Property Market Insights from Zoopla Live (Aggregated):

Discover valuable property market insights with our data product sourced from Zoopla Live, one of the UK's premier aggregators of property listings data. Gain access to a comprehensive dataset containing information on 27,000,000 homes, up to 1,000,000 property listings,.

The Urban Big Data Centre (UBDC) systematially collects daily property listings from Zoopla across the entire UK since 2017; and each year, we process and consolidate the collected data into yearly aggregated and harmonized 'analysis-ready' datasets.

Researchers can utilize this dataset to unlock meaningful insights into the property market.

Please note that additional daily data from Zoopla can be made available upon request if the provided aggregated product does not meet specific research requirements. Additionally, it's essential to be aware that each Zoopla year spans 18 months, from the 1st of Oct of the previous year until the 31st of March of the following year.

UBDC’s Zoopla data collection is a dataset that covers housing data since 2017, covering the area of Great Britain. UBDC has an agreement with Zoopla and has access to current property listings via Application Programming Interface (API). We have been collecting the listings since August 2016.

UBDC can provide Live Collected Aggregated Data: Aggregated (yearly) data made from Live Collected data. The Zoopla year is +/- 3 months for each year(= zoopla year 18 months) The collection requires unique property id in the API request.

We have also set up an email discussion list on housing data and related issues that you can join via the JISCMail website:

https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=UBDC-HOUSING-DATA

Note: In accessing this data, you agree that any downloading of content is for non-commercial reference only. No part of these materials may be used for any other purpose or reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior consent of the University of Glasgow.

Data is Zoopla Property Group PLC, © 2023, processed by Urban Big Data Centre, University of Glasgow

Details of the data available via Zoopla’s Application Programming Interface (API) can be found at

http://developer.zoopla.com/

The Zoopla Dataset provides a detailed repository of information covering property listings available on the Zoopla platform. Tailored to support businesses, researchers, and analysts in the real estate sector, this dataset delivers valuable insights into market trends, property valuations, and consumer preferences within the real estate market.

With key attributes such as property details, pricing data, location information, and listing history, users can conduct thorough analyses to refine property investment strategies, assess market demand, and identify emerging trends.

Whether you're a real estate agent seeking to enhance your property listings, a researcher investigating trends in the housing market, or an analyst aiming to refine investment strategies, the Zoopla Dataset serves as an essential resource for unlocking opportunities and driving success in the competitive landscape of real estate

The historic dataset is collected by querying for a known property_id. The result of these queries give the history of a property_id and in which listings (a property_id could have appeared in multiple listings through the years) through time.

Access and Restrictions

Non-commercial academic research within the UK only.

This statistic reveals the share of online estate agents total residential properties stock that was listed "under offer" on Zoopla in the United Kingdom in 2015. Nu:Move had 58 percent of its total stock listed on the property website, while Purplebricks, which had the highest number of properties listed on the site, had listed 36 percent of its stock.

This statistic shows the number of residential properties listed for sale on Zoopla in the United Kingdom as of May 2016, listed by online estate agents. Purplebricks and eMoov had the biggest number of residential properties listed on the leading property website. For Purplebricks, this number grew from 1,670 in February 2015, when a previous study of this kind was undertaken by the source, to the total of 6,582 in May 2016.

This statistic presents the real estate websites that proved most popular among people who hunt for properties to purchase in the United Kingdom in 2015. One fourth of respondents said they would use all three websites: Rightmove, Zoopla and OnTheMarket. However, OnTheMarket only had 2.1 percent of respondents reporting they would use the site alone.

This statistic presents the market capitalization value of selected online and traditional real estate agencies in the United Kingdom (UK) as of 2017. The leader of the market in terms of traditional model, Countrywide, reported the market capitalization of 370 million British pounds, as of May 2017. Purplebricks, the leading online real estate agency, recorded market value of 780 million British pounds in the same period.

This statistic shows the first-half results of real estate agency groups in the United Kingdom in 2016 and 2017, by pre-tax profit (in million GBP). The United Kingdom currently witnesses a sharp division between traditional high street brands and upcoming online agencies, such as Purplebricks and Zoopla. Countrywide, the group which runs the UK’s largest chain of residential estate agency brands, suffered a decrease in pre-tax profit from 24.3 million pounds to 447,000 pounds in the first six months of 2017. The main reasons for this decline are the rise of online competitors, the uncertainty of the upcoming Brexit along with the introduction of a stamp duty surcharge for second and additional properties since April 2017. Between the third quarter of 2016 and the third quarter of 2017, the number of transactions made in property purchases and rentals by online agents reached approximately 14,000.