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

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

Application quality is increasing, but we still have work to do. Look out for your email with details of your avoidable requisitions score.

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How old is my house?

Posted by: Frank Ramsay, Posted on: 26 January 2018 - Categories: Buying and selling property, Historic
Row of houses, varying in age.

People sometimes ask us "How old is my house?", because they need this information to take out building insurance. Here are some things you can do to explore the age of a property.

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Opening our conveyancer data

Posted by: Andrew Robertson, Head of Customer Policy and Service Improvement, Posted on: 28 December 2017 - Categories: Buying and selling property, Data
New housing estate

Our Head of Customer Policy, Andrew Robertson, sets out how and why we are looking at opening up our conveyancer data.

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World-leading through digital transformation

Posted by: John Abbott, Posted on: 18 December 2017 - Categories: Digital services
Streets on a mobile phone

...whilst enhancing the integrity and security of our register against threats from cyber-attacks and digital fraud. cigdem/Shutterstock.com Digital Street Digital Street is one of our key projects, and vital to...

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Becoming the world’s leading land registry

Posted by: Graham Farrant, Posted on: 13 December 2017 - Categories: Buying and selling property, Digital services
ity of London and Southwark skyline showing buildings such as the Gherkin, the Cheesegrater and the Shard.

...guaranteed and protected’, reflects this heritage and reinforces our commitment to put our customers right at the heart of our organisation. We have just released our Business Strategy 2017 to...

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Our UK HPI changes: greater accuracy, fewer revisions

Posted by: Rhys Lewis, Posted on: 15 November 2017 - Categories: Buying and selling property, Data
Row of houses

...property to be registered while new builds can take a little longer. This means that when the UK HPI is first published it is based on approximately 40% of the...

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We've released more HM Land Registry data free of charge

Posted by: Andrew Trigg, Chief Geospatial & Data Officer, HM Land Registry, Posted on: 7 November 2017 - Categories: Data
Binary numbers superimposed on a map of the world to suggest the scope of data releases.

...and Overseas Companies Ownership (OCOD) datasets were released free of charge for the first time. These datasets contain information on properties, where the registered legal owner is a UK company,...

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My experience as a Civil Service Fast Streamer at HM Land Registry

Posted by: Aun Abidi, Posted on: 13 October 2017 - Categories: Working at HM Land Registry
Civil Service logo saying: 'Where talented people do brilliant things.'

...you an insight into what HMLR and the Civil Service means to me. Many of my friends who work in financial services in the private sector have asked me, “Why...

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GOV.UK – what we’re working on: September 2017

Posted by: Stephanie Hill, Posted on: 2 October 2017 - Categories: Digital services

Numbers are not everything “Numbers are not everything – your audience is not made of analytics but made with real people who will react and take actions,” said Agnieszka Murdoch‏...

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Let's hear IT for the girls

Posted by: Kim O'Flaherty, Posted on: 29 September 2017 - Categories: Working at HM Land Registry
Kim O'Flaherty

...computing at GCSE! I'm looking at getting out more and going out to schools to spread the message that tech is a fantastic career for girls. When I was at...

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Our war poet

Posted by: Peter Mayer, Posted on: 28 September 2017 - Categories: Historic
Guy Kindersley

...The Peace Cry he also foresaw that no lasting peace would arise from the Versailles Treaty: “Ye may seal and sign your parchments, your legions may disperse, Ye may strip...

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