Methodology and sources

Every fee this calculator returns is a direct lookup from the published HM Land Registry fee tables. Nothing is interpolated, extrapolated or estimated. If a figure appears here that is not in the source table, it is a bug.

Source

All fees are transcribed from GOV.UK: HM Land Registry Registration Services fees, which sets out the Scale 1 and Scale 2 tables. These fees were set by the Land Registration Fee Order 2021, the first increase to Scale 1 and Scale 2 since 2009. They were last verified against that page on 2026-08-14.

How a fee is chosen

The calculator resolves four things in order.

1. Is it a rentcharge? If so the answer is a flat £40 and no scale applies. This check comes first because the scales explicitly exclude rentcharges.
2. Which scale? Scale 1 for first registrations and transfers for value. Scale 2 for transfers or assents of whole not for value, charges of whole, transfers of charges and similar.
3. Which value band? Bands are inclusive at both ends, so £80,000 sits in the first Scale 1 band and £80,001 in the second. Only Scale 1 has an open-ended top band.
4. Which column? Voluntary first registration takes its own reduced column and overrides the route. Otherwise, postal applications take the postal column, and portal applications take the reduced column only where the application affects the whole of a registered title. Leases and part-title applications take a column that the source table sets equal to the postal fee.

The part-title rule

This is the detail most fee estimates get wrong. The portal reduction is not a discount for using the portal. It is a discount for transfers or surrenders which affect the whole of a registered title and which are lodged through the portal or Business Gateway. The source table gives leases and part-title applications a separate column, and that column carries the same figures as the postal one. The calculator reflects this and warns you when it applies.

What the calculator refuses to do

• It will not invent a Scale 2 fee above £1,000,000. The published Scale 2 table stops there. Rather than borrow the Scale 1 top band or extend the last band upwards, the calculator returns no figure and tells you to contact HM Land Registry. A test in the codebase asserts specifically that it does not return the Scale 1 figure in that case.
• It does not apply voluntary first registration to Scale 2, which has no such column.
• It does not cover fixed fee or large scale applications, which the guidance lists separately.
• It does not check whether a fee reduction applies to you. The guidance lists reductions under both scales that depend on the nature of the application.
• It covers England and Wales only. Registers of Scotland and the Land Registry of Northern Ireland are separate bodies with their own fee structures.

Testing

The fee tables are covered by unit tests that assert the correct fee at every band boundary on both scales, in every column. Expected values were transcribed from the GOV.UK table by hand rather than generated from the code, so a transcription error in the tables would fail the tests rather than be confirmed by them. There is also an invariant test that no portal whole-title fee in any band exceeds its own postal fee, which would catch a column being swapped.

Review schedule

Registration fees change only when a new Fee Order is laid before Parliament, which is infrequent: the 2021 Order was the first change since 2009. This site is checked against the GOV.UK fee page quarterly and whenever a new Fee Order is announced.

Corrections

If a fee here is wrong, it should be fixed rather than debated. Report it via the about page with the GOV.UK figure that contradicts it.