UK Economy

Long-run charts of the British economy — what a house costs, how fast prices are rising, how the stock market has done, and how housing compares with inflation. Each is interactive: hover or tap to read off any year, with notes on the moments that mattered.

• House prices

  The average UK house price since 1975, through the late-1980s boom, the early-90s crash and negative equity, the long 2000s climb, and the post-pandemic surge — in cash and in today’s money, then set against inflation, wages, gold, shares (FTSE 100 and S&P 500) and bonds, right down to what £10,000 invested would be worth.

• Inflation

  Consumer price inflation since 1989, the Bank of England’s 2% target, and the 2022–23 cost-of-living spike to a 40-year high.

• FTSE 100

  London’s blue-chip index from its 1984 launch at 1,000 through the dot-com peak, the 2008 crash, the COVID shock, and new highs near 10,000 after its best year since 2009.