House prices are a national sport in the UK. A website has been set up called http://www.nethouseprices.com/ that got 50 millions of visitors in 2004.
By entering a UK address or postcode, you can find the land transaction for the past 5 years... After a few years of growth of more than 20%, it seems that the market is now calming done, partly due to the interest rate increase in 2004.