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>easy access to loaned capital has perversed the connection between wages and house prices a bit Only to a certain extent. Loaned capital is still limited by w
by gragas 10y ago
>easy access to loaned capital has perversed the connection between wages and house prices a bit
Only to a certain extent. Loaned capital is still limited by wages (no one is going to give a $1 million mortgage to someone who makes $40k per year). But again, I don't think wages has hardly anything to do with house prices; it's all about supply and demand. Sure, most people might only be willing to pay 1/3 their salary on housing. That doesn't mean that the price for housing is that number. If a huge supply of housing for less than that price floods the market, then why would everyone continue to pay 1/3 their salary for housing when they could pay 1/4 or 1/6?