When climate change gets bad enough that the world goes mad max there will be plenty of houses to choose from. That's assuming the SHTF in your lifetime and you survive.
Aside from that, no.
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Depends if the next pandemic kills 50% of the world's population.
It's all based on supply and demand. There is not enough housing for everyone to have one at a price they can afford. The price depends entirely on what the wealthiest buyers are prepared to pay, or rather what a bank is prepared to lend them. It is nothing to do with how much the land or bricks and mortar are worth.
The only way you'll get a price drop is if the amount of properties go up or the demand drops.
We've had long periods of <1% interest rates. We've normalised 40 year mortgages. We've invented "shared ownership" schemes and "help for first time buyers". None of this has bought the prices down. It's done the opposite and blown them into the stratosphere.
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Either the housing market will crash after some new laws are applied that specifically target landlords.
Or the price of buying houses will catch up with the cost of building them.
When either of those will happen, I do not know.
Will we ever experience a majority Greens government in our lifetime?
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Yes. Once we have coordinating unions and global strikes, we make the rules.