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.
November 16, 2025
I have built a new support system for users to ask questions, report bugs or request features. Please use this instead of email.
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November 16, 2025
Today was the day to fix some bugs. Thank you to everyone who has made suggestions to improve the site; many of those are now implemented.
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November 14, 2025
Learn how the UK Property Market Economic Indicators Dashboard analyses interest rates, inflation, wage growth, unemployment, mortgage approvals, repossessions and house prices to create a data-driven stress index based on quarterly trends.
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November 3, 2025
I am off on holiday for a couple of weeks to do some running and climb some mountains in Gran Canaria, back soon!
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November 1, 2025
Learn how UK deprivation data works, where it comes from, how it links to postcodes, and why Northern Ireland has no open postcode lookup.
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October 31, 2025
England’s new 2025 Deprivation Index (IoD25) updates the 2019 dataset with 2021 boundaries, refreshed data, and new national rankings across 33,755 LSOAs.
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