Question follow-through · 13617
Housing: Foreign Nationals
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what information her Department holds on the number and proportion of residential properties that were bought by non-UK nationals in each of the last 20 years.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 11 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 13 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 19 Nov 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
11 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what information her Department holds on the number and proportion of residential properties that were bought by non-UK nationals in each of the last 20 years.
13 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Nov 2024
Answer published
HM Land Registry (HMLR) registers legal ownership, interests and mortgages against land and property in England and Wales. The Register of Title held by HMLR does not record the nationality of individuals who own land or property.HMLR publishes a dataset ...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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