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I've started to include road names in the UK postcode CSV downloads. Let me know if you spot any problems or if you want them included in any other downloads

I've uploaded the latest ONS postcode data to the site. There have been some changes to the data provided. Built up areas have been updated to the latest 2022 areas and built up area sub-divisions no longer exist. Constituency boundaries are now from the 2024 election. This means the layout of the CSV files has changed and there will be more changes as I clean up any other references to the old data.

As usual, let me know if you see any problems

I'm in the process of uploading the latest Land Registry data to the site. Prices continue to fall although it appears the rate of falls has reached a plateau. Sales volumes still seem anaemic. I'm guessing the recent interest rate reduction will start to have an impact in the months ahead

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