Press release: November 2018 Price Paid Data

In the dataset you can find the date of sale for each property, its full address and sale price, its category (residential or commercial) and type (detached, semi-detached, terraced, flat or maisonette and other), whether it is new build or not and whether it is freehold or leasehold.

The number of sales received for registration by property type and month

Property type	November 2018	October 2018	September 2018
Detached	23,931	25,066	22,902
Semi-detached	26,797	27,567	25,127
Terraced	26,758	28,352	25,333
Flat/maisonette	19,158	19,352	17,081
Other	6,059	6,553	5,912
Total	102,703	106,883	96,355

Of the 102,703 sales received for registration in November 2018:

• 77,369 were freehold, a 2% decrease on November 2017
• 14,866 were newly built, a 13.5% increase on November 2017

There is a time difference between the sale of a property and its registration at HM Land Registry.

Of the 102,703 sales received for registration, 31,721 took place in November 2018 of which:

• 567 were of residential properties in England and Wales for £1 million and over
• 336 were of residential properties in Greater London for £1 million and over
• 3 were of residential properties in West Midlands for more than £1 million
• 7 were of residential properties in Greater Manchester for more than £1 million
• 2 were of residential properties in Cardiff for more than £1 million

The most expensive residential sale taking place in November 2018 was of a terraced property in the City of Westminster for £38,822,000. The cheapest residential sale in November 2018 was of a terraced property in Burnley, Lancashire for £16,700.

The most expensive commercial sale taking place in November 2018 was in Birmingham for £47,500,000. The two cheapest commercial sales in November 2018 were in Merton, Greater London and Dartmouth, South Hampshire for £100.

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Notes to editors

1. Price Paid Data is published at 11am on the 20th working day of each month. The next dataset will be published on 29 January 2019.

2. Price Paid Data is property price data for all residential and commercial property sales in England and Wales that are lodged with HM Land Registry for registration in that month, subject to exclusions.

3. The amount of time between the sale of a property and the registration of this information with HM Land Registry varies. It typically ranges between two weeks and two months. Data for the two most recent months is therefore incomplete and does not give an indication of final monthly volumes. Occasionally the interval between sale and registration is longer than 2 months. The small number of sales affected cannot be updated for publication until the sales are lodged for registration.

4. Price Paid Data categories are either Category A (Standard entries) which includes single residential properties sold for full market value or Category B (Additional entries) for example sales to a company, buy-to-lets where they can be identified by a mortgage and repossessions.

5. HM Land Registry has been collecting information on Category A sales from January 1995 and on Category B sales from October 2013.

6. Price Paid Data can be downloaded in text, CSV format and in a machine readable format as linked data and is released under the Open Government Licence (OGL). Under the OGL, HM Land Registry permits the use of Price Paid Data for commercial or non-commercial purposes. However, the OGL does not cover the use of third party rights, which HM Land Registry is not authorised to license.

7. The Price Paid Data report builder allows users to build bespoke reports using the data. Reports can be based on location, estate type, price paid or property type over a defined period of time.

8. HM Land Registry’s mission is to guarantee and protect property rights in England and Wales.

9. HM Land Registry is a government department created in 1862. It operates as an executive agency and a trading fund and its running costs are covered by the fees paid by the users of its services. Its ambition is to become the world’s leading land registry for speed, simplicity and an open approach to data.

10. HM Land Registry safeguards land and property ownership worth in excess of £4 trillion, including around £1 trillion of mortgages. The Land Register contains more than 25 million titles showing evidence of ownership for some 86% of the land mass of England and Wales.

11. For further information about HM Land Registry visit www.gov.uk/land-registry.

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