To ask the question, is to answer it. We are quite extremely fortunate in this country to have a very trustworthy independent Judiciary and Polices Forces, that are civilian in nature, very reluctant to use violence and steeped in the principles of Sir … Continue reading →

As always, the latest month is incomplete – they usually take a few months to all come through. That’s why we always refresh the whole property price dataset from the beginning of the year when we update, not just the … Continue reading →

We’re also adding new postcodes and have some new features coming, will keep you posted.

And going all the way back to January 1995. A gentle reminder too that in England and Wales, you type in your postcode to the searchbox and you can see a percentile ranking for your area in terms of how … Continue reading →

We actually had this done a couple of days ago but this is just to let you all know.

Understanding how one area in crime and property pricing compares to another only takes you so far. For a decent overview, you need to understand where that crime level and those property prices compare at a national level. We now … Continue reading →

I’ve always found postcodes a bit vague and have preferred shapes like lower layer super output areas. The thing is, no one thinks in terms of the latter, especially those who should like the insurance industry, so we have just … Continue reading →

You can see by the way the effect that the budget had on the last minute increase in property transactions to avoid stamp duty in March 2016 – the highest volume of transactions since November 2007 at 104,000 across England … Continue reading →

Just enter a postcode into the searchbox and click on the link to Property Sales. We have all transactions dating back to January 1995 and update every month, just as with crime.

Here at UKCrimeStats we spend a lot of time working on postcodes. Every few months, new postcodes are created, others are decommissioned and we then go away and do the radius calculations and all the matchings to different areas and … Continue reading →