Property research desk
Some notes on housing-market research, methodology updates, and source notes, built to show how the signals are interpreted and where the numbers come from. Best case, you find it interesting, worst, you killed some time whilst the kettle boils.
August 28, 2026
HM Land Registry has added UPRNs to Price Paid Data, making property-level data matching far easier. But with no historical backfill planned, millions of property transactions remain without identifiers.
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June 1, 2026
The latest Land Registry update for April 2026 is now live. Apologies for the delay and the site collapsing after the update!
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May 31, 2026
The Property Stress Indicators Dashboard has been updated to make it more accurate after each update due to the changes being made to various data files.
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May 30, 2026
EPC updates were available today, then I realised they have changed the service and the data, so some good, some not so good updates today
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April 11, 2026
Scottish House Price data has been added to the site. There is limited open data available, but what I have does provide a reasonable level of insight into the Scottish Market.
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March 28, 2026
To provide a more detailed view of specific properties when searching I have added a new crime panel to provide insight into crime levels.
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