The following websites provide some of the best house price data:

Nationwide Building Society provide a full set of Microsoft Exel historical house price data, using this all sorts of charts and graphs can be created.
here
Nationwide Building Society have a tool which allows you to find out how much
the value of a property has changed over a period of time. This tool can be
found here

Halifax Bank of Scotland provides the longest unbroken monthly data series of
any UK housing index which goes back to 1984. The data is available
here

The Land Registry provide house price data that may be more accurate than the
Halifax or Nationwide data as it is based on completed sales. Unfortunately the
data still does not include houses that have been sold at auction and
repossesions. The data set
can be found here.

The website mouseprice allows you to get a valuation of your home based on
historical data for your area, land registry sold prices and property for sale.

Find the previous prices of houses in the area that you live, or the area where
you are moving to.

The website rightmove.co.uk is the biggest online property portal in the UK.
rightmove also provide a tool that allows you to see the prices that homes
previously sold with data from the Land Registry and the Registry of Scotland

property-bee.com allows property buyers to track changes to property listings
that appear on rightmove. It is a plugin for the Firefox browser.

Nethouseprices allows you to see previous prices that houses have been sold for
using data provided by the Land Registry and the Registry of Scotland.

Find the value of houses that have sold in your area.

Using PropertyChimp which is an installable script for greasemonkey that runs on
Firefox it allows you to view previous price information on properties listed on
www.houseprices.co.uk. The prices are
shown in an extra column with the price and the percentage of increase or
decrease since the previous sales.

If you are interested in house prices in other parts of the world, then the
Global Property Guide collates all the major indexes in to graph form.

At thisismoney.co.uk you will find plenty of house price data and a round up of
all the house price indices.

The Financial Times publish their own house price index which is released every
month.

The House Prices site gives you access to house price data back to the year
2000.