Life cycle profile is a useful indicator of the complexion of residents in a locality. Some areas, like inner cities and built-up areas, have lots of young single people who live in flat shares or alone. Most of the suburban parts of the country are filled up with families. Some [...]

We've used a donut chart (excuse the American spelling) to illustrate the mix of properties that have sold in the last 12 months. Given the profile of the housing stock in the area, there's nothing too surprising here, but it's interesting to see how the different types of properties are [...]

The average unweighted sold prices of houses and flats have generally seen a steady incline over the last eight years. It'll come as no massive surprise the houses are typically more expensive than flats but, the movements over time are nonetheless telling.

How often we commute to the office and how long it takes each day has major implications on where we all choose to live. While the ever-increasing use of technology has made it easier to work from home, most people living in Britain still take part [...]

The profile of jobs is an important yardstick for the makeup of people in a housing market. In this analysis we've used data from the Office for National Statistics on the number of people in the local area who work in each industry. The categories are a bit vague but [...]