UK Property Portal is written and published by Dan Woodcock, working independently from UK. It is a one-person operation — there is no newsroom and no research team behind it, and this page says so plainly because the point of the site is that its figures can be checked rather than taken on trust.
It exists for landlords with one to three properties who manage them personally: people who need to know what the rent is in their area, what their obligations are and by when, and who do not have a portfolio manager to ask. Everything here is free to read, and the data is free to cite.
One rule governs everything published here: every figure is a real, published figure, attributed to the body that published it and dated to the period it describes. Nothing is estimated, modelled to fill a gap, or carried forward to look current.
In practice that means a few things a reader can hold this site to. Where a figure has not been published for a period, the gap is shown as a gap — not as a zero, and not as last month's number repeated. Where official statistics are revised after publication, the revision is reported rather than quietly overwritten, because a figure that changes without saying so is worse than no figure. And where area-level data genuinely cannot answer a question — what one specific property should let for, for instance — the site says so instead of producing a number that looks like an answer.
That standard is the credential. It is also checkable, which matters more: the citable data hub lists the current headline figures with their source, their reference period and the date each was read, alongside a ready-made citation and a CSV download. The Rental Yield Index methodology sets out the formula, the exact inputs, the coverage and exclusions, and the limits of what the measure can tell you. Both exist so the work can be audited rather than believed.
The underlying statistics are official and public. Rent figures come from the ONS Price Index of Private Rents. House prices come from the HM Land Registry UK House Price Index. Interest rates come from the Bank of England database. Compliance guidance is written from the legislation and from GOV.UK guidance, and links to the source in each case.
The one thing here that is genuinely this site's own work is the UKPP Rental Yield Index: gross rental yield for every English local authority, computed by joining those ONS rent figures to those Land Registry price figures, published monthly and kept as a consistent back-series. The individual inputs are public; the harmonised series across 294 local authorities is not something you can cheaply reconstruct from them, which is why it is published as a dataset in its own right.
Two different things are published here, and they carry different terms, because they come from different places and are owned by different people. Stating one blanket licence over both would mean claiming rights this site does not own.
The official figures are Crown copyright and database right, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. When reusing them, carry the publisher’s own attribution: “Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0”, and for price data specifically, “Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0”. Bank of England Bank Rate, SONIA and the quoted 2- and 5-year fixed mortgage rates are fetched from the Bank’s Interactive Database, which its own terms place under this same licence.
The Rental Yield Index is the one thing this site computes itself, so it is licensed under CC BY 4.0 — free to reuse, including commercially, with attribution to UK Property Portal. The ONS and HM Land Registry attributions above still apply to its inputs.
One figure was withdrawn on 11 August 2026. This site previously published the 2-year OIS rate, taken from the Bank of England’s yield-curve data and shown with an explicit note that no licence covered it. We asked the Bank for permission to republish it. The Bank declined: that data “incorporates third-party data sources, including Bloomberg and other providers” for which it cannot grant authorisation, it is not covered by the Open Government Licence, and permission must come from those providers directly. So the figure has been removed from every page here, and from the three weekly briefs that had cited it. Nothing else changed: every remaining Bank of England figure on this site — Bank Rate, SONIA and the quoted mortgage rates — comes from the Interactive Database and is covered by the Open Government Licence.
No licence or attribution on this page implies that ONS, HM Land Registry or the Bank of England endorse this site or its analysis. They do not.
If a figure here is wrong, it should be fixed and said so. Corrections, questions about the data, and press or research enquiries all go to [email protected]. General enquiries go to [email protected].
Nothing published here is financial, investment, tax or legal advice. It is sourced information about a market and the rules that govern it, intended to help you ask a professional a better question — not to replace one.