# UK House Price Index by Local Authority (`inhabitable_jingle_clk/uk-house-price-index`) Actor

UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry) by local authority: average house prices, index, annual change and sales volume. No API key.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/inhabitable_jingle_clk/uk-house-price-index.md
- **Developed by:** [James Marshall](https://apify.com/inhabitable_jingle_clk) (community)
- **Categories:** Real estate, Lead generation
- **Features:** Limited permissions
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## Pricing

from $1.00 / 1,000 results

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Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## UK House Price Index by Local Authority

Get the official **UK House Price Index (UK HPI)** for any UK local authority or region, month by month: average house price, index, annual and monthly percentage change, and sales volume, broken down by property type (detached, semi-detached, terraced, flat/maisonette, new build, first-time buyer, cash or mortgage, and more).

This is the government's own measure, not an estate-agent estimate or a portal asking price. It covers the whole United Kingdom down to individual local authorities.

Data comes from HM Land Registry's free public UK HPI linked-data service (landregistry.data.gov.uk). No API key, no login and no proxy.

### Who it is for

- Estate agents, valuers and surveyors comparing local price trends.
- Property investors and developers comparing local authorities or regions.
- Mortgage, proptech and dashboard teams who need official averages, not individual sales.
- Journalists and analysts tracking the UK housing market.

If you need individual sold prices (Price Paid transactions) rather than monthly averages, this Actor is not the right tool. Use a Price Paid Actor instead.

### Input

- **Areas**: UK HPI area names, e.g. `Caerphilly`, `Cardiff`, `Manchester`, `Wales`, `London`, `England`, `United Kingdom`. Names are matched to Land Registry region slugs (lower case, spaces become hyphens). Unknown names are reported as warnings, not errors.
- **Months back** (default 12): most recent published months per area.
- **Property types**: which breakdowns to include (`all` = every property type).
- **Skip empty months** (default on).

#### Example: 12 months for one Welsh local authority

```json
{
  "areas": ["Caerphilly"],
  "monthsBack": 12,
  "propertyTypes": ["all", "detached", "semiDetached", "terraced", "flatMaisonette"],
  "skipEmptyMonths": true
}
```

#### Example: latest year for four nations

```json
{
  "areas": ["England", "Scotland", "Wales", "Northern Ireland"],
  "monthsBack": 12,
  "propertyTypes": ["all"],
  "skipEmptyMonths": true
}
```

### Output

One dataset row per area per month (`type: "month"`), plus one `type: "summary"` row per area (latest price, annual change, change over the period, min/max, total sales volume). A `SUMMARY` record is also saved in the key-value store.

Example month row (Caerphilly, August 2026): average price £198,545, index 108.3, +4.4% annual, +0.9% monthly; detached £313,999.

Export to CSV, Excel or JSON, or pull the dataset through the Apify API, n8n, Make or Zapier.

### Pricing

Pay per result: **$1.00 per 1,000 rows** ($0.001 per area-month or summary row), plus Apify's minimum actor-start event ($0.00005). You are charged only for rows delivered. Platform compute is included in the event price.

A typical 12-month run for one local authority (12 month rows + 1 summary row) costs a little over 1 cent.

### Things to know

- UK HPI figures are revised by HM Land Registry for several months after first publication.
- The index is published roughly two months in arrears, so the newest available month is not last month.
- The newest 1–2 months usually have **no sales volume** yet (shown as `null`). Sales volume lags further than prices. That is the source, not a gap in this Actor.
- Data is aggregate statistics only. No addresses, individual sales or personal data.
- Prices are in GBP. The index is set so that January 2015 equals 100. Area names follow Land Registry naming.
- Not every breakdown exists at every level. Anything Land Registry does not publish comes back as `null`, never as zero.

### Related tools

- [UK Food Hygiene Rating Monitor (FSA)](https://apify.com/inhabitable_jingle_clk/fsa-hygiene-monitor)
- [UK Companies House Compliance Monitor](https://apify.com/inhabitable_jingle_clk/companies-house-compliance-monitor)

### Data source and licence

Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right. Licensed under the [Open Government Licence v3.0](https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/). Source: [HM Land Registry UK House Price Index](https://landregistry.data.gov.uk/app/ukhpi).

This Actor is independent and is not affiliated with or endorsed by HM Land Registry.

# Actor input Schema

## `areas` (type: `array`):

UK HPI area names, e.g. Caerphilly, Cardiff, Manchester, Wales, London, England, United Kingdom. Names are matched to Land Registry region slugs (lower case, spaces become hyphens).

## `monthsBack` (type: `integer`):

How many of the most recent published months to return per area.

## `propertyTypes` (type: `array`):

Breakdowns to include. 'all' = all property types.

## `skipEmptyMonths` (type: `boolean`):

Leave out months where Land Registry has not published an average price.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "areas": [
    "Caerphilly"
  ],
  "monthsBack": 12,
  "propertyTypes": [
    "all",
    "detached",
    "semiDetached",
    "terraced",
    "flatMaisonette"
  ],
  "skipEmptyMonths": true
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

Monthly house price rows and per-area summaries returned by this run (default dataset)

## `summary` (type: `string`):

SUMMARY record: per-area summaries, errors and OGL attribution

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "areas": [
        "Caerphilly"
    ],
    "monthsBack": 12,
    "propertyTypes": [
        "all",
        "detached",
        "semiDetached",
        "terraced",
        "flatMaisonette"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("inhabitable_jingle_clk/uk-house-price-index").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "areas": ["Caerphilly"],
    "monthsBack": 12,
    "propertyTypes": [
        "all",
        "detached",
        "semiDetached",
        "terraced",
        "flatMaisonette",
    ],
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("inhabitable_jingle_clk/uk-house-price-index").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "areas": [
    "Caerphilly"
  ],
  "monthsBack": 12,
  "propertyTypes": [
    "all",
    "detached",
    "semiDetached",
    "terraced",
    "flatMaisonette"
  ]
}' |
apify call inhabitable_jingle_clk/uk-house-price-index --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,inhabitable_jingle_clk/uk-house-price-index"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/S0kEwftlCD0LxIjR7/builds/dP6vYf5EIbFhfhGNs/openapi.json