# Possession actions over time

> Claims, orders, warrants and bailiff repossessions across mortgage and landlord cases since 2003.

- Category: Housing
- Cadence: quarterly
- Status: Published on a quarterly cadence.
- Dataset key: `possession-actions-over-time`
- Source: [Ministry of Justice](https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/mortgage-and-landlord-possession-statistics)
- Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0 — [terms](https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/)
- Canonical page: [https://londongraph.com/g/possession-actions-over-time](https://londongraph.com/g/possession-actions-over-time)
- Machine-readable record: [https://londongraph.com/data/possession-actions-over-time](https://londongraph.com/data/possession-actions-over-time)

## Methodology

MoJ quarterly local-authority possession statistics summed across London. Mortgage, private-landlord and social-landlord cases remain separate, as do claims, orders, warrants and completed bailiff repossessions; earlier court stages must not be described as evictions.

## Visualisations

- [Trend](https://londongraph.com/g/possession-actions-over-time): Claims, orders, warrants and bailiff repossessions across mortgage and landlord cases since 2003.
- [Small multiples](https://londongraph.com/g/possession-actions-over-time?view=small-multiples): Give each series its own aligned panel.
- [Change](https://londongraph.com/g/possession-actions-over-time?view=change): Show the change from each preceding published period.

## 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.