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Given that London house prices are a function of supply and demand, if everyone on £500k did that then I personally would be a lot better off.

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Alas, I suspect supply will be very carefully managed to ensure that voters in the UK do not have their main asset devalued over the next 10 to 15 years or so.

After that, enough younger people will be renting for the balance to flip and the price correction to occur.

Whilst population continues to rise, you'll be waiting a long time for your "correction".

What % of average wage do you think people will want to pay for housing? What is the limit? There has to be one.

Average wage has very little to do with it, at least when it comes to London. People there pay a lot more than the rest of the country, but they're earning a lot more too. And even within London the same kind of logic applies.

So what happens when you have no teachers, no retail staff, no police, no ambulance and no refuse collectors?

Really: there has to be a limit.

Partly those people's wages rise. But more commonly they live elsewhere. Those people's wages have no connection to the house prices in zone 1, because those people live further out and commute.

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