The decade that was
Does the decade end in 2019 or 2020?
Not sure, but here are the 10-year UK housing price figures.
No surprise to see London and Cambridge topping the compound annual price growth charts in Britain over the past 10 years, with Bristol being another University city nestling alongside Cambridge.
At the other end of the spectrum Aberdeen (oil) and Belfast in Ireland experienced negative growth.
More recently, Manchester in the north-west has performed strongly.
Source: hometrack
Over the year to November 2019, city house prices (+3.4 per cent) continued to outperform the national figures following patterns of urbanisation.