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If you're a fan of British train stations (and who isn't?) then you'll be excited to learn I've uploaded the latest station usage data to the site. Liverpool Street in London retains its position as the busiest station, thanks to the extra traffic from the Elizabeth line. Overall usage still hasn't quite reached pre-Covid levels, presumably due to WFH becoming a bigger part of people's lives.

In other news, I'm on Bluesky, since it looks like it may remain a sane place dues to its ownership model. Follow me there if you want to read the same things you can read here

The latest house price data has landed and has been uploaded to the site. Little has changed, prices continue to fall, sales volumes are still low. 

I've nearly finished uploading the latest house price data for England and Wales to the website. Prices continue to fall and sales volumes still look very low. The falls are affecting pretty much all areas, but a special shoutout to my hometown, what is happening in Blackburn?

I've started to include road names in the UK postcode CSV downloads. Let me know if you spot any problems or if you want them included in any other downloads

I've uploaded the latest ONS postcode data to the site. There have been some changes to the data provided. Built up areas have been updated to the latest 2022 areas and built up area sub-divisions no longer exist. Constituency boundaries are now from the 2024 election. This means the layout of the CSV files has changed and there will be more changes as I clean up any other references to the old data.

As usual, let me know if you see any problems

I'm in the process of uploading the latest Land Registry data to the site. Prices continue to fall although it appears the rate of falls has reached a plateau. Sales volumes still seem anaemic. I'm guessing the recent interest rate reduction will start to have an impact in the months ahead

I've updated the Multiple Postcodes page so you can now use it to get a list of all the streets that are covered by the selected postcode areas. You can grab the data as CSV or KML. Any suggestions or problems, let me know

I'm currently importing the latest house price data from the Land Registry to the website. Prices seem to be flat-lining although the annual change is still negative. Sales volumes are still low with no sign of turning round. I guess lower interest rates may start having an effect in the coming months.

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