Building the service you need
Building the service you need
We’ve made real headway on improving our speed of registration but it remains our number one priority.
The road to realising our data ambitions
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Andrew Trigg, Chief Geospatial & Data Officer, HM Land Registry, Posted on:
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Data
Read our latest updates and achievements as we continue to work toward realising our ambition of becoming the world’s leading land registry for speed, simplicity, and an open approach to data.
Electronic signatures in practice
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Robin Malpas, Deputy Director, Central Legal Services, Posted on:
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Buying and selling property, Law and practice
We have issued new guidance on accepting electronic signatures. During the consultation on this guidance, a few key questions were raised.
Speeding up Local Land Charges delivery
Each local authority migrating their data to our Local Land Charges Register will now be provided with a support package selected according to their particular needs.
Electronic signatures in conveyancing
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Mike Harlow, Deputy Chief Executive and Director of Customer and Strategy, Posted on:
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Buying and selling property, Digital services, Law and practice
We will soon start accepting electronic signatures. Find out which form of electronic signatures we are looking at, how these may be used and how you can tell us what you think.
Legal challenges in challenging times
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Robin Malpas, Deputy Director, Central Legal Services, Posted on:
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Buying and selling property, Law and practice
Traditional legal formalities have presented difficult practical problems during the coronavirus crisis. We have been listening to our customers and working very hard to try to make things easier in these unprecedented times.
We are stronger going forward
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Chris Pope, Chief Operations Officer, Posted on:
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Buying and selling property, Law and practice
Over the last few weeks we have become more flexible in our decision-making and more responsive to our customers’ needs. The future looks bright but we and the property sector continue to face some real challenges.
Rising to the challenge
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Chris Pope, Chief Operations Officer, Posted on:
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Buying and selling property, Law and practice
The coronavirus pandemic has been a very challenging time for us and our customers but we are now in a much stronger position. We are taking the opportunity to look at the level of service we provide and ask our customers about their priorities and how they feel we should prioritise our work.
How we’ve delivered the Local Land Charges service during coronavirus
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Allison Bradbury, Head of Local Land Charges Programme, Posted on:
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Local Land Charges
Since the coronavirus lockdown began we have made sure our Local Land Charges Register remains available to customers, with our technical team working remotely to support it. March saw our fourth highest volume of official local land charges searches sold to date.
Facing up to the digital identity challenge
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Mike Harlow, Deputy Chief Executive and Director of Customer and Strategy, Posted on:
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Digital services, Law and practice
Cryptographic and biometric identity checks may be the solution for conveyancers when verifying an applicant’s identity, according to the Law Society, the Council for Licensed Conveyancers, the Chartered Institute for Legal Executives and HM Land Registry.
A portal to time saved
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Eddie Davies, Deputy Director – Digital Services (Head of Product), Posted on:
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Digital services
The HM Land Registry portal has played a crucial role in ensuring we continue to process as many applications as possible during the coronavirus pandemic. We’ve been working on a few enhancements to this vital service to make it even simpler to use.