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Average UK house prices from the year you were born to today

How times and price tags have changed
1963: President Kennedy is assassinated
1964: The Beatles take the world by storm
1965: protestors march against the Vietnam War
1966: fashion gets fun
1967: Twiggy enters the scene
1968: Martin Luther King is assassinated
1969: Neil Armstrong lands on the moon
1970: Jimi Hendrix and The Who rock the Isle of Wight Festival
1971: Greenpeace is born
1972: King Edward VIII dies
1973: Sydney Opera House opens
1974: Richard Nixon resigns after the Watergate scandal
1975: Microsoft is founded
1976: first commercial flights on Concorde
1977: Elvis Presley dies
1978: Space Invaders launches
1979: Margaret Thatcher is elected
1980: US boycott of Moscow Olympics
1981: Lady Diana marries Prince Charles
1982: the UK and Argentina go to war over the Falklands
1983: Mario Bros. game released
1984: Band Aid
1985: first version of Windows is released
1986: Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station explodes
1987: US stock market crashes
1988: NASA resumes space shuttle flights
1989: the fall of the Berlin Wall
1990: Nelson Mandela is freed
1991: the birth of the internet
1992: Euro Disney opens in France
1993: Tsunami hits Japan
1994: Channel Tunnel opens
1995: Bill Clinton visits Northern Ireland
1996: Dolly the sheep is cloned
1997: Princess Diana dies
1998: Russian banks collapse
1999: global population exceeds six billion
2000: Concorde crashes while taking off from Paris
2001: World Trade Center attacked
2002: Queen Elizabeth celebrates her Golden Jubilee
2003: the second Iraq war
2004: Boxing Day tsunami hits Asia
2005: Benedict XVI becomes the new Pope
2006: New Horizon Space Probe is launched by NASA
2007: global financial crisis begins
2008: Citigroup reports $9.8 billion loss
2009: Barack Obama becomes US president
2010: BP oil rig explodes in the Gulf of Mexico
2011: Arab Spring protests
2012: Felix Baumgartner breaks the sound barrier
2013: NSA secret surveillance program revealed
2014: Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 goes missing
2015: Princess Charlotte is born
2016: Britain votes to leave the EU
2017: England wins the 'World Cup'
2018: Prince Harry marries Meghan Markle at Windsor Castle
2019: Paris' Notre Dame Cathedral catches fire
2020: Coronavirus causes global lockdowns
2021: Joe Biden becomes the 46th President of the United States
2022: the death of Queen Elizabeth II
2023: the Barbie movie is released
2024: Labour wins the general election
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How times and price tags have changed

Year to year, the housing market can feel like something of a rollercoaster as prices rise and fall, but that's nothing compared to the dramatic shift in property value over the decades. 

We've looked back to see how house prices have changed each year since 1963, along with key events that defined each 12-month period.

Click or scroll on to find out how much you’d have paid for a property mid-way through the last century... 

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Alanna Lynott

15 October 2024

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