HM Land Registry

aid: hm-land-registry
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/hm-land-registry/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: HM Land Registry
kind: company
description: 'HM Land Registry is the non-ministerial government department that registers the ownership of land and property
  in England and Wales, guaranteeing title to more than 26 million registered estates. In a United Kingdom market that has
  no MLS and no cooperative listing standard — residential listings are controlled by the Rightmove and Zoopla duopoly and
  reach them through agency CRM software — HMLR is the counterweight, and it sits at the legal foundation of the value chain
  rather than at the consumer end: it is the authoritative source of who owns what, what it sold for, and where its boundaries
  are, and every conveyancing transaction in England and Wales terminates at its register. Its API posture is genuinely and
  unusually good for a registry, but it is split into three tiers that should never be conflated. First, a real open layer:
  the landregistry.data.gov.uk platform serves a live, anonymous, unauthenticated SPARQL 1.1 endpoint plus a W3C Linked Data
  API over Price Paid Data and the UK House Price Index, with JSON/CSV/Turtle content negotiation, alongside bulk Price Paid
  CSVs and INSPIRE index polygons — all under the Open Government Licence v3.0 with no signup, no key and no fee. Second,
  a self-serve keyed tier: the Use land and property data service issues an API key automatically on account creation and
  exposes a documented REST API for dataset metadata and signed download URLs, but the datasets behind it require a signed
  licence per dataset and some are chargeable — the Registered Leases commercial licence is £5,000 a year plus VAT, and the
  National Polygon Service, which holds the title boundary polygons and the title number to UPRN lookup, is £20,000 a year
  plus VAT. A state registry selling the spatial extent of the public record back to the public is the finding, and it is
  recorded here plainly. Third, the Business Gateway: the B2B channel that conveyancers and their case management systems
  use to submit applications to change the register, order official copies and run priority searches. Its developer pack is
  fully public on GitHub Pages with eight downloadable OpenAPI 3.0/3.1 contracts and 37 SOAP XSDs, but the production host
  businessgateway.landregistry.gov.uk will not complete a TLS handshake without an HMLR-issued client certificate, and access
  requires signing a development licence and holding a business e-services account. There is no RESO Web API certification,
  no RESO Data Dictionary, no OData $metadata document and no Universal Property Identifier anywhere in HMLR''s stack — RESO
  is a North American NAR construct with no UK adoption, and HMLR''s machine-readable contracts are OpenAPI, XSD and W3C linked
  data instead.'
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: true
  label: Open Government Licence open data (no key) · self-serve API key for dataset service · licence + client certificate
    for Business Gateway
  confidence: high
  source:
  - documentation
  - authentication
  - terms-of-use
  generated: '2026-07-26'
  method: manual
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/groq.png
tags:
- Real Estate
- United Kingdom
- Land Registry
- Open Data
- Title
- Conveyancing
- Property Records
- Price Paid Data
- Linked Data
- Geospatial
- Government
- PropTech
created: '2026-07-26'
modified: '2026-07-26'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: hm-land-registry:hm-land-registry-open-data-sparql-api
  name: HM Land Registry Open Data SPARQL API
  description: Live SPARQL 1.1 query endpoint over HM Land Registry's open linked data — Price Paid Data transaction records
    for every property sale in England and Wales lodged for registration, and the UK House Price Index. Callable anonymously
    with no API key, no account and no licence signature; verified returning HTTP 200 with application/sparql-results+json
    on 2026-07-26. Results are available as table, plain text, JSON and XML. Published under the Open Government Licence v3.0
    with a required Crown copyright attribution statement.
  humanURL: http://landregistry.data.gov.uk/qonsole
  baseURL: https://landregistry.data.gov.uk/landregistry/query
  tags:
  - Open Data
  - SPARQL
  - Linked Data
  - Price Paid Data
  - United Kingdom
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: http://landregistry.data.gov.uk/qonsole
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.gov.uk/land-registry-public-data
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://landregistry.data.gov.uk/def/ppi
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://landregistry.data.gov.uk/def/common
  - type: TermsOfService
    url: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/
  - type: AgentSkill
    url: skills/hm-land-registry-query-open-price-paid-data.md
  - type: Sandbox
    url: http://landregistry.data.gov.uk/qonsole
    name: Qonsole live SPARQL console
- aid: hm-land-registry:hm-land-registry-price-paid-linked-data-api
  name: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data Linked Data API
  description: W3C Linked Data API over the Price Paid Data dataset, exposing every property sale in England and Wales sold
    for value and lodged for registration since 1995. Resources resolve at /data/ppi/ with content negotiation by file extension
    (.json, .csv, .ttl, .rdf) and standard Linked Data API paging parameters such as _pageSize and _page. No authentication
    of any kind is required; verified HTTP 200 anonymously on 2026-07-26. Bulk yearly and complete CSV files are also published
    on the price-paid-data.publicdata host. Open Government Licence v3.0.
