Price Paid Data
Price Paid Data is HM Land Registry's public record of residential property sales in England and Wales, with the price, date and address of each sale.
Price Paid Data is the public record of property sales in England and Wales kept by HM Land Registry. Each row is one sale, with the price paid, the date it completed and the address.
It covers sales lodged for registration since January 1995. New sales are added once a month, and anyone can use the data under the Open Government Licence. Every figure on House Price Monitor comes from it.
What each record shows
The price comes from the transfer deed, the legal document that passes ownership to the buyer. The date is the date of completion, not the date the offer was accepted or the date the sale was registered.
Each record also gives the postcode, the property type (detached, semi-detached, terraced, flat or maisonette, or other), whether the home was newly built and whether it was sold as freehold or leasehold. Since October 2013 each sale has also had a category: standard or additional price paid data.
The record does not show bedrooms, floor area, condition or who bought the home. Our guide to what the Land Registry price data includes goes through every field.
What is left out
Only sales for value are recorded. Gifts, transfers between partners on divorce, transfers under a court order and right to buy sales at a discount do not appear. Nor do sales of homes in Scotland or Northern Ireland, which have their own land registers.
Some sales that do appear are not homes, such as plots of land or commercial buildings. House Price Monitor leaves out land, mixed-use and other non-residential sales, and transfers under £10,000, which record a nominal value rather than a sale.
When a sale appears
A sale only reaches the data once the buyer's conveyancer has applied to register it. That usually takes two to eight weeks after completion, and sometimes longer. HM Land Registry then publishes the new records in its next monthly release.
So the most recent month always has fewer sales than it will have later. Our guide on why sold prices take months to appear explains the timing, and how to find what a house sold for shows how to look up a single address.
How it is used
Price Paid Data is the main source for local sold prices. It feeds the House Price Index, and agents, surveyors and buyers use it to find comparables. The postcode and street pages on House Price Monitor turn it into a median price for each area, free to read on the postcodes page.
Monthly corrections
Each monthly release can also change or delete earlier records, for example where a sale was entered with the wrong price or address. A figure for a past month can therefore move slightly after it first appears.
| Published by | HM Land Registry |
| Covers | England and Wales |
| Records from | January 1995 |
| Updated | Monthly |
| Licence | Open Government Licence |
Related terms
Additional price paid data · Completion · Property type · Median price · House Price Index · Comparables