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>Further still I think many people's wages have kept pace with inflation. Inflation:
243,000/177,000-1=37% House:
274,000/177,000-1=54% In 2007 the yearly wage for a 22-29 year old was 20,000 pounds, in 2021 it was 26,000: https://www.statista.com/statistics/802196/full-time-annual-... 26,000/20.000-1= 30% If you try with an higher income, let's say 30-39, respectively 26,000 and 33,000 33,000/26,000-1= 27% I think we can say that average houses have appeciated almost double average wages in these 15 years, which is the essence of the crazyness about houses being not affordable to most, and - as you said - it's not like in 2007 houses were cheap, data for a longer period show even more how young people then could actually buy a house and now it has become impossible: https://landregistry.data.gov.uk/app/ukhpi/browse?from=1990-... |
> Further still I don't think many people's wages have kept pace with inflation
But yeah either way - houses were expensive, and have only gotten more unaffordable as inflation outpaced wage growth and house prices outpaced both. Wild.