Why Scotland and Northern Ireland are not covered

If you have searched our sold price pages for an address in Edinburgh, Glasgow or Belfast and found nothing, the data is not broken and your property has not been overlooked. HM Land Registry Price Paid Data covers England and Wales, and that is the dataset behind everything we publish. Scotland and Northern Ireland run their own registration systems on their own terms, and neither produces an equivalent open file.

The short answer

Property registration is not a single United Kingdom system. Land in England and Wales is registered by HM Land Registry, land in Scotland by Registers of Scotland, and land in Northern Ireland by its own registry within the Northern Ireland administration. Each was created separately, operates under different law, and makes its own decisions about what to publish and on what terms.

This is the whole story in one table. Everything below is detail about what does exist in each place and what you can realistically do with it. For an address in England or Wales, the lookup route is set out in how to check what a house sold for.

Scotland: a separate register, on separate terms

Registers of Scotland maintains the Land Register, which has been progressively replacing the older Sasine Register of deeds. Price information is not hidden. Searching an individual property through ScotLIS, the land information service, is free, and for a property already on the Land Register the free result typically shows the title number, the boundaries, the date of the last purchase and the last price paid where that is held. Copies of the title sheet and plan carry a small fee.

What differs is the access model one level up. Registers of Scotland draws a line between statistics, which are summarised and published free, and data, meaning sales data reports covering individual transactions, which are sold under licence. That is the practical blocker for a service like ours: street level medians need the whole transaction file, refreshed on a schedule and licensed for onward publication, which is a commercial arrangement in Scotland rather than an open one. Check the Registers of Scotland site for the current products, fees and terms, because all three change.

For a buyer looking at one address, none of that is a real obstacle. A free ScotLIS lookup answers the question that Price Paid Data answers south of the border, and the published Scottish house price statistics cover direction of travel by area. What you cannot easily do is assemble a whole street, which is exactly the job that an open bulk file makes trivial in England and Wales.

Northern Ireland: no open register of prices

Northern Ireland is the harder gap. Land registration exists and ownership records can be searched, but there is no published open dataset of individual residential sale prices comparable to Price Paid Data. Nothing about that is an oversight; it reflects a different administrative history and different publication decisions.

What Northern Ireland does have is a well regarded official price index. The Northern Ireland House Price Index is produced by Land and Property Services with the statistics agency, published quarterly, and drawn from administrative records of residential sales rather than from a public register of individual prices. It reports average prices and sales counts, including annual figures for local government districts and wards. For direction and for relative movement between areas, it is the right source. For the question of what number 14 sold for, there is no open answer.

What you can still do in Scotland

• Read the Home Report. Scottish sellers must generally provide one, and it includes a valuation carried out by a surveyor, which is a genuine advantage over the English system where buyers commission their own.
• Interpret offers over pricing carefully. An advertised figure is often a starting point in a closing date process rather than an expected price.
• Search the address on ScotLIS first, since the free result usually carries the last price paid, then pay for the title sheet only if you need the detail.
• Use the published Registers of Scotland statistics for area level direction, and treat them as trend evidence, not as comparables.
• Ask your solicitor. In Scotland, solicitors are far more central to property marketing and often know local achieved prices directly.

What you can do in Northern Ireland

• Use the official Northern Ireland House Price Index for the trend in your council area, quarter by quarter, and the annual ward level tables for something closer to a neighbourhood view.
• Treat sold figures shown on portals or quoted by agents as unverified. Some are accurate, none is authoritative.
• Search ownership records through the land registration service where you need to confirm title, accepting that this is a fee based route.
• Commission your own survey and valuation for the specific property, since there is no comparable evidence base to fall back on.
• Ask agents directly for achieved prices on similar homes, and ask how they know, which separates the well informed from the confident.

Would we cover them if we could?

Yes, on one condition: an address level source, refreshed on a predictable schedule, licensed for reuse. That is what makes the England and Wales product possible, and its absence elsewhere is not something a clever workaround fixes. Scraping a per property lookup service at scale, or reconstructing prices from portal listings, would produce a dataset that looks national and is quietly unreliable, quite apart from the terms it would breach.

So the honest position is a gap rather than an estimate. If the licensing position in Scotland changes, or if Northern Ireland publishes transaction level data, we will build on it and say so. Until then, our sold price pages cover England and Wales, and the dataset behind them is described in Price Paid Data explained.

Sources: coverage of Price Paid Data is defined by HM Land Registry, whose remit is England and Wales, with roughly 30 million transactions published since January 1995. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Scottish and Northern Irish arrangements change, so confirm current fees, services and publication practice with the bodies linked above before relying on any of this.