Lois nationales 35% open

How open is the data?

•  It's not openly licenced
•  It's in an open and machine-readable format
•  It's not downloadable at once
•  It's up-to-date
•  It's not publicly available
•  It's not available free of charge

All answers

Question	Answer	Comment
Openly licenced	No	Dates, addresses and prices paid for estate property transactions in England and Wales are available as open data, but without details of ownership.
In an open and machine-readable format	CSV, DBF, SHP, SHX	Known formats are CSV for tabular data and Esri Shapefile for polygons. Data may be available in other formats but I am unable to establish this from open sources i.e. without paying for data.
Downloadable at once	No
Up-to-date	Yes	The body of data is updated incrementally during the process of conveyancing and registration of property and land.
Publicly available	No	Other than some generalised polygons for England and Wales, the relevant data is not directly accessible on the public web.
Available free of charge	No
findable	4
findable_steps	I was previously aware of the relevant data holders, so navigated from their homepages to the relevant sections of their sites.	This response refers to information about the data rather than the data itself as most is only available on commercial terms.
Collected by government	Yes
usability	3	The data is only available on commercial terms but by reputation it is as easily usable as I would normally expect for data of this type.
collector_name	Land Registry and Registers of Scotland	This response is in respect of Great Britain. Land Registry (LR) maintains data for England and Wales and Registers of Scotland (RoS) maintains data for Scotland.
Controlled access	Yes
characteristics	Parcel boundaries (inc. latitude and longitude), Parcel ID, Property value (i.e. Price Paid, Property Tax Value), Tenure Type (ie. leasehold, freehold, protected lands, public lands, customary lands)
location	https://www.gov.uk/topic/land-registration/data - Land registration data (Land Registry), https://www.ros.gov.uk/property-data/data-services - Property data services (Registers of Scotland)