Property and house prices are ridiculously high and the price of them and land is ludicrous, after all the land will be here well after we have gone and all our living relatives. I have paid for two houses, one my ex has and I have the other, my daughter will be quite wealthy when her parents have both gone. Yet there are people who can't afford to rent or buy which is an indictment of the way society is formed. There are loads who have several houses because they can afford it. Down here, second homes are a curse because they cause house prices beyond what young people can afford, especially those who live in Dorset. The same has happened in Devon and Cornwall and councils are at last doing things about it, like raising council tax. What they need is to stop anyone who wants to buy who isn't local to pay twice the asking price, and use the difference to fund social housing.