Dwelling Ages and Prices data provide Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) level datasets related to residential property dwelling age periods, housing transactions, and median house prices. Data has been provided by the Valuation Office Agency (VOA) and the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

Data for median house prices has been aggregated to quarters from 1995-2018, and only the first annual quarter of 2020 and 2021. Dwelling Age Band Counts have been grouped into 10-year age bands from 1995 to 2015, and as a separate dataset has been represented as the modal, median, and RGB composite of age bands for houses built post-1945, post-2016 and up to 2021. Housing transaction counts are presented as quarterly aggregates from 1995-2018.

Content

The data is available for download below. For detailed descriptions of the columns contained within the data, see the Variable Dictionary; and for an overview of the characteristics of the data, see the Data Summary. These files can also be downloaded from the bottom of this page.

Quality, Representation and Bias

The quality and representation is of high quality as is provided by official statistical agencies. However it should be noted that the accuracy of the age band decreases with older buildings, due variations in quality of historic record collecting. Price information is as entered into the Land Registry and similar. Sometimes, this information is recorded incorrectly, such as shared ownership properties being incorrectly entered as regular private sale with the price paid for a proportion of the property incorrectly showing as the full property value. Such errors are normally picked up with later updates of the Land Registry (and so updates to the HPSSA (House Prices for Small Statistical Areas) dataset) but these updates may not be reflected with the static copies hosted here.