HM Land Registry launches its ambitious new Strategy 2025+

Our Strategy 2025+ outlines how we will continue working with government, customers and stakeholders to deliver more efficient digital services, expertise and accessible property information to unlock a better, faster and less stressful property market. The strategy builds on the strong progress made in recent years to put the customer at the heart of everything.

More HM Land Registry customers are saving time and money with right-first-time applications

Application quality is increasing. Nearly one-third of qualifying customers are saving time with fewer queries on their applications. But we still have work to do. Look out for your email with details of your firm's avoidable requisitions rate.

How to deal with restrictions in the register

We see a lot of applications seeking to disapply or modify a restriction in the title register where this is either incorrect or unnecessary. In this blog, senior practitioners consider how best – from HM Land Registry's point of view – to tackle restrictions that are no longer fit for purpose.

How HM Land Registry works to protect property owners

An understanding and awareness of property and title fraud, and how to guard against them, is critical in supporting our frontline defences as well as the wider public and business sectors – not just on the 25th anniversary of International Fraud Awareness Week but at all times.

October 2025 Transaction Data

We completed 2,089,280 applications in October, compared with 1,983,030 in September 2025 and 2,140,187 last October 2024. A total of 228,940 were search and hold queries (official searches), compared with 223,170 in September.

Help us improve the portal – we need your views

We’re currently reviewing portal design and navigation, and we’d love to hear from you. There are two groups of people we are particularly interested in.

If you’ve been using the portal for less than six months, can you share your experience of finding your way around it? Ideally, we would like to hear how you have got on with Enquiries and Applications.

If you are an experienced user of the portal, can you share your experiences using its main features? We are particularly interested in hearing about how you have got on with Application Tracking or Cancellations.

Participation is very straightforward and completely anonymous. Please email lisa.brooker@landregistry.gov.uk and we’ll arrange an online research interview. The interview should take around 30 minutes and will be done at a time to suit you. If you’re happy to share your screen during the session, we’d love to see how you use the portal in practice.

Thank you for helping us shape a better portal experience.

HM Land Registry launches new APIs to save customers time

We have improved our digital services for customers who use software connected to Business Gateway application programming interfaces (APIs). APIs are software components that automatically update data between HM Land Registry and our customers. The update will ensure a more reliable and flexible service for those developing software through the introduction of new APIs with a modern ‘RESTful architecture’.

Join us for our latest Application Support Workshop

Want a quick tip to make your life as easy as possible? Learn how to make right-first-time applications to HM Land Registry!

Join our free online workshop at 10am on Tuesday 9 December. We’ll show you how to avoid the most common pitfalls that hold up applications. And with poll questions and knowledge checks we’ll keep you on your toes.

The 90-minute session ends with a live question and answer session – a great opportunity to delve into the topics covered with our expert caseworkers.

What people are saying about our workshops

"I rated the workshop 10/10 because it provided clear, practical insights that I can directly apply in my daily work."

"I already have recommended the course to a colleague."

"The information was both varied and helpful, and it provided clarity on several issues about which many of us were uncertain."

Practice guide updates

We have updated:

• First registrations (PG1); and
• Charitable incorporated organisations (PG14a).

See our full Practice guides collection. For details on the updates to our guides, subscribe to our monthly Practice and Process newsletter.

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