Data Hub Release Notes

📅 Week of June 30th, 2025

🚀 What’s New?

Table view for People & Society: You can now switch between chart and table views using a convenient toggle, helping you explore census data more efficiently and find specific stats with ease.
Stacked Bar Chart: New Build vs Second‑hand: The existing graph now displays as a stacked bar chart, clearly showing the split between new build and resale properties.

📈 Improvements & Performance Updates

Improved Zoom-Cluster Logic: Clicking a cluster now zooms you directly to the individual comparables in one step, enhancing navigation speed and reducing friction.
Enhanced Search-Area Visibility on Satellite View: Radius and polygon selection shapes are now more prominent against satellite imagery, improving clarity and usability.
Seamless Navigation Between Comparables & Market Intelligence: Switching between Comparables and MI modules now preserves map position, zoom level, and selected geographies for uninterrupted analysis.

🐞 Bug Fixes

Geo Tooltip Containment: Tooltips now stay fully visible within the map when hovering over areas in the map’s corners, no more cut-off labels.

📩 Notes for Users

As of June 30th, the old HIS platform has been retired. Any attempt to visit the legacy URL will now redirect you to data.hometrack.com.

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📅 Week of June 23rd, 2025

🚀 What’s New?

Bulk CSV Export Expanded:The bulk CSV export feature, which allows users to select all wards within a Local Authority (LA) or all LAs within a region and download data in one go, has now been extended to include the Affordability and Pricing modules. The exported data remains available in CSV format, ideal for seamless offline analysis and custom reporting.
Extended Monthly Cost Metrics in Affordability: Ownership and rental cost data now includes more granular monthly metrics with expanded Loan-to-Value (LTV) data, and mean property prices.
New “Market Activity” Module in Market Intelligence: This module features four datasets to help you track market trends:
- Number of sales by property type (annual and monthly)
- Number of transactions by new-build vs. second-hand (annual/monthly)
- Turnover as a percentage of total private housing stock
- Sales distribution by value band
New “Housing” Module in Market Intelligence: You can now explore data By Tenure or By Property Type. Each dataset displays both percentages and actual property counts, giving you a quick understanding of property inventory composition across your selected geographies.

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📅 Week of June 9th, 2025

🚀 What’s New?

Mean Property Price – Pricing Module: A brand-new Mean Price metric is now available in the Pricing module. You can explore average property price trends in addition to medians. This gives a clearer picture of market behaviour, especially in areas where outliers may skew typical values.
Price‑to‑Income Ratios – Affordability Module: Introducing the Price‑to‑Income tab! Explore three key metrics for your selected geographies:
- Household income
- Property price
- Price‑to‑income ratio
This provides a sharper view of affordability dynamics across regions and helps benchmark housing costs against local incomes.
Granular LTV Options – Income Required to Buy tab: Income required to buy just got more precise! You can now select Loan‑to‑Value (LTV) ratios from 60% to 95% in 5% increments.

This allows modelling of income requirements across realistic financing scenarios. Note: Adjusting LTV may not always change every metric, see the FAQs for explanations: “Why sometimes different LTV does not change some metrics”.

📅 Week of June 2nd, 2025

🚀 What’s New?

Key Facts Summary: You can now view a concise summary of the key data points for your selected geography. Switch between themed tabs: Overview, Pricing, Affordability, Supply & Demand, and People & Society, to get a quick, insightful snapshot of the area you're analysing.

📈 Improvements & Performance Updates

Market Intelligence Menu Enhancements: The menu of options is now always visible, making it easier to navigate. Some options may become inactive depending on your selected geographic boundaries. Hover tooltips will explain why certain options are unavailable, helping you better understand the context and constraints of your selection.

📅 Week of May 26th, 2025

🚀 What’s New?

Bulk CSV Download for Multiple Geographies: Users can now efficiently select all wards within a Local Authority (LA) or all LAs within a region to download data for all selected boundaries in bulk. This feature is currently live for the Supply & Demand module, with support for other modules coming soon.

🐞 Bug Fixes

Rent Value Date Preservation: The Rent Value Date is now correctly saved within saved searches, maintaining data accuracy and consistency.
Listings Links in 'Download All' Option: Listings links are now appropriately included when using the "Download All" option, ensuring comprehensive data exports.
Comparables Map Usability: Legend sizing has been improved for better display on smaller screens.

