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About MSN Local

MSN Local helps you get the most out of your neighbourhood. By searching for and combining a range of data points and information, you can make the best choices about where to live and find out more about your property and local area.You will be able to search for properties for sale or rent, average house prices, price trends, local amenities, schools, and transport links, crime statistics, flood plains and a lot more. Not only that but you'll be able to combine these searches in different ways you to give you a picture of your area that really matters to you.Do you want to see properties for sale close to a good school, transport links and a decent supermarket? Do you want to avoid flood plains or high crime risk areas? Do you want to compare an asking price to previously sold prices or get a idea of whether a area is increasing or decreasing in value? You can do all this and more on MSN Local.

Amenities And Transport Links

Click on the icons on the map to get location and contact information for local amenities such as shops and train stations.

Crime Statistics

The crime data is modelled on a range of data from the British crime Survey. The set is modelled on variables to give a value 'perception' against the national average levels. The crime value is listed in 3 incident types and weighted against the national average as follows:

1. Car Crime Perception Values:

1=Low, 2=Below Average, 3=Average, 4=Above Average, 5=High

2. Personal Crime Perception Values:

1=Low, 2=Below Average, 3=Average, 4=Above Average, 5=High

3. House Crime Perception Value:

1=Low, 2=Below Average, 3=Average, 4=Above Average, 5=High

Disclaimer

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Historical Property Value

Property Value is a household level segmentation based on house price data and actual council tax bands for each residential property in England, Wales and Scotland (Northern Ireland does not use the Council Taxation system). Property Value is a modelled value which calculates the estimated current property value i.e. potential sale price in March 2007. See also Historical house prices. Information produced by Land Registry. This material was last updated on 31st January 2009 © Crown copyright material is reproduced with the permission of Land Registry under delegated authority from the Controller of HMSO.

Historical House Prices

Historical House PricesResidential Property Transaction data is built using information supplied by HM Land Registry (sectors within England and Wales) and Registers of Scotland (RoS).For England and Wales, the data is supplied as quarterly sales volumes for each of 24 price bands and for four types of property - Detached, Flats/Maisonettes, Semi-Detached and Terraced. Information is available for each quarter since Quarter 1 (January - March), 1995 to Quarter 4 (October - December), 2007.For Scotland, the data is supplied as quarterly sales volumes for each of 22 price bands. The data is not split by type of property. Also Registers of Scotland does not supply data for sales at or below £20,000. Information is available for all quarters from Quarter 4, 2000 to Quarter 1, 2007. The figures are based on close to a full (100%) sample of the residential property transactions that have occurred within the quarterly time period and, as such, provide a much more comprehensive picture of the housing market than statistics relating to individual mortgage lenders.

Historical Data: Tenure

Tenure is a household level demographic variable that identifies whether a property is owner occupied, council / housing association or privately rented.

Historical Data: Number Of Bedrooms

There are two sources of information with regards this, the first is a postcode dominant number of bedrooms and the second is a household level estimate.

Historical Data: Residency Type

Residence Type is a household level demographic variable that identifies whether a property is terraced, semi-detached, detached, a flat or a bungalow.

Historical Data: Council Tax Band

Property Council Taxation is a household level segmentation based on actual council tax bands for the vast majority of residential properties in England, Wales and Scotland (Northern Ireland does not use the Council Taxation system). Where actual data cannot be matched to a household, then a dominant postcode value is used. Property Council Taxation is provided as a valuation band in the range A to H.

Properties for sale or rent

You can search for properties to buy or rent on an area of your choice. Our property listings are provided by our partner propertyfinder.com.Check the radio button to search for either properties to buy or to rent.You can choose a price range to search to find properties within your budget.You can also choose whether to display the properties on a map or in a list view.To refine your search you can search number of bedrooms, by distance from the area - so you can search within 1 mile of SW11 for instance. You can also choose property type, such as flat or house, and to view only those with parking or outside space.You can also see prices and trends information, meaning that we will show you prices previously paid for properties in that area as well as average prices and whether prices are rising or falling. This information comes from the Land Registry of England and Wales. Data for Scotland is supplied by. Unfortunately we do not carry this data for Northern Ireland.You can save a search for quick access later on or to get alerts for new properties that become available. Simply tick the checkbox.

Primary care organization

Issued by the National Health Service. Primary Care Organisations are responsible for local health care. For the four countries of the UK, the structure is as follows:England: 148 Primary Care Trusts and 4 Care Trusts, reporting to 10 Strategic Health Authorities. Wales: 22 Local Health Boards, reporting to 3 Regional OfficesScotland: Community Health Partnerships, reporting to 14 Health Boards Northern Ireland: Health and Social Services Boards, reporting to the Northern Ireland Executive.Click on the constituency heatmap to get primary care organisation information.

Political Constituency

Issued by the House Of Commons. Political Constituency Data details the name of the local Member of Parliament, (MP), and their party allegiance (if any). Click on the map once the heatmap has loaded to get constituency data.

Schools

Local Education Authorities (LEAs) are responsible for the local administration of state sector education in England and Wales. In Northern Ireland local education administration is the responsibility of five Education and Library Boards (Belfast, North Eastern, South Eastern, Southern, Western). In Scotland education administration is the responsibility of local government. All school data is sourced from the relevant government authority, (Office for National Statistics in England and Scotland, the Welsh Assembly in Wales), and is updated as soon as new figures are made available. The Welsh Assembly does not publish performance statistics for schools, therefore no data is available for schools from this region. Click on the schools icons on the map to get location, contact and performance information.

Socio-economic Data

Data classifies all UK consumers into 61 Types and 11 Groups. Using data from a wide range of public and private sources, Mosaic Public Sector has been linked to specific data sources from the health, education and criminal justice sectors, as well as local and central government.Click on the constituency heatmap to access socio-economic information.

Wikipedia

The information is a subset of what can be found on www.wikipedia.org. Click on the Wikipedia icons on the map to read the entry.