As far as I can tell your second sentence is a non sequitur isn't it?
But no matter. My posts are littered with them.
When I use the word unfair I'm referring to the housing market in this country.
It is most certainly not a free market by the strictest definitions of a free market.*
I'm not inclined to give all the reasons because many of them should be obvious for one reason .
Just one though.The issue of the green belt and of brown belt sites.
Anyone who owns a house in the green belt is going to very determinedly oppose any change in the law with regard to use of the green belt.
But even when builders find sites that are suitable for housing, the residents ,who naturally are all home owners, protest and too often succeed in preventing any building from being carried out.Or force the building of fewer properties.
Now this isn't really an issue in London of course but it is exacerbated by foreigners being allowed to buy houese in London and by private landlords buying up houses.
The fact is supply cannot keep up with demand while those who own property do all they can to prevent anything from being done about it.
As for me listing places that are nicer than London !i would have though that the fact that many houses in London are unoccupied would suggest that the owners have found somewhere better to live.
Of course they may just want to be near their mothers in some cases.....
* I confess that I made a calculated guess there.I stand to be corrected . ( Unlike house prices
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