A central London house for £20,000 – how prices looked in 1910 | UK news | The Guardian
One hundred years ago – when the map of the world was painted red, the British empire was at its zenith and the City of London was the hub of global commerce – you could buy a house in the centre of the capital for £14,000, according to records placed online for the first time today.
The publication of the first volumes of the 1910 land tax valuations – the so-called Lloyd George Domesday survey, which followed the Liberal chancellor of the exchequer's great fiscal reforms – reveals the house prices of 100 years ago.
You could have bought a house in Chancery Lane for £11,000 ....
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