How might Land Registry operate post privatisation? Well last week Land Registry released over 3.2 million ownership records of freehold and leasehold land and property in England and Wales for a fee, this might give an insight into how Land Registry may seek to monetise the data it holds for us all in the future.
Commercial & Corporate Ownership Data (C&COD) offers online access to a dataset of all ownership categories, except private Individuals, overseas companies, charities and trustees. C&COD is a chargeable service.
Andrew Trigg, Head of Data Programme said “with more than three million titles available, we believe this dataset will greatly benefit our customers, opening up an array of opportunities for internal data enhancements and new commercial services. This dataset has been requested by customers and developed after months of collaboration.”
The Information available
- land description or property address with administrative area
- name and address of the legal (commercial and corporate) owner(s)
- date the owner was registered at Land Registry
- ownership category
- title numbers
- tenure (freehold/leasehold).
“To ensure our customers have an opportunity to make an informed decision about the data, we’ve introduced a new initiative that allows them to review and test a sub-set of the data free of charge before purchase”, said Lynne Nicholson, Senior Product Manager. “The data can only be used internally for six weeks, but we believe this will provide added assurance and help our customers understand how it can best be used.”
C&COD costs include data supply charges and flexible pricing options for organisations of all sizes with three different supply packages and quarterly usage royalties for commercial reuse. The data is supplied in CSV format, enabling easy integration with other datasets, should this be required.
For more information please contact our Business Development team on 0800 678 1678 or email datapublication@landregistry.gsi.gov.uk
