House selling price pre 2000

chateauneufdupape

Hi, How do I find out what price a house sold for pre 2000? I have tried several free internet services but they only go back to 2000.

PasturesNew

That is because it was April 2000 when the law changed and every house price was available from the Land Registry.

Before that you can only guess or do some hard research.

You can use tools like the Nationwide historice house price calculator, which takes sweeping %ages across a region and applies it over X years to a price you type in on a known date. These calculators are obviously flawed.

You can try to contact your local newspaper and visit their archive section and manually go through every old newspaper's property pages (assuming they have archived these too) until you find a property on the same road.

The only other way is to actually "know" by asking who owned it, or speaking to neighbours who have been there years and MIGHT remember.