Where Can You Afford to Buy a House? Interactive Map

carslet

Very depressing for people, who work very hard and will never be able to afford a house of their own.

wotsthat

carslet wrote: »

Very depressing for people, who work very hard and will never be able to afford a house of their own.

Was the interactive map predicting the future?

danothy

ukcarper wrote: »

Would they not need access to the the landregistry data base or do landregistry publish figures never seen them. Perhaps the guardian should say how they got median figure.

Land registry publish price paid data with full postcodes. It's not exactly difficult to calculate the median of the sold prices for each postcode prefix for any given time slot. For example, in the year to date, N22 had 312 sales and a median sale price of £400k. It'd be trivial to write a script to calculate that for each postcode prefix.

carslet

wotsthat wrote: »

Was the interactive map predicting the future?

No not at all, but it has been that way for many years now, no matter how many people expect or hope for it changing

kabayiri

A certain R Abramovich has been on the phone to me just now.

He says the site is flawed - the salary input box is waaaay too small.

ukcarper

danothy wrote: »

Land registry publish price paid data with full postcodes. It's not exactly difficult to calculate the median of the sold prices for each postcode prefix for any given time slot. For example, in the year to date, N22 had 312 sales and a median sale price of £400k. It'd be trivial to write a script to calculate that for each postcode prefix.

No but time consuming for whole country going back 20 years in your example over 6000 (312 x 20 )entries in one area to be looked up and entered. Then median of sold prices in any year is fairy crude.

ruggedtoast

This just serves to show what a complete lotto win housing has been for the favoured generation.

I am on holiday in Europe at the moment.

I tell you, it just makes me so angry to see boomers and euro boomers living it up in Club Med all inclusive while hard working Gen X families have to fight with booking.com to afford a weeks half board 3 star in Torremelinos, eating the dolmades of resentment from the rude supermarket, on plastic furniture every evening.

Then by the time the boomers charter flight has landed they've made another ten grand on their houses. It's so unfair.

ukcarper

Here's an example of how much use this map in East Harling Norfolk you can get a nice two bed cottage for £160k in Farnborough Hants the cheapest comparable property is £260k but they are both in same affordability colour.

ukcarper

ruggedtoast wrote: »

This just serves to show what a complete lotto win housing has been for the favoured generation.

I am on holiday in Europe at the moment.

I tell you, it just makes me so angry to see boomers and euro boomers living it up in Club Med all inclusive while hard working Gen X families have to fight with booking.com to afford a weeks half board 3 star in Torremelinos, eating the dolmades of resentment from the rude supermarket, on plastic furniture every evening.

Then by the time the boomers charter flight has landed they've made another ten grand on their houses. It's so unfair.

did your house not make anything?

cells

ruggedtoast wrote: »

This just serves to show what a complete lotto win housing has been for the favoured generation.

I am on holiday in Europe at the moment.

I tell you, it just makes me so angry to see boomers and euro boomers living it up in Club Med all inclusive while hard working Gen X families have to fight with booking.com to afford a weeks half board 3 star in Torremelinos, eating the dolmades of resentment from the rude supermarket, on plastic furniture every evening.

Then by the time the boomers charter flight has landed they've made another ten grand on their houses. It's so unfair.

but do you own an ipod, i never had one of those as a kid so lets call it even