
Could house prices in Birmingham and Manchester really grow by 30%?
UK cities have seen house prices rise by an average of 5% over the past year to reach £211,200 in January, with Edinburgh, Birmingham and Manchester seeing the strongest gains – and this regional trend is set to continue. Since 2009, London house prices have soared by 86% as the property market there attracted billions of pounds of domestic and overseas investment post-financial crisis, but this past year’s results from the Hometrack UK Cities House Price Index have registere