Question follow-through · 53732
Land and Property: Foreign Nationals
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many titles on the Land Register are owned by overseas individuals or entities; and what the combined purchase price of such titles was in each of the last five years.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 20 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 4 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 4 Jun 2025 · 15 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
20 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many titles on the Land Register are owned by overseas individuals or entities; and what the combined purchase price of such titles was in each of the last five years.
4 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
4 Jun 2025
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 28 Sept 2026.
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