How House Prices Have Exploded, As Told By Old Episodes Of "Location Location Location"

    Kirstie and Phil are on a mission to make you feel incredibly depressed.

    You know Location Location Location, don't you?

    Is it a new-ish show? Nope. Of course not.

    Take this house in Balham, for instance. In 2002 you could get your hands on this first floor flat for only...

    2013 - a first-floor property in a nearby road? Over £479,000!

    Then there's this one bedroom flat in Hackney. In an episode in the year 2000, the place cost £107,000.

    A flat sold on the same road today? You can get one for...

    How about this house in Acton?

    A similar house in Acton was sold for around £445,000 in 2006. It is now on the market for...

    To Wandsworth now. In 2002 they featured this property valued at £195,000.

    A one bedroom flat nearby sold earlier this year for...

    It's even worse if you've got a bit more cash and want to live somewhere nice. In 2002 this was...

    Ten years on and a similar property now costs...

    Meanwhile, also in 2002, there was this 3 bedroom flat in Maida Vale...

    A flat for sale now in the same block of houses? YOU CAN NOW PURCHASE IT FOR AN AFFORDABLE...

    Then there's this flat in Maida Vale, also from a 2002 episode.

    A similar house in the same block of houses went for £925,000 in October last year. A three bedroom in the same block was sold recently for £1,175,000.

    Good luck house hunting everybody.