UK Basement Price Index: Headline Figures per Square Metre
basementexcavationcost/basement-index-summary
Returns the headline figures of the UK Basement Price Index: the median, minimum, maximum, quartiles and mean of the UK basement excavation and conversion costs that UK builders and architects publish on their own pages (in GBP per square metre; every figure is a per-square-metre rate), how many of the sources read publish a figure at all, and how the median moved since the previous computation (null when the publisher reports no change). Takes no input. Also returns the publisher's citation line and the link to the index page; cite the figures with that link. Data from basementexcavationcost.co.uk, served by Eden Engine; not an official basementexcavationcost.co.uk product.
Price
$0.0026 per call
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Data source
UK Basement Price Index (basementexcavationcost.co.uk)
Data from the UK Basement Price Index published by basementexcavationcost.co.uk (https://basementexcavationcost.co.uk/datasets/uk-basement-price-index/). Cite the figures with a link to that page. Served by Eden Engine; not an official basementexcavationcost.co.uk product.
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| Charge | Price |
|---|---|
Per call | $0.0026 |
- Updated
- Oct 25, 2026
Input and output schemas
Input schema
{
"type": "object",
"properties": {},
"additionalProperties": false
}Output schema
{
"type": "object",
"required": [
"title",
"url",
"citation",
"computed_at",
"national"
],
"properties": {
"url": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Link to the index page on the publisher's site. Cite the figures with this link."
},
"title": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Name of the index."
},
"license": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Link to the publisher's terms of use."
},
"citation": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The publisher's citation line for the index, with the date it was updated and the page link."
},
"headline": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The publisher's one-sentence summary of the current figure; its amounts are in GBP per square metre."
},
"national": {
"type": "object",
"required": [
"unit",
"n"
],
"properties": {
"n": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "Number of figures behind the statistics."
},
"max": {
"type": [
"number",
"null"
],
"description": "Highest figure, per square metre; null when no source publishes one."
},
"min": {
"type": [
"number",
"null"
],
"description": "Lowest figure, per square metre; null when no source publishes one."
},
"p25": {
"type": [
"number",
"null"
],
"description": "25th percentile, per square metre; null when no source publishes a figure."
},
"p75": {
"type": [
"number",
"null"
],
"description": "75th percentile, per square metre; null when no source publishes a figure."
},
"mean": {
"type": [
"number",
"null"
],
"description": "Mean of the figures, per square metre; null when no source publishes one."
},
"unit": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Currency code; the figures are per square metre."
},
"units": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {},
"description": "Count of figures per currency code.",
"additionalProperties": true
},
"median": {
"type": [
"number",
"null"
],
"description": "Median of the figures, per square metre; null when no source publishes one."
},
"read_sources": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "Sources the publisher could read in full."
},
"named_sources": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "Sources the publisher lists."
},
"not_published": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "Sources read in full that publish no figure."
},
"published_share": {
"type": "number",
"description": "Share of read sources that publish a figure, 0 to 1."
},
"published_sources": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "Sources read in full that publish a figure."
}
},
"description": "Statistics across all figures, in GBP per square metre.",
"additionalProperties": true
},
"computed_at": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Date the index was last computed, YYYY-MM-DD."
},
"changed_since": {
"type": [
"object",
"null"
],
"properties": {
"delta": {
"type": [
"number",
"null"
],
"description": "Change in the median."
},
"since": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Date of the earlier computation."
},
"sentence": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The publisher's sentence describing the change."
},
"direction": {
"type": "string",
"description": "up, down or unchanged."
},
"previous_median": {
"type": [
"number",
"null"
],
"description": "Median at that date."
}
},
"description": "How the median moved since the previous computation; null when the publisher reports no change.",
"additionalProperties": true
}
},
"description": "The UK Basement Price Index headline figures, all in GBP per square metre.",
"additionalProperties": true
}