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ONS Postcode Directory (ONSPD)

Published by Office for National Statistics under the Open Government Licence v3.0

Maps a postcode to the local authority, statistical area, region and country it sits in — the join behind area-level figures in equy.

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Northern Ireland postcodes are licensed separately from the rest of the directory, so equy does not hold them. A BT postcode simply has no area data here — it is not an error, and it says nothing about the postcode.

UK House Price Index

Published by HM Land Registry under the Open Government Licence v3.0

The official monthly house price index for every UK local authority. equy uses it to show what your own last valuation would be worth today if your area moved with the index — a clearly-labelled estimate beside your valuation history, never a replacement for it.

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• Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0

The index is calculated by the Office for National Statistics from sales data supplied by HM Land Registry, Registers of Scotland, and Land & Property Services Northern Ireland.

Price Index of Private Rents (PIPR)

Published by Office for National Statistics under the Open Government Licence v3.0

Average private rents by area, month and property size. equy shows your local authority’s average beside your own rent, so a figure you set years ago has something to be measured against.

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Published for local authorities in England and Wales; Scotland and Northern Ireland are published for rental market areas instead, which a postcode cannot yet be resolved to — so a property there shows no rent comparison rather than a figure for the wrong area.

English Indices of Deprivation 2025

Published by Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government under the Open Government Licence v3.0

Ranks every small area in England from most to least deprived, across income, employment, education, health, crime, housing and living environment. equy shows the decile your property’s area sits in, which is a standard screening input for investors.

• Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0

England only. Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland each publish their own index on their own methodology, so a property in any of them shows no decile rather than one from a different scale. On this scale 1 is the most deprived tenth of England, which is the opposite of what most people assume — equy always says so beside the figure.

Energy Performance of Buildings register

Published by Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government under the Energy Performance of Buildings data licensing restrictions

The official register of energy performance certificates for England and Wales. When you confirm that a property is yours, equy reads its certificate — the rating, the dates, the floor area — from here rather than asking you to type it in.

The following is reproduced from the licensing restrictions published by MHCLG for the Energy Performance of Buildings Data service. “This website” in it refers to that service, not to equy.

• All data fields other than the address and postcode data (address, address 1, address 2, address 3, postcode) available via this website are licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0, which includes Ordnance Survey UPRNs.
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• This data contains address data (address 1, address 2, address 3, postcode – processed against Ordnance Survey’s Address Base Premium product, which incorporates Royal Mail’s PAF® database (Address Data). MHCLG has published the address data with the consent of Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail Group Limited; Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail Group Limited reserve all their respective copyright, database rights, trademarks and other intellectual property rights. Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail Group Limited permit the use of ‘address data’ solely for specific purposes related to the energy performance of buildings which are as follows:
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• Promotion and better understanding of the current energy efficiency of buildings and potential improvement in the building sale or rental markets and/or by building occupiers or users.
• To enable enforcement authorities to carry out enforcement duties as required by the Energy Performance of Buildings Regulations (England and Wales) 2012 (SI 2012/3118).
• By local authorities in the exercise of their duties under section 91 of the Building Act 1984, or an approved inspector for the purposes of the inspector’s functions under Part 2 of the Building Act 1984.
• For the prevention or detection of crime, the apprehension or prosecution of alleged offenders, any proceedings in a court or tribunal or complying with an order or a court or a tribunal.
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• Any use of address data which is not specified in this notice or covered by one of the copyright exceptions requires an appropriate licence from Ordnance Survey. You can contact Ordnance Survey at PricingLicensing@os.uk and/or Royal Mail Group Limited (address.management@royalmail.com).
• By using address data on this website, you will be taken to agree to the terms set out in this copyright and database right notice. Failure to comply with this copyright and database right notice may lead to Ordnance Survey and/or Royal Mail Group Limited taking legal action against you.
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The register covers England and Wales. Scotland publishes its certificates separately and Northern Ireland runs its own regime, so a property in either simply has no register record here.

Price Paid Data

Published by HM Land Registry under the Open Government Licence v3.0

Every residential sale registered in England and Wales since 1995 — the address, the price and the date. equy reads the sales on your property’s postcode so the market section shows what places near you actually sold for, and attaches your own building’s sales to its record where the two addresses match exactly.

• Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

England and Wales only — Scotland’s sale prices are sold rather than published openly, and Northern Ireland has no equivalent, so a property in either shows no sold prices rather than a figure from somewhere else. Sales take roughly a month or two to reach the register after completion, and prices marked as not being at full market value (repossessions, part-exchanges, transfers between companies) are kept out of the comparables.

Street-level crime data

Published by Home Office (police.uk) under the Open Government Licence v3.0

Crimes reported to the police, by month and category. equy reads the counts within a mile of your property’s postcode so the area panel can show what is reported nearby and whether it is rising or falling.

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The published locations are deliberately imprecise: each crime is moved to a map point that covers at least eight addresses, so that no report can be tied to a home. equy stores only counts, never locations, and never presents crime as being about a particular property. The service covers England and Wales — Police Scotland does not publish to it at all, and although the PSNI does, equy reads it by postcode centroid and the postcode directory above excludes Northern Ireland, so a property in either shows nothing here rather than a figure from elsewhere.

Census 2021: Tenure (TS054)

Published by Office for National Statistics under the Open Government Licence v3.0

How households in a small area hold their homes — owned, renting privately, renting socially. equy shows the mix around your property, because the share renting privately is the clearest published signal of rental demand in an area.

• Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0

Figures are as at Census Day, 21 March 2021, and are final. ONS makes small deliberate changes to counts before publishing them, so that households which would otherwise stand out cannot be identified; that is why the categories may not add up exactly to the total. England and Wales only — Scotland and Northern Ireland run their own censuses.