United Kingdom

Economic Freedom Rating, 5-Yr Change - United Kingdom Compared to Continent

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Bosnia & H.	32.31%
Romania	21.55%
Turkey	17.08%
Slovak Rep.	16.54%
Belarus	12.42%
Albania	11.51%
France	10.46%
Bulgaria	10.38%
Denmark	8.24%
Malta	8.03%
Hungary	6.67%
Belgium	4.94%
Slovenia	4.93%
Iceland	4.10%
Latvia	3.56%
Austria	3.52%
Netherlands	2.94%
UK	2.67%
Norway	2.60%
Croatia	2.49%
Greece	2.11%
Germany	2.03%
Ireland	1.76%
Macedonia	1.72%
Lithuania	1.65%
Czech Rep.	1.56%
Finland	1.54%
Spain	1.27%
Switzerland	0.91%
Sweden	0.53%
Estonia	0.05%
Ukraine	-0.04%
Portugal	-0.99%
Russia	-1.79%
Moldova	-2.65%
Cyprus	-2.75%
Italy	-2.85%
Poland	-3.77%
Luxembourg	-5.93%

United Kingdom: Economic freedom index, 5-year change

Increased economic freedom is strongly associated with high GDP growth, and therefore with rises in residential property prices. Changes in a country’s score on the Heritage Foundation’s freedom index are calculated by the Global Property Guide to produce a 5-point rating:

• Greatly Improved
• Improved
• Nuetral
• Worse
• Much Worse

Source: Calculated using figures from The Heritage Foundation and the Wall Street Journal

The United Kingdom (UK) has among the best housing statistics in the world. The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister is the source of official house price time-series, with annual, quarterly and monthly data available stretching back for aeons. Nationwide, Hometrack, the Halifax, and many other commercial organizations also publish quality UK house price time-series, annual, quarterly, and monthly.

The rents situation is much less good, the only figures being from the Association of Registered Letting Agents (ARLA).