  humanURL: http://landregistry.data.gov.uk/app/ppd/
  baseURL: https://landregistry.data.gov.uk/data/ppi
  tags:
  - Open Data
  - Linked Data
  - Price Paid Data
  - Transactions
  - United Kingdom
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: http://landregistry.data.gov.uk/app/ppd/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/about-the-price-paid-data
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://landregistry.data.gov.uk/def/ppi
  - type: BulkData
    url: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/price-paid-data-downloads
  - type: BulkData
    url: https://price-paid-data.publicdata.landregistry.gov.uk/pp-complete.csv
  - type: TermsOfService
    url: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/hm-land-registry-ppi.ttl
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/hm-land-registry-common.ttl
- aid: hm-land-registry:uk-house-price-index-linked-data-api
  name: UK House Price Index Linked Data API
  description: W3C Linked Data API over the UK House Price Index, the official house price statistic calculated by the Office
    for National Statistics from HM Land Registry, Registers of Scotland and Land and Property Services Northern Ireland sales
    data. Region and month resources resolve at /data/ukhpi/ with .json, .csv and .ttl representations carrying average price,
    index and percentage change broken out by property type, buyer type, funding type and new-build status. Anonymous, no
    key; verified HTTP 200 on 2026-07-26. Open Government Licence v3.0.
  humanURL: http://landregistry.data.gov.uk/app/ukhpi/
  baseURL: https://landregistry.data.gov.uk/data/ukhpi
  tags:
  - Open Data
  - Linked Data
  - Valuation
  - Statistics
  - United Kingdom
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: http://landregistry.data.gov.uk/app/ukhpi/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://landregistry.data.gov.uk/app/ukhpi/doc/ukhpi-user-guide
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/uk-house-price-index-reports
  - type: TermsOfService
    url: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/hm-land-registry-ukhpi.ttl
- aid: hm-land-registry:land-register-api
  name: Land Register API
  description: 'An OpenAPI 3.0.1 contract, version 6.0.0, titled "Land Register API" and published in the public Business
    Gateway developer pack. It describes two GET operations — /title/{titleNumber} and /draft-titles/{titleNumber} — and states
    that it "aims to be the primary method of accessing register data for HM Land Registry". No baseURL is recorded here because
    the specification declares no public production server: its servers list contains only localhost ports and internal HMLR
    hosts under development, test and *.stp.hmlr.zone. Access is not a developer product at all — it must be requested through
    the Digital Register project team, an individual bearer token is minted per consuming service, and the consumer must file
    a Fraud Impact Assessment and must not expose the data externally. Recorded as a real published contract for an internal
    government API, not as a callable public API.'
  humanURL: https://landregistry.github.io/bgtechdoc/
  tags:
  - Title
  - Property Records
  - Land Registry
  - Internal
  - United Kingdom
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/hm-land-registry-land-register-api-openapi.yml
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: https://landregistry.github.io/bgtechdoc/documents/openapi.yaml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://landregistry.github.io/bgtechdoc/
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/hm-land-registry-land-register-api-overlay.yaml
- aid: hm-land-registry:hm-land-registry-estimate-completion-date-openapi
  name: HM Land Registry Estimate Completion Date API
  description: HM Land Registry Estimate Completion Date API from HM Land Registry — 1 path(s) described in OpenAPI.
  humanURL: http://landregistry.data.gov.uk/qonsole
  baseURL: https://landregistry.data.gov.uk/landregistry/query
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/hm-land-registry-estimate-completion-date-openapi.yml
- aid: hm-land-registry:hm-land-registry-official-copy-document-availability-v1-customer-test-openapi
  name: HM Land Registry HMLR Business Gateway (Hm Land Registry Official Copy Document Availability V1 Customer Test)
  description: HM Land Registry HMLR Business Gateway from HM Land Registry — 1 path(s) described in OpenAPI.
