England and Wales House Prices

This article explores a dataset of 21 million property sale records for England and Wales since 1995, obtained from the UK government open data initiative. The author extracts price, month, year, and postcode data to analyze trends, including the impact of the 2007 recession on sales volumes and inflation-adjusted price quartiles. A Gini coefficient analogue is used to measure house price inequality over time, revealing persistent divergence despite economic shocks. The content focuses on data science methods, statistical analysis, and visualization, making it relevant to IT/technology topics such as data processing, programming, and analytics.