@maneco64, its the same here in Ireland. We had a property crash in 2007 and now either everyone has large debts for negative equity housing or the banks won't lend to the young as they were burnt badly. Also US vulture funds have large volumes of property and are holding out for tax incentives if they keep the property for 7 years. So they are not releasing the properties for sale or rent and the market is also been choked. They are even that bad that they are using fire regulation loopholes to try to push out long standing tenants out of buildings. No morals...