  humanURL: http://landregistry.data.gov.uk/qonsole
  baseURL: https://landregistry.data.gov.uk/landregistry/query
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/hm-land-registry-official-copy-document-availability-v1-customer-test-openapi.json
- aid: hm-land-registry:hm-land-registry-official-copy-document-availability-v1-openapi
  name: HM Land Registry Official Copy Document Availability Service (Hm Land Registry Official Copy Document Availability
    V1)
  description: HM Land Registry Official Copy Document Availability Service from HM Land Registry — 1 path(s) described in
    OpenAPI.
  humanURL: http://landregistry.data.gov.uk/qonsole
  baseURL: https://landregistry.data.gov.uk/landregistry/query
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/hm-land-registry-official-copy-document-availability-v1-openapi.json
- aid: hm-land-registry:hm-land-registry-official-copy-document-availability-v2-customer-test-openapi
  name: HM Land Registry HMLR Business Gateway (Hm Land Registry Official Copy Document Availability V2 Customer Test)
  description: HM Land Registry HMLR Business Gateway from HM Land Registry — 1 path(s) described in OpenAPI.
  humanURL: http://landregistry.data.gov.uk/qonsole
  baseURL: https://landregistry.data.gov.uk/landregistry/query
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/hm-land-registry-official-copy-document-availability-v2-customer-test-openapi.json
- aid: hm-land-registry:hm-land-registry-official-copy-document-availability-v2-openapi
  name: HM Land Registry Official Copy Document Availability Service (Hm Land Registry Official Copy Document Availability
    V2)
  description: HM Land Registry Official Copy Document Availability Service from HM Land Registry — 1 path(s) described in
    OpenAPI.
  humanURL: http://landregistry.data.gov.uk/qonsole
  baseURL: https://landregistry.data.gov.uk/landregistry/query
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/hm-land-registry-official-copy-document-availability-v2-openapi.json
- aid: hm-land-registry:hm-land-registry-official-search-of-whole-with-data-openapi
  name: HM Land Registry Official Search of Whole with Data
  description: HM Land Registry Official Search of Whole with Data from HM Land Registry — 1 path(s) described in OpenAPI.
  humanURL: http://landregistry.data.gov.uk/qonsole
  baseURL: https://landregistry.data.gov.uk/landregistry/query
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/hm-land-registry-official-search-of-whole-with-data-openapi.yml
- aid: hm-land-registry:hm-land-registry-registered-proprietor-names-openapi
  name: HM Land Registry Registered Proprietor Names Service
  description: HM Land Registry Registered Proprietor Names Service from HM Land Registry — 1 path(s) described in OpenAPI.
  humanURL: http://landregistry.data.gov.uk/qonsole
  baseURL: https://landregistry.data.gov.uk/landregistry/query
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/hm-land-registry-registered-proprietor-names-openapi.json
- aid: hm-land-registry:hm-land-registry-submit-application-to-change-the-register-v0-3-openapi
  name: HM Land Registry V0.3 'Submit an application to change the Land Register API' Schema
  description: HM Land Registry V0.3 'Submit an application to change the Land Register API' Schema from HM Land Registry
    — 6 path(s) described in OpenAPI.
  humanURL: http://landregistry.data.gov.uk/qonsole
  baseURL: https://landregistry.data.gov.uk/landregistry/query
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/hm-land-registry-submit-application-to-change-the-register-v0.3-openapi.json
- aid: hm-land-registry:hm-land-registry-submit-application-to-change-the-register-v1-0-openapi
  name: HM Land Registry V1.0 'Submit an application to change the Land Register API' Schema
  description: HM Land Registry V1.0 'Submit an application to change the Land Register API' Schema from HM Land Registry
    — 10 path(s) described in OpenAPI.
  humanURL: http://landregistry.data.gov.uk/qonsole
  baseURL: https://landregistry.data.gov.uk/landregistry/query
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/hm-land-registry-submit-application-to-change-the-register-v1.0-openapi.json
- aid: hm-land-registry:hm-land-registry-use-land-property-data-openapi
  name: HM Land Registry Use Land and Property Data API
  description: HM Land Registry Use Land and Property Data API from HM Land Registry — 4 path(s) described in OpenAPI.
