It may be the topic that everyone around the table at the dinner party is secretly obsessed with but it appears that actually talking about the value of your home is simply not the done thing.
The subject has been named as one of the top ten taboos that people find it uncomfortable to discuss.
Figures show that one in six would rather not open up about their worries over whether their house price is falling or increasing, even with their closest friends.
The new list of top taboos is dominated by sex and money, pushing politics and religion – the traditional topics to avoid – towards the bottom.
Sex life is the number one subject that is off limits – named by 32% - followed by infidelity on 31% and the state of one’s finances on 28%.
The potentially awkward discussion of one’s salary comes in fourth with 25%, and the rather private matters of family planning at 19% and relationship with one’s current partner at 18%.
According to the poll of 2012 respondents for O2, 16% did not want to discuss the value of their properties – despite the topic being a middle class obsession.
Making up the rest of the list were politics on 13%, serious illness on 9% and religion on 7%.
The figures also suggested that friends seem to be favoured over family as the people who are most trusted to discuss the taboo subjects.
While 39% said all the areas were openly discussed with friends, only 26% said they would discuss them with relatives.
O2 spokesman David Johnson said the figures showed how in fact many Britons were now prepared to talk about some topics that were previously kept under wraps.
He said: “We’ve found that talking more openly and frankly has become a feature of everyday British life.
“Where once we were considered reserved and uptight when it comes to our topics of conversation, the nation is now more open and ready to talk about things that would once perhaps have made previous generations blush.”
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