Die Immobilienpreise sind mittlerweile so hoch, dass sich 90 % der britischen Verdiener den Kauf nicht leisten können

> The data shows that the median house price in England reached £290,000 in 2024, representing 7.7 times the median full-time salary of £37,600.

Who is buying a house on a single median salary apart from in the very cheapest areas?

They should use more realistic assumptions here. Like what a couple with two average salaries could buy. 

Presumably single earners. Most people now buy in a couple.

Then they wonder why no one has kids? 90% can’t afford to sacrifice one salary of a dual income household.

Of course, successive governments failed to replenish the affordable housing stock. This, coupled with mass migration, has led to a preventable situation where the demand for housing now far outweighs the supply.

The problem is that our government no longer views housing as a family ‚home‘ but as an economic asset.

The government must go back to basics and re-establish the sentimental meaning of what a house truly is. It’s a ‚home‘.

Recognising this will provide us a pathway towards stability, both within our internal lives through providing an opportunity for social mobility. But also within the wider political climate, as it will help reduce the reliance on immigration.

„increasingly unaffordable“ whilst in the same article it references the ONS which says affordability has been improving for the last few years.

The article assumes only single people would buy and that single people are buying the average house rather than a smaller and cheaper house/flat than a large family.

Churnalism.

There’s loads of affordable houses available but people don’t want to live in those areas. Lots of people want to move into their ready made forever home.

I bought as a single buyer in Leeds on low wage £24k but I had to buy a little 2 bed flat in Belle Isle, which is known locally as an area to avoid. I got my head down and lived in it for 7 years and built up some equity, sold it as a profit and now I live in my dream home … but I’ve worked with so many younger people over the years unwilling to do what I did. They want the new builds, the instagram gardens, to live in Chapel Allerton (posh bit of Leeds), you offer your experience and advice and you get looked at like you’re insane or it’s suggested that I had it easier because I bought a few years earlier, it was still just as hard to save a deposit and to get a mortgage as a single person.

Demand has exceeded supply for decades…. With only a gcse in economics there Is a chance anyone could see the way things are and promote policies that could do something about it over the coming years…. Alas we have a current Chancellor of the exchequer who from what I can tell worked counter service in a bank and lied in their cv so there really is no hope…. Good luck everyone

How much longer are we just going to pretend this charade is fine? It’s literally destroying life in the UK and across the Western world