Land Registry & ownership
How do I get Land Registry data?
It depends what you need.
Sold prices. HM Land Registry publishes Price Paid Data as a free monthly download for England and Wales. To use it for a particular property, you first have to match its addresses to your own. Homedata has already done that matching: send a UPRN to the sales endpoint (5 tokens) and get that property’s confirmed sales, with date and price.
Title information. The title register is sold per document through HM Land Registry’s Find a Property service. Homedata’s title endpoint (10 tokens) returns the tenure and title number for a UPRN. Where the owner is a UK or overseas company, it also returns the owner, from HM Land Registry’s company registers. Land Registry doesn’t publish owner names for homes held by private individuals, so neither do we.
Scotland’s equivalent records are held by Registers of Scotland.
What this means in practice
An estate agent valuing 17 Acacia Road, Camden NW1 needs five comparables sold within twelve months and within 0.5 miles. Price Paid Data gives raw transactions but no property characteristics: it cannot tell which sales were three-bed terraces matching the subject. Joining Price Paid to EPC (for floor area, beds, type) and AddressBase (for postcode-precise distance) is the pipeline every comparables tool runs. Doing it yourself means downloading three files monthly, running geospatial joins on UPRN and TOID, and maintaining the lookup. Most agency CRMs subscribe to a feed instead at £20–£100/month.
Related questions
How fresh is Land Registry sold-price data?
Two-tier. The monthly Price Paid Data release is the comprehensive set, lagged 4–8 weeks behind completion. Land Registry also publishes a daily transaction feed showing applications received, but these are pre-registration and many drop out before completion. For genuine sold prices, expect a six-week lag from completion to public availability. Listings portals show "sold STC" or "completed" sooner because they receive a feed direct from the conveyancer, but those are not registered transactions until Land Registry processes the AP1 application.
Where do I get Northern Ireland property data?
Northern Ireland sits outside HM Land Registry. Land registration is run by Land and Property Services (LPS), part of the Department of Finance. Sold prices are not published as open data: LPS sells access through commercial licences. The free public-facing route is the Residential Property Price Index (quarterly aggregate). For per-property historical sales, NI property data providers (PropertyPal data services, BTW Cairns) license LPS data for resale.
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