Why are some of the areas on the map coloured black?
Areas of the map are coloured to indicate average price bands and changes in value over time. When we do not have data to display, we colour the area in black to indicate to you that we have no data to display for that region. This occurs most often in Scottish areas where you request a display by property type – eg. Terraced or Semi-detached housing – because the Scottish data does not include information on property type so we can’t split out the property types when performing those calculations. We do provide figures for all property types instead. Black areas can also be seen in areas of England & Wales where there there simply isn’t any of that property type sold in the period you requested, or at all. Eg. In dense inner city areas there’s very little detached property available for sale (if any at all), or in remote rural areas there are little or no Flats for sale.
