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How we're modernising our digital services to deliver faster land registration

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How we're modernising our digital services to deliver faster land registration

We passed our target for reducing the age of our oldest cases. To go further, we're accelerating our digital transformation to give customers faster, more efficient services whilst reducing the age of unprocessed applications. 

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The ABC of title registers

Posted by: Frank Ramsay, Posted on: 10 May 2018 - Categories: Buying and selling property
The ABC of title registers

...playing fields, foreshore, and some parts of the seabed. We recently created our 25 millionth title register, an electricity substation in Gateshead. When my sister-in-law was considering buying a house,...

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Preparing to launch our Local Land Charges live service

Posted by: Allison Bradbury, Head of Local Land Charges Programme, Posted on: 3 May 2018 - Categories: Digital services
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...statutory services. This is a historic step forward in the Government’s ambition to make the home-buying process simpler, faster and cheaper. It is also a core deliverable from our Business...

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Discovering what’s possible with Digital Street

Posted by: Lauren Tombs, Posted on: 1 May 2018 - Categories: Digital services
Transaction proof of concept

Anyone who’s keeping up with digital in government or changes to the conveyancing sector will have spotted references to our research and development project, Digital Street. The project has now...

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Why HM Land Registry wants to achieve comprehensive registration

Posted by: Maggie Telfer, Posted on: 27 April 2018 - Categories: Buying and selling property
Looking down on houses and plots of land

...is the official recording of property ownership. HM Land Registry records property ownership in the Land Register, which is the official ownership list for property in England and Wales. Northern...

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Designing digital services: as easy as 1, 2, 3

Posted by: Shaun Ewings, Posted on: 10 April 2018 - Categories: Digital services

...been put in by so many people turn into a successful outcome. But what are the takeaways and what’s next? 1. Speak to users frequently This new service has borrowers,...

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Autism, #TechLife, and me

Posted by: Jessica Ball, Posted on: 28 March 2018 - Categories: Working at HM Land Registry
Profile shot of Jessica Ball, IT Apprentice at HM Land Registry

I’m Jess and I have been working as an IT Apprentice at HM Land Registry since October 2016. I suffer from an autistic condition called Asperger’s Syndrome. This means I...

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Putting users first

Posted by: Steve Railton, Posted on: 26 March 2018 - Categories: Digital services
Good services are verbs. Bad services are nouns.

HM Land Registry is transforming digitally by focusing on user needs. Steve Railton explains how.

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When PropTech met SpaceTech: a marriage made in heaven?

Posted by: Edmond Boulle, Posted on: 21 March 2018 - Categories: Data
Satellites transmitting messages around the Earth

...providers can be merged to provide comprehensive property insight. This can make it quicker and easier to understand how legal rights and interests relate to physical land and property. Initially,...

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800 years in the making: Welsh Land Transaction Tax

Posted by: Antoinette Jeremiah, Posted on: 19 March 2018 - Categories: Law and practice
Conwy Castle

...the Land Transaction Tax Certificate. Upgrades have been made to Business Gateway and the portal, our online transactional channels that professional customers use, to accept the new Welsh Revenue Authority...

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Find property information: the easy way

Posted by: Mina Demaris, Posted on: 5 March 2018 - Categories: Digital services
Find information about a specific property

Product manager Mina Demaris explains how we used customer feedback to design many of the new features in our Find property information service.

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