1,919,998 applications in January compared with 1,607,442 in December 2025 and 1,886,714 in January 2025, of which:

393,604 were applications for register updates compared with 325,571 in December
1,054,084 were applications for an official copy of a register compared with 847,534 in December
189,744 were search and hold queries (official searches) compared with 205,457 in December
114,764 were transactions for value compared with 90,793 in December
15,868 were postal applications from non-account holders compared with 14,621 in December

Applications by region and country

Region/country	November applications	December applications	January applications
South East	404,274	389,667	437,584
Greater London	411,231	288,278	352,578
North West	206,100	175,006	218,537
South West	177,701	155,058	186,043
West Midlands	153,912	133,553	161,177
Yorkshire and the Humber	147,573	128,352	155,481
East Midlands	135,149	116,546	144,868
North	90,699	80,285	95,339
East Anglia	75,701	65,951	80,369
Isles of Scily	58	61	70
Wales	85,576	74,622	87,843
England and Wales (not assigned)	94	63	109
Total	1,888,068	1,607,442	1,919,998

Top 5 local authority areas

January 2026 applications

Top 5 local authority areas	January applications
Birmingham	28,910
City of Westminster	24,035
Leeds	22,062
North Yorkshire	21,528
Buckinghamshire	20,174

Top 5 customers

January 2026 applications

Top 5 customers	January applications
InfoTrack Limited	195,449
Enact	38,350
O’Neill Patient	35,616
Landmark Information Group Ltd	31,577
Orbital Witness Limited	30,041

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Next publication

Transaction Data is published on the 15th working day of each month. The February 2026 data will be published at 11am on Friday 20 March 2026.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/january-2026-transaction-data