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Reducing requisitions:  Trowers & Hamlins’ quality-led approach  

Reducing requisitions:  Trowers & Hamlins’ quality-led approach  

How one commercial firm keeps avoidable requisitions low by building quality into complex property work.

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UK House Price Index – National Statistic status achieved

Posted by: David Lockett, Posted on: 18 September 2018 - Categories: Buying and selling property, Data
Aerial view of houses with text: 'National Statistic status achieved'.

The UK House Price Index is now a National Statistic, demonstrating it meets the highest standards of trustworthiness, quality and value. David Lockett celebrates its successes and looks forward to an even brighter future.

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Supporting our customers with valuable data

Posted by: Eileen Morrison, Posted on: 5 September 2018 - Categories: Data, Working at HM Land Registry
Our Data Services Team pictured by the Mersey river in Birkenhead

...teams that are responsible for its development. This information can assist them with formatting datasets for publication. In addition to the commercial and data products, we also deal with all...

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Empowering our expert people: what our employee development looks like

Posted by: Lynn Narramore, Posted on: 3 August 2018 - Categories: Working at HM Land Registry

Our award-winning Organisation and Employee Development Team ensure we have the technical, professional and leadership skills we need to deliver excellent customer service. Lynn Narramore explains how.

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Registering new builds: Can we fix it? Yes, we can!

Posted by: Ian Howe, Posted on: 18 July 2018 - Categories: Digital services
A housing estate being developed

...This is solved by lots of letters and phone calls. Again, we had a hypothesis: what could happen if this state of readiness was more visible to more people, earlier...

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The busy world of HM Land Registry

Posted by: Mike Harlow, Deputy Chief Executive and Director of Customer and Strategy, Posted on: 12 July 2018 - Categories: Buying and selling property
People moving quickly through our office

...freely. All of these are owned by someone. This is our field of work. It is very real; very visual. The ease with which you use those places and move...

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The official England squad house price mashup

Posted by: Frank Ramsay, Posted on: 3 July 2018 - Categories: Data
England flag with houses

...will vary over time; just like player performances. The official England squad house price mashup Harry Maguire Maguire Street, London SE1 2NQ Average house price: £1,540,055 Gary Cahill Cahill Street,...

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An officer and a civil servant: reflections on Armed Forces Day

Posted by: Dirk Danino-Forsyth, Posted on: 29 June 2018 - Categories: Working at HM Land Registry
Dirk Danino-Forsyth at Sandhurst

To celebrate Armed Forces Day tomorrow, Second Lieutenant Dirk Danino-Forsyth describes why he became an army reservist and how HM Land Registry helps him to balance his two roles.

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GetRentr: from personal experience to guiding purpose

Posted by: Orla Shields, Chief Executive Officer, GetRentr, Posted on: 20 June 2018 - Categories: Data
Woman using the GetRentr service on a laptop to search a map

...licensing scheme and granted councils powers to impose additional and/or selective schemes within their boroughs to raise standards further; especially targeting less affluent areas where tenants are deemed to be...

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Facing up to my depression

Posted by: David Briggs, Posted on: 21 May 2018 - Categories: Working at HM Land Registry
David Briggs

...but it crept up slowly and it wasn’t until my body reacted that I sought help. My doctor described it as a chemical imbalance in the brain; like running a...

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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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