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Is it rapidly increasing? First two links in google show it grows about 0.33% per year now, which doesn't look too much and lower than peak in 2010 around 0.84% A bigger issue IMHO is an internal migration from former industrial areas to the London commuter belt and South England more broadly without adequate supply of housing (which is a huge boon for real estate investors and hard to believe they don't lobby for red taping). Houses up north are cheaper but equally unaffordable because wages there are low and declining if adjusted to inflation.