UK House Price Inflation (12-Month)

## What this measures

The 12-month change in the UK average house price.

## Why it matters

It is the headline number for the UK housing market.

## How to read it

Compare with wage growth (uk.awe.total_growth): house prices rising faster than pay worsen affordability.

## What it does not say

It is revised for a year after release.

## Source

HM Land Registry, UK House Price Index (produced with the Office for National Statistics, Registers of Scotland and Land and Property Services Northern Ireland), United Kingdom, all property types. Palanor downloads it every day; each release revises the previous 12 months.

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