Land Registry
How do I get Land Registry data?
For sold-price history across England and Wales, download Price Paid Data direct from HM Land Registry. It's free under the Open Government Licence, refreshed monthly, and covers every transaction since 1995. Scotland publishes equivalent data through Registers of Scotland.
For an individual property's title register, ownership names, charges and lease terms, buy the title via the Find a Property service at £3 per document. High-volume conveyancers use the Business Gateway. Polygon boundaries are available through INSPIRE Index Polygons and the National Polygon Service (paid).
For most product use cases — valuations, comparables, lender risk models, address enrichment — a third-party API is faster than building the pipeline yourself. Homedata resolves Price Paid records to UPRN and joins them to EPC, ownership and characteristic data in a single call.
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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