Nestoria Property Data

Data downloaded from the Nestoria property listings aggregation service for Glasgow and Paisley for one year from March 2015. The data covers both sales and rental properties advertised and was collected daily from Nestoria. The data includes the summary description of the property, advertised price, number of bedrooms and bathrooms, updates, i...

Registers of Scotland Data

This is the official register of land and property in Scotland, which records all sale and long lease transactions and provides details of property ownership since 1 April 2003. The data is separated into two file names: master and address. There are more records in the address tables than there are in the master tables because some sales corre...

Zoopla Property Data

Zoopla is one of the UK's leading aggregators of property listings data, giving free access to information on 27,000,000 homes, up to 1,000,000 property listings and 15 years of sold prices data. UBDC’s Data Service is licensed by Zoopla to 1) provide access to original or resulting data (including historical data) to registered non-commercial...

Other Housing Data

We are exploring a variety of other sources of housing data. In Scotland, the statutory landlord registration scheme for the private rented sector offers great potential although data have not been routinely published. This is a missed opportunity as this blog argues. We have secured data for exploratory research through a data sharing agreemen...