Yet GDP is lower than the peak in 2008.
It also remained 2.4percentt lower than the peak reached during the boom of the late 1990s.
But that's quite a bit lower than the peak of 26.5% in the 12 months to January.
According to the EIG figures, the average cost of a house sold at auction now stands at £114,208, 34% lower than the peak last summer.
The average sale price of nearly $1.3 million last quarter was 24.8 percent lower than the peak of $1.72 million in the first quarter of 2008.
It is the second highest for any 12 month period, only slightly lower than the peak figure of 320,000 recorded in the year ending June 2005.
Credit to the manufacturing sector has been cut sharply, with lending to firms that make chemicals and electronics 30% lower than the peak.
According to the DiNapoli, Wall Street's total bonus pool for 2015 came to $25bn, down 6% from 2014 and 27% lower than the peak in 2006, when the average bonus hit $191,360.
Cruise prices are lower in winter and you can take the opportunity to add a city break where you join or leave the ship, too, when air fares will be lower than the peak months.
Last night investors had to pay $856,000 to insure $10m of Glencore's five year bonds against defaulting – just a fraction lower than the peak of its previous market crisis a few months ago.
About 359,000 applications for asylum were made in industrialized countries last year, down 5 percent from the previous year and 42 percent lower than the peak in 2001, the agency said in its latest annual report on asylum trends.
