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  • Land & Property Services (LPS) data available online

    Topics:
    • Land registration, 
    • Statistics and research, 
    • Property rating, 
    • Property valuation, 
    • Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland, 
    • Domestic rating, 
    • Domestic valuation, 
    • Housing stock statistics, 
    • Lone Pensioner Allowance (LPA) and Disabled Person's Allowance (DPA) statistics, 
    • New dwelling statistics, 
    • NI House Price Index, 
    • Non domestic rating, 
    • Non Domestic valuation, 
    • Spatial NI

    Land & Property Services (LPS) publish data online. Some of this information has been summarised and linked below.

    1. Lone Pensioner Allowance and Disabled Person's Allowance Statistics

    Land & Property Services (LPS) process applications from ratepayers for Lone Pensioner Allowance (LPA) and Disabled Person's Allowance (DPA). These statistics provide information on the number of persons and net amount awarded each year in Northern Ireland.

    Published on DoF website

    • Lone Pensioner Allowance and Disabled Person's Allowance Statistics

    Published Open Data NI

    • Disabled Person's Allowance Statistics
    • Lone Pensioner Allowance Statistics

    2. Property Vacancy Rates by District Council and Sector

    Property vacancy rates tables relate to those properties recorded as vacant on the LPS rating system. This information provides data for a point in time and is updated quarterly.

    This data is provided by domestic*, non-domestic and overall totals. Mixed properties (a property that is a mix of domestic and non-domestic) are included within the non-domestic totals.

    *Note, the domestic property numbers provided in these tables are counted differently from the housing stock figures for Northern Ireland because caravans, domestic garages, domestic stores, car parking spaces are included in this domestic property count and mixed properties are excluded.

    Published Open Data NI

    • Quarterly Property Vacancy Rates by District Council and Sector

    3. NI House Price Index

    The Northern Ireland House Price Index is designed to provide a measure of change in the price of a residential property sold in Northern Ireland. The report is updated quarterly and contains information on the average property price and number of sales as well as the index value.

    This includes breakdown by property type, new and existing resold dwellings; urban and rural areas; local government districts and annual median prices by LGD, district electoral area and electoral ward.

    Published on DoF website

    • NI House Price Index

    Published Open Data NI

    • NI House Price Index by Property Type
    • NI Annual Descriptive House Price Statistics LGD Level
    • NI Annual Descriptive House Price Statistics Electoral Ward Level
    • NI House Price Index - Mean Median Standardisded Price

    4. New Dwellings Commencement and Completions Statistics

    The New Dwellings Commencement and Completions statistics provide a count of new dwellings started and completed in each local government district across Northern Ireland. This data is based on the council building control starts and completions data.

    Published on DoF website

    • New Dwellings Commencements and Completions Statistics

    Published Open Data NI

    • New Dwellings Commencements
    • New Dwellings Completions Statistics

    5. Housing Stock Statistics

    The Housing Stock statistics provide a count of domestic dwellings (excluding caravans, domestic stores and lock-up garages) in each local government district across Northern Ireland at the beginning of April each year 2008 to 2023.

    Published on DoF website

    • Housing Stock Statistics

    Published Open Data NI

    • Housing Stock Statistics

    6. Valuation Lists

    Valuation lists offer the facility to find the Capital Value of domestic property and the Net Annual Value (NAV) of non-domestic property for rating purposes.

    Published on DoF website

    • Property Search
    • Non Domestic Valuation
    • Domestic Valuation
    • Historic Property Search

    7. OSNI Spatial NI

    Spatial NI is Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland’s web mapping platform. It provides access to not only Ordnance Survey’s authoritative mapping data, but other geospatial information from multiple providers across the public sector. The free to use, web accessible mapping application allows you to view a range of information on a map.

    • Spatial NI Website
    • Map Viewer User Guide (PDF)

    The Spatial NI map gallery provides access to public sector mapping applications on a wide range of topics that impact or influence our daily lives.

    • Spatial NI Map Gallery

    8. OSNI Open Data

    OSNI have released a range of data products as open data which are free to download, use and share with an Open Data Licence from Open Data NI.

    Published Open Data NI

    • OSNI Open Data

    9. Annual End of Year Rating Debt by District Council and Sector

    Annual End of Year Rating Debt tables relate to debt values and the number of occupancies* in debt at the 31 March each year as recorded on the LPS rating system.

    The information provided is at a point in time and the tables are updated annually.

    *An occupancy represents a liable person, persons, business or organisation at a property at a given time.

    Published Open Data NI

    • End of Year Rating Debt by District Council and Sector

    10. LPS Call handling performance and office visits statistics

    LPS collect, process and manage land and property information, which underpins the collection of rates, these tables provide data on LPS Call handling and LPS Offices in-person visits.

    Published Open Data NI

    • Call Handling Statistics

    11. Information Requests

    The Freedom of Information on Act 2000 and Environmental Information on Regulations 2004 provide public access to information on held by public authorities.

    These tables include data on the number of Information requests received by LPS relating to Freedom of Information; Environmental Information Requests and Subject Access Requests.

    Published Open Data NI

    • Information Requests

    12. Complaints and MP/ MLA Correspondence

    These tables include LPS data on the number of complaints and MP/ MLA correspondence received.

    Published Open Data NI

    • Corporate Governance

    13. Town Centre Database

    The Town Centre database is produced by the Department for Communities and includes LPS valuation data.

    Published on the DfC website

    • Town Centre Database

    More useful links

    • Land & Property Services (LPS)

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