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# Another Round of PropertyResearch Updates (Yes, More Charts)
- URL: https://wisener.net/another-round-of-propertyresearch-updates-yes-more-charts/
- Published: 2025-12-30T00:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-12T18:28:52.000Z
- Description: Recent updates to PropertyResearch include expanded repossession data, improved property search, refreshed HPI figures, new build analysis and enhanced EPC insights.
- Author: Lee Wisener
- Tags: Updates, #Import 2026-10-12 18:55

Quite a few updates over the past week, with as many suggestions taken on board as was realistically possible. As always, the priority remains the same: **reproducible, accurate data first**, and it has to be fast.

With the database now north of **100 GB**, individual tables exceeding **30 million rows**, and creeping towards **a billion individual data points**, keeping things responsive is… non-trivial. At this scale, every additional chart is basically an argument with physics.

Most of the wait-time issues are now largely handled via an army of background cache workers that pre-compute things *before* you ask for them. The end result is that almost everything on the site now loads close to instantly, which is generally preferable to staring at a spinner questioning your life choices. As the most frequent data is made available once per month, I can afford to cache it all and only cache again when there is new data to offer you.

### **EPC**

Mostly speed improvements here. EPC now has its own section and also integrates into individual property searches where a valid certificate exists. Worst case, finding an EPC takes around **980 ms**, depending on your connection, slightly slower on mobile, as this data can’t be fully cached without doing something truly unpleasant.

### **Property Dashboard**

Now fully cached. Therefore fast.

As much information as the Land Registry realistically provides is summarised here. It’s not rich data, but everything it *does* contain is now surfaced in one place without unnecessary waiting.

### **Property Area Search**

A new section, and now fully cached.

This allows Land Registry data to be viewed by area, from smallest to largest:

- Locality
- Town / City
- District
- County

You can find the search [here](../property/search). It is quicker than before, which is the main point.

### **Individual Property Search**

Tidied up and reorganised based on suggestions. It was already fast, but now it should at least *look* like it knows what it’s doing.

### **Prime, Ultra Prime and Outer Prime**

These pages have been expanded to include everything usable from the Land Registry data, including price breakdowns by property type:

- Flats
- Detached
- Semi-detached
- Terraced

Additional charts now show:

- Existing vs new-build sales
- Leasehold vs freehold sales

The **Top 3 Sales** chart is now properly interactive, you can hover over each point and see full details, including the postcode, should you feel the urge to investigate further.

### **Repossessions**

Yes, fine, I got too clever and built an over-engineered dashboard that nobody liked. Clearly my fault.

This has now been rebuilt and simplified.

There’s a clean summary view with high-level data, plus a search box that lets you drill down into **Local Authority level** figures. That’s the lowest level the data supports, so no, you can’t go smaller.

### **General Tidying**

- The **House Price Index (HPI)** section has been cleaned up with simpler, more readable charts covering the UK, England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
- The **new-build comparison** has been simplified to show total new-build vs existing sales, plus whether each increased or decreased year-on-year. No unnecessary decoration.

### **Not really relevant, but I’ll say it anyway**

I’ve also built a new admin dashboard that lets me update all market-stress indicators quickly as soon as new data drops. Nobody will ever see this, but it makes my life easier, which matters.

That’s the last week covered.

More updates/changes are coming next week.