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UK House Price Index Graphs - Aggregated from various indexes including Land registry House price Index Rightmove House price Index ONS House price Index Halifax House price Index Nationwide House price Index All the historical Data has been shared at : Diaryfolio Google Docs  link Please also check:  http://www.diaryfolio.com/2012/10/planning-to-buy-house-one-stop-shop.html Nationwide Index Halifax Index    RightMove Index     Land Registry Index      Community and Local Index    Please also check the one Stop shop before purchasing house http://www.diaryfolio.com/2012/10/planning-to-buy-house-one-stop-shop.html DataSnapshot  UK House Price Chart

Hope everyone wants to get into the housing ladder. It seems simple, but its NOT. You need to thoroughly invest time before you buy a house. It may be your once in life investment. This has been written mainly for UK house market. Please also see some older articles before you read down Is Renting Cheaper than Buying? Renting vs Buying by NYTimes Should you Rent or Buy Calculator Tools and Sites RightMove , Zoopla aka FindaProperty , Globrix PropertyBee  Plugin - Seller psychology with amended, re-listed prices of properties Mouseprice   or Zoopla - Sold house prices School Finder - Quickly view good schools and ratings Historical Prices - Rightmove , Zoopla Mortgage calculators / Loan / Rate Information All type of mortgage calculations  at MSE MoneyAdvice Calculator Google Mortgage Comparison Mortgage meter  - To show average lending rates from Banks Land Reg Price Calculator - Showing CAGR and price estimation Loanmunger.com - A simple calcul

United Kingdom house prices going down.. Some reasons I can think of High value initial money requirements Stricter immigration controls? Value of house more than average wages Un-employment on the rise and no spare money for youth. The long term price trend graph is also going down. The above graphs are very much in-line with the research and bubble market hypothesis as I already noted in my previous post  http://www.diaryfolio.com/2012/03/housing-and-financial-bubble.html There are quite some clever graphs to check if its better to Buy house or Rent including the long term impact NYTimes Graph

I'm not a economic expert , but I like reading articles about finance and markets around the world. We are not sure about the depth of 2008 financial crisis but my opinion is its still in the down-trend There are some excellent articles about housing market. One of the graphs which caught my eye is the "LifeCycle of a bubble"  by " Dr. Jean-Paul Rodrigue " This bubble varies across countries and I feel it holds true in developed countries like the UK, US and many european countries. The phases are at different stages in various countries. But well worth to be aware of Some Helpful Links for Buying House  One Stop Shop