Property

A property is defined as a separate unit, comprising an area of land with or without buildings.

The ‘Property’ dataset provides information about the location, size, tenure and type of property. Certain properties may have more than one entry in the data extract as government has more than one ‘interest’ in that property. For example, there may be two leases in the same property. It also provides information about the ‘owning’ government department and the ‘property centre’, i.e. that part of the government department responsible for that property. In addition, it has a property reference (the ‘ePIMS Property Ref’) that allows it to be linked to the other datasets.

The scope of the data includes land and property information for those government departments, together with any arms’ length bodies for which they are responsible, including their non-departmental public bodies (NDPBs), which fall under the responsibility of English Ministers. These assets are primarily located in England, but are also located in the devolved administrations of Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales as well as overseas. Also, some Local Authorities have chosen to publish their property data as part of our transparency exercise.