Sadly, I think you're right and I'm not a troll. Some posters here don't like to open their eyes to what has happened to house prices in the last 7 years. We all hoped for a correction, every year it seemed like it should come, but it didn't. 2014 is the price crash year, or maybe 2015, meanwhile all our ignorant peers have bought and are paying down their mortgages whilst we continue to fund our landlords lifestyle whom we all despise. I think we are a collection of tightarses craving a bargain, but at what cost. The only solution for me is to emigrate, life is too short to wait for something we have no control over.