How Boroughly measures Edinburgh
Three official figures, three different geographical boundaries. Here is exactly how to read them, refresh them, and avoid misleading neighbourhood comparisons.
Published indicators
Why aren't these three numbers the same?
£275,000 median counts sales in the NRS Edinburgh city locality during the 2025–26 reporting year. It is the midpoint of recorded sale values and does not account for individual property types or conditions.
£303,965 UK HPI average is a mix-adjusted price estimate for the larger City of Edinburgh local authority in 2026-07. It is a mean estimate, not the same statistic as the RoS city median. Initial HPI figures are provisional and can be revised.
£1,356/month describes two-bedroom properties in the much wider Lothian Broad Rental Market Area, averaged over the year to September 2025. It is not a current rental listing quote and is not a Leith or Stockbridge estimate.
What Boroughly has not verified
The 20 pins represent approximate neighbourhood centres, not statistical polygons. We have not yet matched a licensed or publishable Scottish transaction dataset, postcode addresses and exact neighbourhood boundaries sufficiently to calculate dependable area-level purchase medians. Local rental samples, street-level Police Scotland incident figures, school catchments and journey durations are also unavailable in this verified pipeline.
Official recorded crime statistics from the Scottish Government are available at local-authority level, not suitable for a street-level 1–10 neighbourhood safety ranking. Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation crime indicators describe historical small statistical zones and should not be presented as current Police Scotland incident counts or neighbourhood safety scores.
Refresh and accuracy rules
- The UK HPI figure can be refreshed from an official GOV.UK monthly Scottish HPI bulletin using
npm run scotland:refresh:hpi -- --url OFFICIAL_BULLETIN_URL. The importer checks the exact geography, month, source domain and anomalous changes before writing data. - Registers of Scotland's annual city sale median and the Scottish Government rental-market mean are checked manually against their new publications. They are not silently updated by fetching unrelated datasets.
- The build fails if a source loses its provenance or if the unscored locations are accidentally treated as scored English areas.
Choose a real home, not an averaged area
For an actual purchase, compare similar sold properties or seek professional advice about available Scottish registers and the property's Home Report. For rent, check current comparable listings and the tenancy conditions. A short walk between two addresses can change the decision more than any council-wide figure.
For schools, use the Edinburgh Council address-specific catchment map; for transport, check live Lothian Buses information and Edinburgh Trams. This data is deliberately not mixed into the England-and-Wales scores.