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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

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