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I'm currently uploading the latest data from the Land Registry to the website. Prices continue to fall on the annual measure although it looks like they may be starting to move back to positive territory. There seems to be no end in site to the fall in the number of sales.

There have been a number of minor tweaks on the site recently that may be of interest.

• I've made some changes to how the link between UPRN and road name is calculated, which hopefully produces more accurate results
• I've added a Property Type field to postcode downloads, that contains the most common type of property in the postcode. This field is populated based on property sales so it may not be entirely accurate
• the segment explorer lets you filter segments by the speed of the KOM/QOM
• The JSON version of the GetPostcode API now includes a whole lot more data

I'm uploading the latest Land Registry data to the site. We've now had price falls for 6 months, although it looks like the falls may have slowed or stopped. The number of sales continues to look grim. The lowest annual sales ever was in the year to June 2009 and it looks like we may go below that, although it is difficult to know for certain since it can take quite some time for all the data to get to the Land Registry

I've uploaded the latest ONS postcode data to the site. I've run my usual sanity checks and everything appears OK but let me know if you spot anything weird.

To celebrate the upcoming election and because I've had a few requests for them, I've added data for new constituencies to the site. The pages are a little sparse at the moment but if all you require is CSV data for a constituency, you should be good to go.

I've uploaded the latest house sales data from the Land Registry to the website. Prices continue to fall although it looks like maybe the pace is beginning to slow. Sales volumes continue to fall with no sign of bottoming out.

On a regional level, prices have fallen pretty much everywhere.

I got a question the other day about the electoral constituency data, specifically if I had the data for the new constituencies that will come into existence at the next General Election. The data on the site is from the ONS Postcode directory which is for the current constituencies. It seems the ONS update this kind of boundary data when it becomes active, i.e after an election, so I can't currently provide it from that source. But the ONS have recently released the data separately. If the postcode data for one of these new constituencies would be useful to you, let me know and I can produce a list of the postcodes for you. I'm unlikely to do it for all constituencies unless there's a big demand

I'm in the process of importing the latest house price data to the website. House prices are continuing to fall and sales continue to look on the low side. I guess this will continue until interest rates start to fall

I've uploaded the latest house price data from the Land Registry to the website. Prices continue to slide. If they fall again next month, it will be the longest period of sustained falls since 2012. Sales are trickier to evaluate since it can take some time for all the data to come in but they still look on the low side.

I've imported the latest postcode data from the ONS to the website. I had some issues with parishes, the postcodes reference new parish codes but the parish name lookups still use the old codes, so I've had to manually fix up the data, which I may well have messed up. If you notice any issues with parishes or anywhere else in the postcode data, let me know

The website is churning through the latest data from the Land Registry and the top line numbers are now online. Sales volumes still look low and the the fall in prices continues. Maybe there'll be another Stamp Duty holiday to turn the numbers around in time for an election.

I've also recently updated the average income data by MSOA area. The data is released rather slowly by the ONS, so we are only now able to get it for 2020. Perhaps unsurprisingly, pretty much all the areas with the highest incomes are in London and the South East of England. I could highlight some of the areas at the top of the list, but the confidence intervals are so large I suspect this may not be that informative. If you want to see the original data, you can download it directly from the ONS.

I've updated the site to include details of another level of administrative area, county electoral divisions. For example - Cambridgeshire postcodes

You can grab the data as CSV, KML, GeoJSON and Shape files. Let me know if you hit any problems.

In unrelated news, I've adjusted the blog subscription so you can subscribe just for blog posts about website updates or for all updates, since I occasionally rant about random subjects that most subscribers probably aren't interested in. If you've signed up already, you will only receive notifications about website updates. If you want to sign up for everything, currently you'll need to unsubscribe and sign up again. If you haven't signed up and would like to, head over to the sign-up page