What is the deal with our obsession with house prices? Is it right that a basic need has been turned into a speculative investment?

Are rocketing house prices real or just inflation by another name?

Property expert Dr Cameron Murray was one of the only economists to correctly predict a 20% surge in house prices would occur during the Covid years. He returned to Discernable to lay out future trajectories of housing prices and rents and explain what we are seeing in 2024.

https://www.fresheconomicthinking.com/p/the-great-housing-hijack