  humanURL: http://landregistry.data.gov.uk/qonsole
  baseURL: https://landregistry.data.gov.uk/landregistry/query
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/hm-land-registry-use-land-property-data-openapi.yml
common:
- type: IssueTracker
  url: https://github.com/LandRegistry/bgtechdoc/issues
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/hm-land-registry-agentic-access.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/hm-land-registry-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/hm-land-registry-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/hm-land-registry-authentication.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/land-registry
- type: Documentation
  url: https://landregistry.github.io/bgtechdoc/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://use-land-property-data.service.gov.uk/api-information
- type: APIReference
  url: https://use-land-property-data.service.gov.uk/api-documentation
- type: Authentication
  url: https://landregistry.github.io/bgtechdoc/rest/get_started/developer_guide/index.html
- type: OpenData
  url: https://landregistry.data.gov.uk/
- type: OpenData
  url: https://www.gov.uk/land-registry-public-data
- type: BulkData
  url: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/price-paid-data-downloads
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://use-land-property-data.service.gov.uk/service-terms-of-use
- type: License
  url: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/
- type: SignUp
  url: https://use-land-property-data.service.gov.uk/registration
- type: Onboarding
  url: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/direct-integration-with-business-gateway
- type: Onboarding
  url: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/hm-land-registry-business-gateway
- type: DeveloperPack
  url: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/business-gateway-developer-pack
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/LandRegistry
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://github.com/LandRegistry/bgtechdoc
- type: Glossary
  url: https://landregistry.github.io/bgtechdoc/support/glossary/
- type: Support
  url: https://use-land-property-data.service.gov.uk/contact
- type: Accessibility
  url: https://use-land-property-data.service.gov.uk/accessibility-statement
- type: Packages
  url: packages/hm-land-registry-packages.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/hm-land-registry-well-known.yml
- type: SecurityTxt
  url: well-known/hm-land-registry-gov-uk-security.txt
- type: SecurityTxt
  url: well-known/hm-land-registry-use-land-property-data-security.txt
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/hm-land-registry-mcp.yml
- type: ToolCrosswalk
  url: mcp/hm-land-registry-tool-crosswalk.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/hm-land-registry-llms.txt
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/hm-land-registry-conformance.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/hm-land-registry-problem-types.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/hm-land-registry-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/hm-land-registry-conventions.yml
- type: Idempotency
  url: conventions/hm-land-registry-conventions.yml
- type: Sandbox
  url: sandbox/hm-land-registry-sandbox.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/hm-land-registry-changelog.yml
- type: Components
  url: components/hm-land-registry-components.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/hm-land-registry-data-model.yml
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/hm-land-registry-ppi.ttl
  name: Price Paid Data ontology
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/hm-land-registry-ukhpi.ttl
  name: UK House Price Index ontology
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/hm-land-registry-common.ttl
  name: HM Land Registry common ontology
- type: Examples
  url: examples/_index.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: Security
  url: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/report-a-vulnerability-on-an-hm-land-registry-service-or-system
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://landregistry.github.io/bg-dev-pack-redesign/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://landregistry.github.io/bg-dev-pack-redesign/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://landregistry.github.io/bg-dev-pack-redesign/find-a-service-api
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://landregistry.github.io/bg-dev-pack-redesign/how-to-access-business-gateway
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://landregistry.github.io/bgtechdoc/rest/get_started/developer_guide/index.html
- type: Blog
  url: https://hmlandregistry.blog.gov.uk/
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/hm-land-registry-registration-services-fees
- type: SignUp
  url: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/apply-for-hm-land-registry-business-e-services
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://landregistry.github.io/bg-dev-pack-redesign/terms-of-use
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/land-registry/about/personal-information-charter
- type: Support
  url: https://landregistry.github.io/bg-dev-pack-redesign/contact-us
- type: Support
  url: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/join-the-business-gateway-community
- type: Glossary
  url: https://landregistry.github.io/bg-dev-pack-redesign/glossary
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://github.com/LandRegistry/bg-dev-pack-redesign
- type: Testing
  url: https://landregistry.github.io/bg-dev-pack-redesign/a-guide-to-testing
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com