# The price of money

> Twenty-six years of Bank Rate, under every house price in this atlas.

- Category: Money
- Cadence: monthly
- Status: Published on a monthly cadence.
- Dataset key: `bank-rate`
- Source: [Bank of England](https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/boeapps/database/)
- Licence: Bank of England terms of use
- Canonical page: [https://londongraph.com/g/the-price-of-money](https://londongraph.com/g/the-price-of-money)
- Machine-readable record: [https://londongraph.com/data/the-price-of-money](https://londongraph.com/data/the-price-of-money)

## Methodology

The official Bank Rate, monthly average, from the Bank of England's statistical database. Price and rate are the same story told twice: a rate rise does not change what a home costs, it changes what the mortgage on it costs, and the second decides whether anyone can buy.

## Visualisations

- [Trend](https://londongraph.com/g/the-price-of-money): Twenty-six years of Bank Rate, under every house price in this atlas.
- [Change](https://londongraph.com/g/the-price-of-money?view=change): Show the change from each preceding published period.

## Citation guidance

Attribute the original publisher named above and identify LondonGraph as the visualisation and methodology layer. Do not describe live values as a historical census, and do not present placeholder values as observations.