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New Data: U.K. subnational - Land Registry HPI
Thursday, 20 Apr 2017 18:27 ET
By Daniel Luckenbach
Summary
February 2017 -- The U.K. Land Registry department has released a detailed house price index that aggregates data from Land Registry, Registers of Scotland, and Land and Property Services Northern Ireland and is calculated by the Office of National Statistics (9,885 new monthly and 48 new quarterly series, from 1995).
Detail

Dataset attributes are as follows; not all combinations exist.

  • Measurements: volume of sales (#), average price (GBP), price index (2015=100)
  • Adjustment: seasonally adjusted (SA) or not (NSA)
  • Breakdowns: age (new or existing), type of structure (detached, semi-detached, terraced, flat), type of sale (cash or mortgage), type of buyer (first-time or former owner-occupier)
  • Geo coverage: Country, 17 regions, 423 counties and county-equivalents
  • Start dates: January 1995 (England and Wales), January 2004 (Scotland), 2005Q1 (Northern Ireland)

The series reside in the historical catalog (United Kingdom » Real Estate » Residential » Prices » Land Registry House Price Index) and include, for example:

  • HPLTRUM.IGBR              = House Price: New and existing - Residential - Average price, (GBP, NSA) - for U.K.
  • HPLTRAM.IGBR_YOHU         = House Price: New and existing - Residential - Average price, (GBP, SA) - for Yorkshire and the Humber
  • HPINRUM.IGBR_WALS         = House Price Index: New - Residential, (Jan2015=100, NSA) - for Wales
  • HPITRROWUM.IGBR           = House Price Index: New and existing - Residential - Terraced housing, (Jan2015=100, NSA)
  • HPITRFTBUM.IGBR_E06000001 = House Price Index: New and existing - Residential - First-time buyer, (Jan2015=100) - for Hartlepool
  • HPLTRDTSUM.IGBR_E07000047 = House Price: New and existing - Residential - Semi-detached houses - Average price, (GBP, NSA) - for West Devon
  • HPQTRUM.IGBR_E07000047    = Volume of sales, (#, NSA)
  • HPITRUQ.IGBR_NOIR         = House Price Index, (2015Q1=100, NSA) - for Northern Ireland

Because catalog locations are subject to change, the upper-right search box on DataBuffet.com provides a "find in catalog" mode that accepts a mnemonic.

References

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Related ReleaseUK House Price Index
SourceLand Registry - U.K.
FrequencyMonthly
GeographyUnited Kingdom
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