The only claim I made about "driving the price up" was that local economic growth drove the value up. Ie, the productive value of the land increased because the

The only claim I made about "driving the price up" was that local economic growth drove the value up. Ie, the productive value of the land increased because the local economy grew (this includes living, since everyone but remote workers have dependencies between home and work locations). This isn't incompatible with supply and demand at all, and from your comment, you don't appear to have understood my comment at all.