>Yes it does, and I'm tired of pretending that it doesn't. It doesn't, because the housing market is not the "free" market like the one for commodities, but is

>Yes it does, and I'm tired of pretending that it doesn't. It doesn't, because the housing market is not the "free" market like the one for commodities, but is an asset heavily manipulated by government, banks, NIBYs and institutional investors to maintain a steady increase in value of their investments above inflation, and incidentally above wage growth. The bigger the growth of their investments, the better for them.