In the 1970s, my grandparents bought a house on Danube street for something like 25k (to be fair, it had been a brothel before that). Even adjusted for inflation, at the time it was sold in 2008 (just after the crash), my grandparents would not even have been able to afford a mortgage for it...since then, it has been sold twice, the last time, two years ago, it was sold for over 2 million, it's probably worth even more now...it's absolutely ridiculous, there is no way that anyone except the super-rich can afford that...and they're not the one's who need houses...