Vision for Land Registration Authorities Paul Dowse – Land Registry Head of Strategic Development Allison Bradbury – Land Registry Strategic Development Manager Presentation to the Working Party on Land Administration, UNECE, 2012: http://www.landregistry.gov.uk/announcements/2012/unece-conference-2012

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Vision for Land Registration Authorities
Paul Dowse – Land Registry Head of Strategic Development
Allison Bradbury – Land Registry Strategic Development Manager
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Content
• Purpose of Land registration Authorities
• Key facts 1952 vs. 2012 and beyond
• S k h ld
Stakeholder needsd
• What is our purpose now?
• Vision for Land Registration Authorities
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Purpose of Land Registration Authorities
Accurate administration of all real
property units
Consequent documentation of all
private, public and company‐specific
buildings and added land units
Public knowledge and information
about all rights of ownership
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2. What a difference a Jubilee makes?
1952 Key Facts
• 14.1m dwellings
• Average House Price £2,120
Average House Price £2,120
• Home Ownership 32%
• Private rental sector 50%
• 1950s house building boom
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What a difference a Jubilee makes?
2012 Key Facts
• 27.3m dwellings
• Average house price
£163,370
• Home ownership 66%
• Private rental sector 17%
• Lowest number of new
homes built since 1923
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And in another 20 years?
2025 Future Trends?
• Ownership 60% and falling
• 1.9m less owners
• Private rental 20% and rising
Private rental 20% and rising
• Ageing population
• Increased personal debt
• Restricted access to credit
• Greater mobility required to
secure work
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3. Stakeholder Needs
Public Sector needs to Private Sector needs to
Citizen needs to
How do we remain relevant?
Vision
• Smaller organisations
• Digital by default
• Less bureaucratic ‐ more agile
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• Different skills
• Working closely with the private sector
• Wider range of property related data sets
• Comprehensive coverage
• Be relevant – owners, renters, developers,
infrastructure
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4. Vision
• Transparency of information
• Open up data
• Wider role in society / government
Wider role in society / government
• Inform policy – green agenda
• Increase compliance
• Collaboration
In summary…..
We need to see ourselves not
just as keepers of registers but as
organisations that enable the
release of economic value in
land and property.
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