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63%of the famous fivefold rise in house prices since 1995 is the pound shrinking, not housing
Nine of Greater Manchester's ten boroughs recorded their highest ever house prices last year. Measured in money that means the same thing from one year to the next, nine of the ten are worth less than they were in 2021. Both sentences come from the same 29,388,009 registered sales. This piece counts thirty years of Land Registry prices twice — once in cash, once in constant pounds — and shows that roughly 63% of the famous fivefold rise since 1995 is the currency getting smaller, not housing getting dearer.
1 in 40sales carrying a postcode that was not in service on the day the sale completed
Every transaction in our dataset matched a postcode. That is a claim about string equality, not about time. Once you ask whether each postcode was actually in service on the day of its sale, 755,475 of 29,604,663 sales — one in forty — turn out to be carrying geography from a different period of that postcode's life. In 1995 it is one in ten. This technical note measures the problem, explains why it is administration rather than error, and states what it does and does not undermine.
4rural house sales recorded in the city of Manchester between 2010 and 2025, out of 91,322
Manchester has recorded four rural house sales in sixteen years. Wigan has 2,276 — and for a stretch of the late 2010s they were worth noticeably more than the town. A national league table ranks Wigan fourth of 202 councils for the fastest-growing rural premium. We tried to break that finding, and mostly succeeded: replace the two endpoint years with three-year averages and Wigan's premium narrows rather than widens. What survives is a bigger story — the rural premium is shrinking almost everywhere in England and Wales.
6.2%real growth in the average private rent across a decade — against 46.5% in cash
Rents and house prices get discussed as one crisis. Held against each other and stripped of inflation, they spent most of the last decade moving apart — house prices pulling 23 points clear by 2022 — and then, in the space of three years, changed places entirely. This piece pairs ONS rent statistics with a repeat-sales index built from 1,668,222 matched sales of the same home, and finds a turning point that every decade-long average hides.