Friday, June 05, 2020

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

Tuesday, June 02, 2020

(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