The longer mortgages are one of the biggest causes of the increase in prices.
Paying the same per month, the buyers can pay more for a house. Thus all the prices rise.
And the govern-cements blocking new home builds to keep values high.
Unfortunately, prices are about to crash as demographics are crashing.
Soon it will be less people than available houses. 1250 dwellings per 1000 inhabitants
RE: Young people struggling to buy their own homes in the UK...