Transaction volumes for a region

Returns monthly residential transaction counts for a UK region. This is a thin wrapper over ukh_hpi() that extracts the sales_volume column with its date. Transaction volumes lag the headline index by approximately five months because the Land Registry needs the full transaction set to settle.

Usage

ukh_transactions(region, from = NULL, to = NULL, refresh = FALSE)

Arguments

region

Character. Region slug, GSS code, or common name.

from, to

Optional. Date range (YYYY-MM-DD).

refresh

Logical. Re-download? Default FALSE.

Value

A data frame with date, region, and sales_volume.

See also

Other house price index: ukh_hpi(), ukh_hpi_compare()

Examples

# \donttest{
op <- options(ukhousing.cache_dir = tempdir())
tx <- ukh_transactions("england", from = "2020-01-01")
#> ℹ Downloading UK HPI for "england"...
head(tx)
#>         date  region sales_volume
#> 1 2020-01-01 england        56603
#> 2 2020-02-01 england        56568
#> 3 2020-03-01 england        57626
#> 4 2020-04-01 england        23673
#> 5 2020-05-01 england        30798
#> 6 2020-06-01 england        46664
options(op)
# }