Land Registry releases house price data going back years

The Land Registry has now made available all of its historic price paid data.

Covering over 18m sales in England and Wales going back almost 18 years, it is free to download.
 
The data, which is used to calculate the Land Registry’s monthly house price index, includes records of sales at full market value lodged for registration since January 1995.

The records include the full address of the property, the price paid, the date of the sale, the property type, whether it is a new build or not, and whether it is freehold or leasehold.

The data shows that the cheapest property ranged from £5,200 in 1995 to £8,000 in 2013 and the most expensive from £3.75m in 1995 to £29.35m in 2013.

The only ‘property type’ sales to have increased since 1995 are flats and maisonettes.

The Land Registry made available its first tranche of data in June, since when more than 114,000 files have been downloaded.
 
Eddie Davies, the Land Registry’s director of commercial & customer strategy, said:  “The release takes us one step nearer towards our vision of being a world leader of property data management and part of the open data landscape.
 
“The potential for use and reuse of this data is enormous and we hope that providing it in a number of different formats makes it more accessible and able to be shared more easily.”

While estate agents might know exactly what to do with Land Registry data, it could also help jobseekers and online shoppers.

The two winners have been announced in a competition launched to emphasise the potential economic uses of Land Registry information.

Website Adzuna, established two years ago, lists jobs, homes and cars. Its entry showed how people can make better-informed choices about where to live and work by showing them where they can maximise earnings and where they can maximise the cost of living.

The other winner is Dan Hilton, a software developer whose winning concept started with a snow shovel which never arrived.

His entry would enable e-commerce providers to prompt their customers to amend an out of date delivery address, saving the retailer the cost of misdirected post and returns.

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