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- Housing
- Housing research and statistics
- Housing statistics
- Data collection and forms
- Other data collected
Other data collected
Housing Surveys
In April 2008 field work began for the new English Housing Survey (EHS) which has been created by integrating the English House Condition Survey (EHCS) and the Survey of English Housing (SEH). The EHS will continue to collect a similarly wide range of data on households and housing conditions and residents' attitudes to housing and related issues as previously collected by the EHCS and the SEH.
More information is available in the English Housing Survey section.
Information, reports and findings from the EHCS and SEH are available on the English House Condition Survey and Survey of English Housing pages respectively.
CORE (Continuous Recording)
CORE (COntinuous REcording) is a national information source funded jointly by the Tenant Services Authority and Communities and Local Government that records information on the characteristics of both housing association and local authority new social housing tenants and the homes they rent and buy.
Policy makers and practitioners regard the system as an essential tool for monitoring housing costs, assessing affordability and developing policy.
CORE was launched in 1989 following a successful pilot. Around 600 housing associations are now recording more than 125,000 general needs lettings, 90,000 supported housing lettings and 16,000 sales per year. Local authorities were invited to join CORE from April 2004 and over eighty percent of Local Authorities are now participating, with CORE participation now being included in the Audit Commission KLOE's as a measure of performance.
The Centre for Housing Research (CHR) at the University of St Andrews has managed CORE since 1999. More information is available on the CORE (external link) website.
Regulated Mortgage Survey (RMS)
The Regulated Mortgage Survey (RMS) is a monthly Communities and Local Government and Council of Mortgage Lenders survey which collects house price information from over 50 mortgage lenders on properties that reached completion during the month and for which they provided the mortgage. Other data items collected includes locality, type of dwelling, number of rooms and whether the property is new or old. From 1968 to 2003 the data was used primarily to determine a quarterly mix-adjusted house price index - but also served as a valuable source of additional information on the housing market.
During 2001 and 2002 some lenders were persuaded to start supplying details about all their completions instead of just a sample. This led to a substantial increase in the total number of completions received each month - and allowed the creation of a new, monthly index that was launched in September 2003.
In August 2005 the current RMS was first collected taking over from the Survey of Mortgage Lenders. During 2007 we estimate that the data we received covered 60 per cent of the UK mortgage market.
Data from Other Government Departments
We also collected data from other Government Departments such as the Department for Works and Pensions and Business and the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform. Where these are published, for example, in our Live Tables, the source will be quoted.
