Track your HM Land Registry applications through an API

What you can build on the portal

• List applications and their status

  Build this

  Reads View Applications for you or a colleague: each application's type, progress status, estimated completion date and whether a requisition is unresolved.

  Takes

  Colleague (optional), progress status (optional), unresolved requisitions only (optional)

  Returns

  Title number, HM Land Registry reference, customer reference, application type, progress status, estimated completion date, correspondence For Review

• Get pending applications on a title

  Build this

  Runs an Application Enquiry under Information Services for a title number and reads the pending applications and official searches with priority.

  Takes

  Title number

  Returns

  HM Land Registry reference, application type, progress status, reasons for delay, expedition approved, priority period end

• List new PDF downloads

  Build this

  Reads the PDF downloads area under General Facilities, in My downloads or Business Unit downloads, filtered to new downloads.

  Takes

  Download category, title number or customer reference (optional)

  Returns

  Title number, customer reference, viewed or not, file names

• Order official copies of a register

  Build this

  Uses Request official copies under Information Services to order the register and title plan for a title number, and submits the request with its fee.

  Takes

  Title number, your reference, register, title plan

  Returns

  Title number, documents ordered, available immediately or by post, fee

Automate the portal with a workflow

A workflow runs your methods as one process, with nobody at the screen. A schedule or a call from your own system starts it, the steps run in order, and the result arrives in your inbox or in the systems you already use.

• Requisitions For Review, every morning

  Build this

  Starts

  Every weekday at 7:00

  Step 1

  List applications in View Applications with unresolved requisitions only.

  Step 2

  Keep the applications whose correspondence For Review was not there on the last run.

  Step 3

  Email you each one with its title number, customer reference and application type.

• New completion documents, to your case management system

  Build this

  Starts

  Every weekday at 8:00

  Step 1

  List new PDF downloads in Business Unit downloads.

  Step 2

  Stop when there are none.

  Step 3

  Post title number, customer reference and file names to your case management system's webhook.

• Weekly report of pending applications

  Build this

  Starts

  Every Monday at 8:00

  Step 1

  List every pending application in View Applications.

  Step 2

  Group them by application type and progress status with an AI step.

  Step 3

  Email you the report with each application's estimated completion date.

You can run a workflow by hand on every plan, Free included. Schedules and webhook triggers come with the paid plans, from $29 a month.

Once built, one call from your code

Once you have built a method, it is one POST to /v1/runs from your backend, or a tool an AI agent calls over MCP. This is what “List applications and their status” would look like.

curl https://api.fous.com/v1/runs \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FOUS_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "method": "eservices.landregistry.gov.uk/list_applications",
    "input": {
      "unresolved_requisitions_only": true
    }
  }'

{
  "status": "completed",
  "data": {
    "applications": [
      {
        "title_number": "AB123456",
        "hmlr_reference": "D123ABC",
        "customer_reference": "NW/0412/Acme",
        "application_type": "Transfer of whole",
        "progress_status": "In progress",
        "estimated_completion_date": "2026-12-08",
        "correspondence_for_review": [
          {
            "issued": "2026-11-06",
            "subject": "Requisition: evidence of identity"
          }
        ]
      }
    ],
    "count": 1
  }
}

An example with invented data, not a ready-made endpoint. The method exists in your organization once you build it, and its name, inputs and fields follow your request.

The portal’s own options

HM Land Registry offers Business Gateway, which connects a firm's own software to its systems. Most customers reach it through software from third-party suppliers; a firm can also integrate directly after signing a development licence and building against a test environment. Without it, you use the portal itself, which is free to sign up for.

Read on November 12, 2026: HM Land Registry: Business Gateway, Direct integration with Business Gateway, View Applications.

Signing in to the portal

Each person signs in to the portal with their own user ID and password, created by the firm's Business Unit Administrator. The administrator also uses a security token that shows an 8-digit number when creating or updating user accounts. With Fous you sign in once through the portal's own sign-in with your own account, and the login is sealed with AES-256. When a session expires, Fous signs back in.

Worth knowing

Open from 6.30am to 11pm

The portal is available from 6.30am to 11pm every day, so a scheduled check has to run inside those hours.

PDFs stay free for 90 days

Completion documents in PDF downloads can be opened free of charge for 90 days from the day the registration was completed.

Limits for Business Gateway applications

Reply to Requisition does not support applications lodged through Business Gateway, and View Applications does not show their documents.

The estimated date is per type

The Estimated Completion Date in View Applications is when 90% of that application type are likely to be completed, not a date for your application.

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