Price Paid Data covers residential sales in England and Wales lodged for registration since January 1995 — but it deliberately leaves out whole categories of transfer. If you treat it as "every sale", you will draw the wrong conclusion from a quiet street.
Excluded from Price Paid Data
| Excluded | Why it matters to you |
|---|---|
| Sales not lodged with HM Land Registry | Unregistered land simply never appears |
| Sales not for value, gifts, transfers between parties (e.g. divorce) | A "£0" or absent transfer is not a market price |
| Right to buy sales at a discount | Would understate the market if included |
| Compulsory purchase orders and court orders | Not arm's-length prices |
| Transfers to trustees, vesting deeds over multiple properties | No single property price exists to publish |
| Additional-price transactions under £100 or over £99,999,999 | Bounds on what the dataset records |
What people wrongly assume is excluded, but is not: buy-to-lets and repossessions ARE in the data. They sit in Category B ("Additional Price Paid") alongside transfers under power of sale and transfers to non-private individuals. Category A ("Standard Price Paid") is a single residential property sold for value — the ordinary open-market sale most comparisons should lean on.
The data is released monthly under the Open Government Licence, with amendments applied to the published files. So a figure you saw last month can legitimately change.
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Last reviewed: 2026-09-20. We check these against the linked official sources and re-date the page when they change.