Guidance

HM Land Registry: ownership change indicator

Local authorities can get a monthly record of changes to residential property ownership within their area.

From:
HM Land Registry
Published
9 June 2016

This guidance was withdrawn on

HM Land Registry no longer offer the Ownership Change Indicator service for local authorities.

To identify recent sales in your area, download our price paid data and filter by locality: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/price-paid-data-downloads

Alternatively, use our report builder and select a specific local authority: http://landregistry.data.gov.uk/app/ppd

To find out who the owner of a property is, use our Find Property Information service: https://www.gov.uk/search-property-information-land-registry

Applies to England and Wales

This service is available to local authorities under a data sharing agreement.

Each month, we send you a file that identifies ownership changes on recent residential property sales within a defined administrative area. Anomalies with house numbering, splits or new properties are highlighted.

This service can help you:

  • improve the information within your database
  • avoid delays when getting names of new occupants
  • create council tax accounts more quickly
  • confirm the date of legal ownership
  • identify house sales with sitting tenants

More information

To find out more information about this service, please contact us.

Data Services Team

HM Land Registry
Rosebrae Court
Woodside Ferry Approach
Birkenhead
Merseyside
CH41 6DU

Email data.services@mail.landregistry.gov.uk

Contact form https://help.landregis...

Telephone 0300 006 0478

Published 9 June 2016