# First-time buyers and everyone else

> What the first rung costs, against what the people already on it pay.

- Category: Housing
- Cadence: monthly
- Status: Published on a monthly cadence.
- Dataset key: `price-buyers`
- Source: [Land Registry](https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/price-paid-data)
- Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0 — [terms](https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/)
- Canonical page: [https://londongraph.com/g/first-time-buyers](https://londongraph.com/g/first-time-buyers)
- Machine-readable record: [https://londongraph.com/data/first-time-buyers](https://londongraph.com/data/first-time-buyers)

## Methodology

Average London price paid by first-time buyers against former owner-occupiers, monthly since 1995, from the UK House Price Index. The gap is not the cost of moving up — it is the difference in what each group buys.

## Visualisations

- [Buyer prices](https://londongraph.com/g/first-time-buyers): Compare first-time-buyer and former-owner-occupier average prices.
- [Indexed comparison](https://londongraph.com/g/first-time-buyers?view=indexed): Set both buyer-group series to 100 at the first visible month.
- [First to latest](https://londongraph.com/g/first-time-buyers?view=gap): Compare the two published buyer-group averages at the first and latest visible month.

## Citation guidance

Attribute the original publisher named above and identify LondonGraph as the visualisation and methodology layer. Do not describe live values as a historical census, and do not present placeholder values as observations.