Prices and indices
Price Paid Data
HM Land Registry's record of every registered residential sale in England and Wales since 1995: price, date, address, type, tenure and whether it was a standard market sale.
Also called: HM Land Registry price paid, sold prices, PPD.
Definition
Price Paid Data, as the data uses it
Price Paid Data is the public record of what properties actually sold for. It is published monthly under the Open Government Licence and covers England and Wales from 1995. Each row carries the price, the completion date, the address, the property type, the tenure, whether the property was new, and a category: A for a standard sale, B for a transfer under a power of sale, a right-to-buy or a sale at less than market value.
MarketCode loads the monthly change file as additions, changes and deletions, so a corrected registration updates the row. Sales are matched to UPRNs where the address allows and kept for area statistics where it does not. Medians and indices use category A only; a median that includes repossessions is not a market median.
The one thing to know before reading a recent month: registration lags completion by weeks to months, so the trailing months are incomplete and will rise. Every volume series says where the provisional period starts.
Tools
Tools that return it
Registered sales for a property
transactions_by_uprn()All HMLR Price Paid records joined to this UPRN, newest first.
Sold-price history
property_history()Sold-price history for a property, with per-sale detail.
Monthly transaction volume
market_volume_series()Monthly transaction VOLUME for a postcode district, postcode area or
House price index series
market_index_series()The published house-price INDEX for one postcode district or local authority: the level per month (base period = 100), the forecast tail flagged, and provenance saying how the index was built.
See also
Related terms
- Registration lag: The weeks to months between a sale completing and HM Land Registry registering it, which makes the most recent months of any sold-price series incomplete.
- Repeat-sales index: A price index built from pairs of sales of the same property, so it measures price change without being pulled by which properties happened to sell; the method behind MarketCode's sold-price and commercial capital indices.
- Tenure (freehold and leasehold): How a property is held: freehold outright, or leasehold for a fixed term under a lease from the freeholder; recorded on every registered sale and every title.
FAQ
Questions about price paid data
What does Price Paid Data mean?
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HM Land Registry's record of every registered residential sale in England and Wales since 1995: price, date, address, type, tenure and whether it was a standard market sale.
Which MarketCode tools return price paid data?
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Registered sales for a property, Sold-price history, Monthly transaction volume, House price index series. Each runs as an MCP tool in Claude, ChatGPT, Codex and Cursor and as a REST endpoint with an API key, at the same price.
Is sold prices the same thing?
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Yes. HM Land Registry price paid, sold prices, PPD are other names for what this entry defines; MarketCode uses "Price Paid Data" in its tool descriptions and responses.
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