Property market data

This section collects the data pages we maintain on the UK property market. The population pages for London, Birmingham and Manchester follow how each city has grown and what that growth means for housing demand, drawing on official census data. The empty homes page gathers the national statistics on long-term empty properties, including a historical series that runs back over a decade.

Alongside the city pages there is a rundown of the fastest growing cities in the UK, a guide to the property data sources used across this site and a tools page covering the research services investors lean on when weighing up an area. The figures come from official releases such as the Office for National Statistics and government housing statistics, and each page names the sources behind its numbers.

If you are researching a specific town or city rather than the national picture, the location guides across the site carry the same discipline at local level, with asking prices, rents, yields and sold-price history tracked postcode by postcode and refreshed on a monthly cycle. Each guide states when its figures were last updated.