Housing affordability 'at seven-year high'

[Moscow Mule]

Anyone know of a decent well balanced house price sold chart ? (ie, sold prices that are not decided by estate agents).

zoopla uses land registry sold prices and a bit of jiggery pokery.

[mudskipper]

Anyone know of a decent well balanced house price sold chart ? (ie, sold prices that are not decided by estate agents).
I'm hearing house prices dropped since 2007 but have been rising again and wonder where we stand on average compared to 2006/2007 etc. I'm especially interested in prices now compared to around Jun 2006(2nd quarter '06).
My perfect property has come up which was a new build in June 2006. Now it's second hand so a drop in value has to be priced in as new builds command a premium, but the asking price today is only 10grand down on what it was bought for in June 2006, which in percentage terms is pretty small at only a 2.6% discount to the June 2006 price. Would it be fair to think the market is down at least 15% average outside of london since June 2006, with a further 5% discount if I'm lucky (as it is no longer new build)?

Rightmove do house prices - I think they're actual selling prices. So you can see what similar properties are getting.

[SuperZ]

zoopla uses land registry sold prices and a bit of jiggery pokery.

Cheers, that site's worth a look. It estimates the price should be 6grand lower than the current asking price and it's peak price was about 90grand higher than the current estimate but I was hoping for more like 50-60 grand lower today. Still worth keeping an eye on it, I see some properties have been up for sale for 2+ years now so lots of potential negotiations on price me thinks.

[Moscow Mule]

Rightmove do house prices - I think they're actual selling prices. So you can see what similar properties are getting.

If you can find a mate who is an estate agent, and they pay for Rightmove plus, you can generate a report of all the sold prices etc for a postcode. Not available to the general public though.