Land Registry data for August 2020

The latest property data for England and Wales is now on my website. The number of sales has certainly fallen over the last few months, even though I’ve been hearing of a property boom. And I’m not seeing much evidence of prices rising much either

Land Registry data for July 2020

The latest house price data from the Land Registry is now on my website. Sales are still way down but it’s too early to see what affect the Stamp Duty holiday has had, I’d imagine sales will be up over the coming months

UK postcode data for August 2020

I’ve uploaded the latest postcode data from the ONS to my website. I’ve run my usual sanity checks and it all looks OK, but do let me know if you spot any anomalies

House price data June 2020

I’ve uploaded the Land Registry data for June 2020 to my website. I reported a couple of months ago that there had been 7 sales in April. This has now been revised up to over 20,000 sales. Whilst not as terrible as the initial figures suggested, that’s still much lower activity than we’ve been seeing over the last few years. And although there’s been a marked drop in the prices paid, those prices haven’t affected the annual averages yet.

Property sales May 2020

I’ve uploaded the latest Land Registry property data to my site. There’s a continued lack of sales being completed, although last month’s figures have been revised upwards from 7 to 279 sales. That is still dramatically lower than the usual number of sales

If you’re wondering why the current average sale price has dropped significantly but the annual change in price has increased, this is due to the tiny number of sales happening, the sales dropping out of the other end are making a much bigger difference to the stats.

UK postcode data for May 2020

The ONS have published their latest postcode data which is now uploaded to my site. As ever, I’ve run some sanity checks (codes for administrative areas have changed yet again!) and everything looks to be correct. Let me know if you see anything amiss

(lack of) property sales April 2020

What happens to property sales in the middle of a pandemic? Perhaps unsurprisingly they fall off a cliff. According to the Land Registry, there were 7 sales in England and Wales in April, although that will probably go up a little as the data comes in for future months. With such a small number of sales, the price statistics are fairly meaningless