The chart below shows information about changes in average house prices in five different cities between 1990 and 2002 compared with the average house prices in 1989.
The bar chart compares the cost of an average house in five major cities over a period of 13 years from 1989.
We can see that house prices fell overall between 1990 and 1995, but most of the cities saw rising prices between 1996 and 2002. London experienced by far the greatest changes in house prices over the 13-year period.
Over the 5 years after 1989, the cost of average homes in Tokyo and London dropped by around 7%, while New York house prices went down by 5%. By contrast, prices rose by approximately 2% in both Madrid and Frankfurt.
Between 1996 and 2002, London house prices jump...
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Attribute Value Ideal
Score: 7.5 out of 9
Category: Very Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 8 10
No. of Words: 164 200
No. of Characters: 717 1000
No. of Different Words: 86 100
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 3.579 4.0
Average Word Length: 4.372 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.209 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 48 60
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 25 50
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 11 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 6 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 20.5 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.205 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.5 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.493 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.729 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.149 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 4