Keeping a close eye on your property helps us prevent potential fraud

International Fraud Awareness Week 2024 takes place this week, seeing hundreds of organisations arou...

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We are simplifying the registration of personal covenants 

We are making the process by which we enter personal covenants in the register more consistent. Cust...

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Assessing the viability of housing development sites  

Viability co-founders Henry Mayell and Adria Tarrida Property technology (PropTech) start-up Viabili...

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Are you paying too much for HM Land Registry services?

If you are looking for information about land or property in England or Wales, you will probably wan...

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The scale and cost of requisitions

In part one of this blog, we explored how HM Land Registry is reducing the number of requisitions we...

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How are we reducing the number of requisitions we send?

Chonlatee42/Shutterstock.com While our overriding focus is on reducing the age of our oldest applica...

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It’s now much easier to add additional parties to Digital Registration Service applications

BushAlex/Shutterstock.com HM Land Registry now processes more than 1.5 million applications annually...

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Improving our digital services

David Gyung/Shutterstock.com We have made a number of key improvements to our digital services over ...

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Asking for guidance part 3: The case of the curious caution 

Approximately 65% of complex applications receive requisitions. This is because some points are hard...

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How Zero Down Lease is taking the fear out of leasehold extensions

Zero Down Lease took part in the Geovation Accelerator Programme in 2022. The programme is co-sponso...

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We’ll need the original deeds

ULKASTUDIO/Shutterstock.com From October 2024 we will no longer accept conveyancer applications for ...

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Changes to our address for service policy and practices

We are constantly looking to improve clarity and consistency, as well as aiming to reduce the number...

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How sharing your experience helps to improve the Digital Registration Service

Thapana_Studio/Shutterstock.com HM Land Registry’s Digital Registration Service (DRS) was launched i...

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Asking for guidance part 2: The case of the vexing restrictions

Approximately 65% of complex applications receive requisitions. This is because some points are hard...

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Accounting for discounts and incentives in developer applications

Konmac/Shutterstock.com We receive a lot of applications that refer to discounts and incentives, but...

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Can 6,700 Practice and Process subscribers be wrong?

Launching any new publication is an anxious time for everyone involved. Have we got the format right...

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Amalgamation or merger – what’s the difference?

Gajus/Shutterstock.com At HM Land Registry we find that applicants sometimes mistakenly refer to ama...

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Recognising the vital work of conveyancers

Reflecting on last week’s second National Conveyancing Week (NCW), we want to take this valuable opp...

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Veya’s use of HM Land Registry data to speed up property transactions

Veya was a participant in the Geovation Accelerator Programme in 2019 – a programme which provides g...

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Benefits of a collaborative approach

National law firm Blake Morgan LLP is one of our most prolific customers by volume of applications. ...

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HM Land Registry wants your views

Gajus/Shutterstock.com HM Land Registry conducts quarterly customer satisfaction surveys through tel...

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Tried and tested tips for reducing requisitions 

@hsleathphoto HM Land Registry is working with customers to help drive down the number of requests f...

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Avoiding the simple errors that cause delays

Piranhi/Shutterstock.com Improving the speed of our services is our top priority. We continue to mak...

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Using legal software to submit digital applications 

Andrey Suslov/Shutterstock.com As of 30 November this year, applications into HM Land Registry are ‘...

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Digital by default – the day has arrived

HM Land Registry has hit a major milestone following the publication of our 2022+ Strategy: we are n...

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The HM Land Registry portal redesign

Since it was launched in 2009, our customer portal has become the front door into HM Land Registry f...

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Working in user-centred design at HM Land Registry

Why user-centred design is so important HM Land Registry records ownership changes for every registe...

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Why work in IT at HM Land Registry?

everything possible/Shutterstock.com IT Operations makes sure that vital land registration work can ...

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Protecting your property from fraud: Form LL – the ‘counter-fraud’ restriction

  A restriction in the property title register limits the owner’s ability to deal with the property....

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What kind of joint ownership do I have?

Grand Warszawski/Shutterstock.com People often call our Customer Support Centre to ask about joint o...

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