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📅 Week of May 12th, 2025

🚀 What’s New?

CSV Download for People & Society Module: Users can now export data from the People & Society module in CSV format, facilitating easier data analysis and reporting.

📈 Improvements & Performance Updates

Enhanced Graph Usability: The vertical axes on Supply and Demand graphs have been fixed to improve readability and user interaction.
Improved Boundary Overlay Visibility: Map visibility has been enhanced when geographical areas are selected or hovered over, providing better navigation.

🐞 Bug Fixes

Postcode Match Accuracy: Improvements have been made to the accuracy of postcode matching within the postal boundary selection in Market Intelligence.
Layering of Geographical Areas: Smaller geographical areas now consistently appear on top of larger ones when both are selected, ensuring better visibility and selection accuracy.

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📅 Week of April 28th, 2025

🚀 What’s New?

Parent-Child Geo Hierarchy in Market Intelligence: You can now view the hierarchical relationship between geographical areas. When selecting a ward, the larger geographies it belongs to are displayed, allowing for quick selection and navigation.
Quickly Hide Columns in Comparables: In the Comparables section, you can now hide columns in a table effortlessly. Simply hover your mouse over the column name and click "Hide" to remove it from view.

🐞 Bug Fixes

MI Data Refresh: We've addressed an issue causing missing records in pricing data. This fix has resulted in a 16% increase in available data, enhancing the comprehensiveness of your analyses

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📅 Week of April 14th, 2025

🚀 What’s New?

New People & Society Module Released: Market Intelligence has launched a new module featuring People & Society data. You can now explore the following datasets which uses the latest data from the 2021 Census for England & Wales and the 2022 Scotland Census:

Age Bands
Household Types
Car and Van Availability
Student Indicator
Religion
Ethnicity

🐞 Bug Fixes

Info panel scroll bar: Images are no longer cropped by the scrollbar.
Missing postcode districts: WF and TF postcode districts have been added to the Postal boundary selection.
Single-value filters: Comparables slider filters (e.g. bedrooms) now support selecting a single value (not just a range).

📢 Notes for Users

Website update: The old URL now permanently redirects to data.hometrack.com, so all your saved and past searches are available in one place.

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📅 Week of April 7th, 2025

🚀 What's New?

Product release notes: You can now find all development updates and improvements to Data Hub under the “What’s New” section — your go-to place to stay up to date with the latest changes.
Improved table and map view: You can now view the map and table side-by-side by clicking the single arrow. Or, expand the table to full screen using the double arrow — giving you more flexibility in how you explore data.
Map property marker upgrade: When multiple comparables are shown at the same location on the Comparables map the location marker now features a differentiated circular design. The coloured border of the map marker indicates the mix of property types within that cluster making it easy to know the property mix at a glance.

🐞 Bug Fixes

Smarter error messages: When filters return zero results, you’ll now see a clearer, more helpful error message.
Large area feedback: When the radius or area is above the limit, you’ll get a helpful message to adjust it.

📈 Improvements & Performance Updates

Increased draw area search limit: The maximum area for area searches has been extended to 120km², allowing for larger custom search areas such as the whole of Oxford.

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📅 Week of March 31st, 2025

🚀 What's New?

New filter design: Filters now collapse to provide more map space. Additional filters allow quick access to comparables with listing links or sale and rent values. Value filters have been updated to sliders for selecting specific ranges.
Improved search experience: Enter any postcode or location, and if using radial search, results will appear instantly within a 500m radius. The radius can now be adjusted and dragged to a new location directly on the map. Polygon shapes can also be modified directly from the map.
Enhanced data export: You can now download either all available data as a CSV file or only the current selection of comparables and data.
User profiles: A new user profile feature lets you view and favorite your recent searches. Access your profile by clicking your email address in the top-right corner.
Feedback form: A new feedback form is now available in the bottom-right corner for reporting issues or sharing suggestions.

🐞 Bug Fixes

Table view alignment: Data in the table view is now correctly aligned according to Excel standards.

📈 Improvements & Performance Updates

Increased radial search limit: The maximum radius for searches has been extended to 15 km.
Market Intelligence map: Download speeds have been significantly improved.

📢 Notes for Users

Website update: The platform is now accessible at data.hometrack.com. You can favorite this new URL for quick access, and using the old url will automatically redirect you.

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