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Housing: Prices

Volume 503: debated on Wednesday 6 January 2010

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer of 8 December 2009, Official Report, column 305W, on housing: prices, what the average sale price of a home in a rural area was in each of the last 20 quarters. (306907)

[holding answer 14 December 2009]:The average sale price of a home in a rural area in England for each of the last 20 quarters is presented as follows:

Rural local authorities (£)

2004 Q3

200,243

2004 Q4

195,975

2005 Q1

193,143

2005 Q2

194,136

2005 Q3

204,101

2005 Q4

200,898

2006 Q1

198,087

2006 Q2

206,877

2006 Q3

220,529

2006 Q4

215,846

2007 Q1

215,174

2007 Q2

221,059

2007 Q3

236,318

2007 Q4

230,787

2008 Q1

224,794

2008 Q2

224,230

2008 Q3

232,640

2008 Q4

211,976

2009 Q1

200,579

2009 Q2

205,361

Notes:

1. Local authorities that are classed as rural under the DEFRA rural codes have been included and local authorities classed as urban by DEFRA have been filtered out.

2. Data for 2009 Q2 are provisional.

3. Figures are neither seasonally adjusted nor adjusted to take into account the differing mix of properties sold in each period, so comparisons between quarters are not recommended.

Source:

Land Registry.