The UK, and London especially, is home to Europe’s most expensive housing market after Monaco. For a generation of young people who have watched home ownership slip out of reach, the thought of prices going down significantly is inconceivable.
But in a period of inconceivables – a global pandemic, Christmas turkey shortages, Kanye West releasing his album when he said he would – could house prices be next?
I asked Professor Danny Dorling, social geographer at the University of Oxford.
Is it me or does everyone love saying they bought at the wrong time? We are British, no one is going to say: “I bought at exactly the right time and made an absolute fortune!”
Someone said that to me last week. They could be right. There’s a posh, narrow house
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