Land Registry Price Paid Data: the public record behind every figure here
The most consequential open dataset in British property is a CSV file. HM Land Registry’s Price Paid Data records essentially every home sold in England & Wales since 1995, what it went for, when, at which address, what type of property, freehold or leasehold, newly built or not, and publishes the lot, free, updated monthly. Every figure on this site starts there: 599,244 registered sales in the 12 months to June 2026 alone. If you have ever looked up what the neighbours paid, you have used it.
What each record contains
One row per registered transaction: the price actually paid (not the asking price, not an estimate), the completion date, the full address, the property type (detached, semi-detached, terraced, flat/maisonette), the tenure, and whether the sale was of a new build. That is the complete list, and the gaps define what any analysis built on it can honestly claim.
The three blind spots that matter
No floor area. Price Paid Data does not know how big anything is, which is why a price per square metre needs a second dataset: the floor area on each home’s Energy Performance Certificate, matched by address. That match succeeds for about 79% of recent sales, and carries the EPC’s own limitations, all of which are stated where they bite.
Registration lag. A sale appears in the data when the registration completes, 2 to 8 weeks after the sale itself, sometimes longer. The newest month is always incomplete, which is why recent quarters on every trend chart here are marked partial and excluded from growth calculations rather than being allowed to fake a crash.
Not quite everything. The standard file excludes some transactions: court orders, compulsory purchases, most transfers that are not open-market sales, and, of consequence for anyone studying the top end, sales of companies that own property rather than the property itself. Scotland and Northern Ireland keep their own registers entirely, which is why every coverage statement on this site says England & Wales and means it.
Using it yourself
The raw file is a single download from gov.uk, about five gigabytes for the full history, and it is genuinely usable with nothing more exotic than a database that reads CSV. If your question is “what did homes on this street sell for”, the Land Registry’s own search answers it in a browser. If your question involves floor areas, medians by area, or anything per square metre, that is the processing this site does monthly and publishes free: documented JSON and CSV endpoints for every district, the summary dataset with a ready-made citation, and every processing rule written down, including the ones that limit us.
Reading a sold price like an analyst
A single sold price answers less than it seems to: you know what one buyer paid, not whether it was a good price, a probate sale, or a house that needed a roof. Sold prices earn their keep in aggregate, a median over hundreds of them, a spread, a trend, which is why each district page here shows the individual sales and the statistics, and keeps the two visibly connected: every figure’s sample is listed below it.
The licence is the quiet superpower
Price Paid Data ships under the Open Government Licence v3.0: reuse it, republish it, build on it, sell what you build, provided you attribute Crown copyright. Everything this site derives from it carries the same licence, so the figures here are yours too, for a dissertation, a newsletter, an argument with an estate agent. The attribution line and a copy-ready citation live on the dataset page.
Start where the data is most legible: any district page shows the record for its own patch, sales, medians, spread and decade, in one place. Figures: June 2026 dataset, rebuilt monthly.
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