Data source
VOA, Rent Service Scotland and Rent Officers Wales: Local Housing Allowance rates by Broad Rental Market Area
The weekly LHA rate for each bedroom category in each Broad Rental Market Area, and the shared accommodation rate.
- Licence:
- Open Government Licence v3
- Coverage:
- Great Britain
- Tools:
- 1
Role
What VOA, Rent Service Scotland and Rent Officers Wales data lets a tool answer
What the state will pay for a property. It is the effective rent floor for a benefit-funded tenancy and the one figure nothing else in the platform provides.
Terms
Licence, attribution and refresh
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0
- Refresh
- Annually, each April.
- Coverage
- Great Britain
This page describes how MarketCode uses the data. It is not legal advice on how you may reuse what a tool returns; the tool pages say when a response carries licensed records.
Tools
Tools that read VOA, Rent Service Scotland and Rent Officers Wales records
Local Housing Allowance rate
lha_rate()Local Housing Allowance for a postcode and bedroom category — the ceiling on housing benefit, and therefore the effective rent floor for a benefit-funded tenancy. Nothing else in this API tells you what the state will pay for a property.
FAQ
Questions about VOA, Rent Service Scotland and Rent Officers Wales data
What VOA, Rent Service Scotland and Rent Officers Wales data does MarketCode use?
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The weekly LHA rate for each bedroom category in each Broad Rental Market Area, and the shared accommodation rate. What the state will pay for a property. It is the effective rent floor for a benefit-funded tenancy and the one figure nothing else in the platform provides.
Which tools read this dataset?
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1 tools: Local Housing Allowance rate. Each is available as an MCP tool and a REST endpoint at the same price.
Under what licence?
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Open Government Licence v3.0 This page describes how we use the data; it is not legal advice on how you may.
How often is it refreshed, and what does it cover?
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Annually, each April. Coverage: Great Britain.
Is there a LHA rate lookup?
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Yes, in effect: the MarketCode tools that read VOA, Rent Service Scotland and Rent Officers Wales are the LHA rate lookup most people are looking for, reachable over REST with an API key or over MCP from Claude, ChatGPT, Codex and Cursor with a sign-in.
See VOA, Rent Service Scotland and Rent Officers Wales data answer a real address.
Thirty minutes, your property or area, every figure traced to its source.