London became the rest of the startup capital

Re:London became the rest of the startup capital by dukeyukey on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @06:36PM (#46803357)

Housing is super expensive, but even that is coming down. Transport is a bit expensive, bit it's fine. Everything else is pretty reasonable!

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Re:London became the rest of the startup capital by johnisgood on Thursday January 29, 2026 @05:33AM (#46808235)

Is it really coming down? Only in London, UK, Europe, or more or less globally? Where are you getting this from?

I am not sure everything else is reasonable if groceries alone have been going up by as much as 100% throughout the world, heh. Maybe on an SWE salary it is reasonable, sure.

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Re:London became the rest of the startup capital by gpderetta on Thursday January 29, 2026 @05:41AM (#46808309)

I was going to reply to grandparent that only flat prices are coming down because of rising service charge costs, and being hard to mortgage because of cladding issues.

But after some research it is indeed true that house prices are, to a lesser extent, also going down, at least in real terms, if not nominal.

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Re:London became the rest of the startup capital by rowanajmarshall on Thursday January 29, 2026 @06:22AM (#46808694)

I actually wrote a webapp to show this, check it out - https://housepricedashboard.co.uk/

London house prices are falling quite a lot in real terms.

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Re:London became the rest of the startup capital by graemep on Thursday January 29, 2026 @07:16AM (#46809154)

Nice work. Have you considered add real terms changes?

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Re:London became the rest of the startup capital by rowanajmarshall on Thursday January 29, 2026 @07:29AM (#46809266)

Already a feature, you can switch between nominal or inflation adjusted in the Change View panel -https://housepricedashboard.co.uk/?tab=change&start=2014&end...

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Re:London became the rest of the startup capital by johnisgood on Thursday January 29, 2026 @06:41AM (#46808888)

I am getting DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN.

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Re:London became the rest of the startup capital by rowanajmarshall on Thursday January 29, 2026 @07:02AM (#46809063)

Ah shoot, it's not .com, it's .co.uk. So https://housepricedashboard.co.uk.

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Re:London became the rest of the startup capital by gpderetta on Thursday January 29, 2026 @07:59AM (#46809604)

ERR_CONNECTION_RESET. HN hug of death?

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Re:London became the rest of the startup capital by gpderetta on Thursday January 29, 2026 @03:15PM (#46815935)

Probably office firewall

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Re:London became the rest of the startup capital by johnisgood on Thursday January 29, 2026 @08:45AM (#46810118)

This is pretty good! Nice.

Have you ever considered adding more countries?

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Re:London became the rest of the startup capital by graemep on Thursday January 29, 2026 @05:43AM (#46808327)

In multiple UK regions, but the most expensive ones and London the most.

Its coming down but from a very high level in London.

I do not know about other countries, but movements do tend to be wide spread (at least across similar economies). We are seeing higher interest rates in a lot of countries and they are the main determinant of the multiple of income properties sell at.

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