reachusama0/uk-housing-data

UK Housing Dataset

Dataset Details

Dataset Description

The UK Housing Dataset combines two official UK Government open data sources:

• Price Paid Data (PPD): Residential property sales recorded by HM Land Registry from the start of digital records up to June 2025.
• Energy Performance Certificates (EPC): Property energy efficiency records from the UK Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC).

Both datasets were obtained in CSV/Text formats from official government portals and converted to Parquet format with Hive partitioning to optimize storage, search, and large-scale analysis.

• PPD Partitioning Strategy: sale_year=?/sale_month=?/outcode2=?

• EPC Partitioning Strategy: outcode2=?/lodgement_year=?

• Curated by: Usama Shahid (LinkedIn) and open data from UK Government sources

• Funded by: N/A (public data)

• Shared by: Usama Shahid

• Language(s): English

• License: Open Government Licence v3.0 (OGL)

Dataset Sources

• PPD Repository: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data
• EPC Repository: EPC Open Data

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Uses

Direct Use

The dataset is suitable for:

• Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA): Understanding housing markets and property-level energy efficiency.
• Machine Learning: Price prediction models, EPC rating prediction, regression and classification tasks.
• Policy Research: Assessing housing affordability and environmental performance.
• Urban Studies & Geography: Linking transaction patterns with regional housing or sustainability trends.

Out-of-Scope Use

• Identifying or profiling individuals.
• Commercial resale of the dataset without respecting OGL terms.
• Using property-level information in ways that could compromise privacy.

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Dataset Structure

Price Paid Data (PPD)

Schema (selected fields):

• Transaction ID, Price, Date of Transfer, Postcode, Property Type, Old/New, Duration, Address fields (PAON, SAON, Street, Locality, Town/City, District, County), PPD Category Type, Record Status, derived postcode fields (Outward, Sector, Postcode Sector, outcode2), temporal fields (sale_month, sale_year).

Energy Performance Certificates (EPC)

Schema (selected fields):

• Identifiers: LMK_KEY, BUILDING_REFERENCE_NUMBER, UPRN
• Address fields: ADDRESS1–3, POSTCODE, POSTTOWN, LOCAL_AUTHORITY, COUNTY
• Energy ratings: Current & Potential Energy Rating, Efficiency scores, Environmental Impact metrics
• Cost & Emissions: Heating/Lighting/Hot Water costs, CO₂ emissions, Energy consumption
• Property details: PROPERTY_TYPE, BUILT_FORM, FLOOR_AREA, GLAZING, ROOF/WALL/FLOOR characteristics
• Administrative fields: Lodgement Date, Inspection Date, Transaction Type, Tenure, Construction Age Band, Report Type, derived fields (outcode, outcode2, lodgement_year).

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Dataset Creation

Curation Rationale

The dataset was curated to provide a unified, analysis-ready view of UK housing transactions and property energy characteristics. Hive partitioning allows efficient access to subsets of the data for large-scale ML and research applications.

Source Data

• Data Collection: Directly downloaded from official UK Government open data portals.
• Processing: Converted from CSV/Text to Parquet. Partitioned using Hive strategies for scale and efficiency.
• Producers: HM Land Registry (PPD) and UK Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (EPC).

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Annotations

No additional human annotations were added. Data fields are as published by the source agencies.

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Personal and Sensitive Information

Both PPD and EPC datasets include property-level addresses, postcodes, and transaction values. While this is public domain data under OGL, it may still be considered sensitive as it enables linking to individual properties. Users should handle responsibly and avoid misuse for profiling or deanonymization.

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Bias, Risks, and Limitations

• Coverage bias: EPC data does not cover all UK homes (mainly properties sold, rented, or newly built).
• Temporal bias: PPD covers only recorded residential property transactions (excludes informal transfers).
• Privacy risk: Although public, addresses can be linked with individuals.
• Geographic variation: Regional inconsistencies may exist in EPC assessments.

Recommendations

• Use aggregated or anonymized subsets for public reporting.
• Avoid drawing demographic or individual-level conclusions.
• Pair with external socio-economic datasets carefully to prevent misuse.

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Citation

BibTeX:

@misc{uk_housing_dataset,
  title        = {UK Housing Dataset: Price Paid Data and Energy Performance Certificates},
  author       = {Usama Shahid},
  year         = {2025},
  url          = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/reachusama0/uk-housing-data},
  note         = {Data under the Open Government Licence v3.0}
}

APA: Shahid, U., HM Land Registry, & DLUHC. (2025). UK Housing Dataset: Price Paid Data and Energy Performance Certificates. Hugging Face. Available under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

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Dataset Card Authors

• Usama Shahid

Dataset Card Contact

• LinkedIn: Usama Shahid