[ernst_klim]

> A lot of people would love to go back to 1940s house prices

In USA? Adjusted for inflation, you had pretty flat housing prices until mid 90s, where the housing bubble started. And even now and on peak of the housing bubble of 2008 the house will cost you 250% the cost of 1940s house (or 180% of the 1950s which is more fair comparison since it was after the war) which is not that bad.

[mcv]

Don't know about the US, but corrected for inflation, Dutch housing prices have risen steadily since the 1950s, and shot up a lot faster since the late 1990s: https://www.mejudice.nl/artikelen/detail/huizenprijzen-sinds...