HM Land Registry portal: get notifications about your documents
How Business e-services customers can set up portal notifications by email, RSS feed or both.
Applies to England and Wales
Manage notifications using email
By activating email notifications you will automatically receive updates from HM Land Registry when your documents are sent to the portal.
The notification will be sent to the email address associated with your account.
Alternatively, you can nominate another portal user in your business unit to receive the notification. To do this, select 鈥榤anage鈥� for an activated email notification, then choose the recipient from the drop down menu.
You can activate email notifications for the 鈥楳y Downloads鈥� area and the 鈥楶ostal Application Downloads鈥� area. If you wish to update the email associated with the user account then your business unit administrator can update your account.

Manage notifications using our RSS feed
By setting up notifications, or RSS feed, you will automatically receive updates from HM Land Registry when your documents are sent to the portal.
Set up an RSS feed (RSS means Real Simple Syndication) to deliver a message to your web browser or Microsoft Office by following a few simple steps.
Select 鈥楪eneral facilities鈥�, then 鈥楴otifications鈥�.
To activate the service on your account select 鈥楢ctivate鈥�. The RSS Feed is now activated on your account.

Choose how to view the notification feed
To choose how you view your RSS feed select 鈥榁iew the feed鈥�. This will open up a new tab in your Internet browser.
RSS feeds can be read using Internet Explorer or Microsoft Outlook. Other browsers and email clients may not be compatible. All browsers do not support RSS feeds and the customer should consult their IT support if RSS is not compatible with their browser.

Set up the feed in Internet Explorer
- To setup an RSS feed through your Internet browser select 鈥楽ubscribe to this feed鈥� and this will open a dialogue box.
- Select the field 鈥楴ame鈥� to insert a name of your choice, which will appear as the title for your 鈥楩eed list鈥�.
- Select the 鈥楥reate in鈥� drop down menu to choose where you would like the RSS Feed to appear on your Internet browser.
- Select 鈥楽ubscribe鈥�. A screen will appear telling you that you鈥檝e successfully subscribed to this feed. You will now receive messages from HM Land Registry alerting you when your ordered documents are in the portal.

Set up Microsoft Outlook
To use Outlook to subscribe to RSS Feeds highlight the URL at the top of the 鈥榊ou鈥檝e successfully subscribed to this feed鈥� page, then Press CTRL+C to copy.

- Open Microsoft Outlook, then select the 鈥楩ile鈥� tab.
- Select 鈥楢ccount Settings鈥�, then 鈥楢ccount Settings鈥� from the drop down menu.

- Select the 鈥楻SS Feeds鈥� tab.
- Select 鈥楴ew鈥�.
- In the 鈥楴ew RSS Feed鈥� dialog box, type the URL or press CTRL+V to paste the URL of the RSS Feed.
- Select 鈥楢dd鈥�.

- Check the file name.
- Select 鈥極K鈥�.

You can now read your RSS feeds by selecting RSS Feeds in the Mail folders.

Please be aware that HM Land Registry is not responsible for the security of external feed readers and does not provide helpdesk support.
Logout
When you have completed your tasks, select 鈥楲ogout鈥� at the top of the screen to exit the system securely.