Comment by madaxe_again | Hacker News Reader

Comment by madaxe_again | Hacker News Reader

This is just beautiful - lovely visualisations that make patterns in the data pop out at you. High resolution point map is at https://jasmcole.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/countrymap_nofi... - for some reason the image in the article isn't linked.

One interesting one is that London appears to be the only city in England and Wales where the inner city has higher property values than the suburbs - but we already knew that - post-industrial urban rot is taking time to heal. This also illustrates the steady growth of conurbations as the author observes - the rich one in the south-east, and the poor one in the north-west.

Also - what on earth happened in London in January 2010? That's a "market adjustment" if I've ever seen one. Perhaps a single large landlord dumped their portfolio...

At this point, London may as well be a city-state enclave.

> may as well be a city-state enclave.

It's had one of those for a very long time. The City of London is historically a corporation run largely by trade guilds. The City (as locals know it - London doesn't have a downtown) has its own rules.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_London

Several in fact. One of my favourite parts of London is middle Temple, which for a period was a walled city, with its own army, that defend the rights of its lawyers to ... do lawyering. The 13th century was interesting down by the strand.

Right, and one of this sweet little cluster of neighbouring cities was Westminster, which ended up running the largest empire in history. And now, a hundred years later, arguably the City of London is more important than Westminster.

what on earth happened in London in January 2010?

There were stamp duty changes in 2010. So for the right priced house you'd have paid signifcantly less tax on 1/1/2010 than on 31/12/2009.

That graph does seem to have a lot of "jumps" though, I'd be interested to know why. It may just be an artifact of how often different areas report?

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