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As a measure of housing affordability, there\u2019s a lot more to what influences property prices than just household income levels according to Stuart Wemyss. \u00a0 He argues that if it is a meaningful measure, then property can\u2019t continue to grow at a faster rate than incomes.\u00a0 But, despite the scary headlines about how unaffordable property is, people continue to buy and sell and push prices higher despite earning less. So is it all that important?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As a measure of housing affordability, there\u2019s a lot more to what influences property prices than just household income levels according to Stuart Wemyss. \u00a0 He argues that if it is a meaningful measure, then property can\u2019t continue to grow at a faster rate than…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176692473,"featured_media":35741,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[32,34,10,11,13,36,142,22,24,25,27,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buying-a-property-topic","category-finance-topic","category-kevin-turner-sponsored-channels","category-kevin-update","category-latest-story","category-property-investment-topic","category-real-estate-talk","category-research-topic","category-shows","category-sponsored-channels","category-trends-topic","category-video","post_format-post-format-video"],"yoast_head":"\nHandbrake on prices - 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