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A guest post by Quention Hanley: Roughly two years ago, we pointed out a key feature of crime: its tendency to accelerate as population density increases. This type of behaviour has been observed many times in many parts of the … Continue reading
So we have been querying the Land Registry price paid data using our – where can I afford to live? – app and here is a listing going on sales price of where the cheapest postcode districts have been in … Continue reading
So I’m quite excited to tell you about some improvements we have made to the free to use app – where can I afford to live? – which is here. You can now specify not only the area type (e.g. … Continue reading
As always, property transactions take a little while to filter through on the Land Registry, so we expect the number of listed transactions at 30,867 for September to double. As a rule, we refresh every month since the beginning of … Continue reading
I was recently quite inspired by the story of a religious community – Orthodox Jews – and their quest to find affordable housing in the UK, moving from North London to Canvey Island where big homes for larger families are affordable. You … Continue reading
We’re always adding features to UKCrimeStats – here’s another one. I would immodestly suggest that for individual postcodes, this is one of the best sources of data there is. So with a random generated postcode, here is an example of … Continue reading
We have just updated the latest price paid data from the Land Registry and matched it to every shape so you can run reports and compare areas and prices over different time periods as well as geolocate specific properties. One … Continue reading
This took us a while longer to sort out. There is an interesting new category in the property price data which dates back to 1999 – it is called “other”. What it actually pertains to is commercial property or at … Continue reading
As always, a word of caution, the last month’s sales – property prices paid in England and Wales – are typically at least 50% missing – see here http://ukcrimestats.com/PropertySales/NationalPicture#Totals – so we would fully expect when we have the next month’s … Continue reading