House price data

Asset Price Calculator page uses indices downloaded from the Nationwide website.
Long suspected these indices exaggerated the increase in house prices. The two charts below are sufficient to refute this suspicion.

The charts are a very rough-and-ready comparison of disparate datasets.
Charts are a point in time and may not be maintained.
Office for National Statistics publishes house price data from HM Land Registry and Registers of Scotland. Data is forwarded by solicitors and conveyancers when sales and transfers have been completed.
The data is more comprehensive than that from single mortgage provider, Nationwide, and includes transfers that did not involve a mortgage.
Nationwide indices reflect mortgage applications at the post-survey approval stage.

Both charts have an overlay of FTSE All-share total return and CPI-inflation.
Regions do not correspond and Nationwide Outer Metropolitan region is dropped.

Land Registry average house price by region: December 2005 to December 2020

Nationwide average house price by region: December 2005 to December 2020

Key Colour	Region
	London
	FTSE All-Share
	South East
	East or East Anglia
	South West
	West Midlands
	East Midlands
	North West
	Yorks and Humber
	Wales
	Scotland
	North East or North
	CPI

Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2020.
Licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0

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