Improving house price information transparency
The housing market affects everyone in some way, so it is no surprise that house price data is so keenly monitored. We register the ownership of all land and property in England and Wales and our...
View ArticleGuest blog by Manuel Timita, Illustreets.co.uk – great use of Land Registry data
Here at Land Registry we are always keen to support great use of our data and Manuel Timita from Illustreets has created a fascinating application using house price data. This data is free for all and...
View ArticleWhat factors can lower a property’s value?
As the saying goes ‘One man’s trash is another man’s treasure’ or, in the case of properties, one person’s ‘des res’ is another’s dump. While we might have different opinions about whether having a...
View ArticleDeveloping a new House Price Index
The four producers of official house price statistics (Land Registry, Office for National Statistics (ONS), Registers of Scotland and Land & Property Services Northern Ireland) announced in...
View ArticleConsultation – developing a UK House Price Index
In September we issued an update on our work to create a single definitive UK House Price Index with the other producers of official house price statistics,...
View ArticlePrice Paid Data – Improving data quality
While we strive to release data of the highest quality we know sometimes that we could do better. This month we are improving our Price Paid Dataset by removing historic transactions that were added in...
View ArticleHelping out with Operation Rogue Trader
I recently spent an interesting two days working with officers from Blackpool South Police station as part of Operation Rogue Trader. The purpose of the week is to identify and arrest rogue traders...
View ArticleThe new UK House Price Index will be published in June
In October last year, I joined the working group responsible for the production of the new single official UK House Price Index (UK HPI). As I was covering maternity leave for our product owner and...
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