HM Land Registry accomplished over 1.82 million purposes to change or question deeds in May, down 0.3% from the earlier month and 6.7% decrease than a 12 months in the past.
The newest information from the land title physique comes as ‘work to rule’ motion by staff on the division enters its sixth month.
The South East topped the desk of regional purposes with 412,654 in May in contrast to 408,047 the earlier month.
This was adopted by Greater London with 342,449 purposes in opposition to 336,247 the earlier month and the North West, with 207,014 in contrast to 208,094 in April.
Industrial motion by round 3,800 Public and Commercial Services Union registry staff primarily based in 14 places of work throughout England and Wales started within the remaining week of January.
The union stated final week that “motion wanting a strike” continues on the places of work over a dispute that issues employees hours labored from dwelling amongst different points.
In February, the division stated it will introduce digital checks that may reduce on the straightforward errors in names or title numbers on purposes that may save clients lots of of hundreds of hours a 12 months.
It added it will start working with third-party integrators on the brand new service within the autumn, which is able to take a number of months to introduce.
