Bailey, N. and Urban Big Data Centre, (2025) Zoopla Free Text Addresses to UPRN dataset. [Data Collection]

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Collection description

Overview:

Zoopla plc is one of the UK’s major property listings services, founded in 2007. Their service includes domestic property listings for both rental and sales. UBDC has had a partnership with Zoopla since 2016. The Zoopla datasets contain information related to both rental and sale property listings in the UK from 2010 onwards. They cover various property characteristics including location, type, and size of property as well as other features along with the sale or rental price and the dates for which the listing was live. Open text fields may contain further unstructured information on property attributes and amenities

The method by which the research datasets are produced has changed over time so there are two series, both of which cover sales and rental listings:

• Generation 1: from the 1st of January 2013 to 31st December 2021

• Generation 2: from the 1st of October 2016 onwards

The fields available in each Generation are similar. Full details are provided in the tables below. The main differences between Generation 1 and Generation 2 are the inclusion in Generation 2 of geographic coordinates for listings (longitude, latitude) and the provision of additional information on changes in property features during the life of the listing.

Zoopla Freetext Addresses to UPRN dataset:

The dataset aims to enhance the Urban Big Data Centre's (UBDC) Zoopla dataset by resolving unstructured and malformed property addresses into standardized Unique Property Reference Numbers (UPRNs), making the data interoperable and hence adding value. The creation of the dataset involved leveraging a program named FLAP, which is designed to parse and match partial or misconstructed addresses to their correct UPRN. The dataset only contains entries regarding the 'sales' variant of the ubdc zoopla dataset

Access and restrictions:

Zoopla and Ordnance Survey's AddressBase Premium dataset licences are both required by researchers before access to this derived dataset is permitted. Researchers are required to provide evidence proving that they have these licences before the dataset would be supplied.

More information:

Details of the data available via Zoopla’s Application Programming Interface (API) can be found at https://developers.zoopla.co.uk/docs/alto-apis-zoopla-apis

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