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Qualified Electronic Signatures: Answering your questions

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Qualified Electronic Signatures: Answering your questions

Following HM Land Registry's recent announcement that we will accept Qualified Electronic Signatures (QES), we've put together answers to your most frequently asked questions to help you understand how this is working in practice.

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World-leading through digital transformation

Posted by: John Abbott, Posted on: 18 December 2017 - Categories: Digital services
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...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
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...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
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...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
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...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
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...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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GOV.UK - what we’re working on: August 2017

Posted by: Stephanie Hill, Posted on: 1 September 2017 - Categories: Digital services
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...people miss the old website, but it’s important to remember that it contained a lot of duplication and wasn’t focused on user needs. Helping people online The times when people...

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Need help comparing house price indices?

Posted by: Jackie Lynch, Posted on: 1 August 2017 - Categories: Data
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How do you accurately compare apples with oranges, when looking at average house prices across the UK? That was the problem facing users of house price indices until now. For...

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