From: Daytona 
Newsgroups: uk.finance
Subject: Re: House Buying Myths
Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 18:52:05 +0100

On Wed, 31 May 2006 09:58:15 +0100, Jeremy Sanders
 wrote:

>It still shows that house price rises cannot be taken for granted over even
>10 year periods.

Decade long declines have been a feature of the UK property market.

Longest real house price declines - 

Peak    Surpassed       Years 

1970    1983            13 
1971    1985            14 
1972    1987            15 
1973    1985            12 
1974    1985            11 
1975    1982            7 

1987    1997            10 
1988    1999            11 
1989    2000            11 
1990    1999            9 
1991    1998            7 

Daytona