Owning your own home

It is a wonderful part of London with a genuine community, great schools, and brilliant transport links. Furthermore, it is chock-full of the sort of housing stock beloved of the aspirational middle-classes. But prices are completely fucking stupid now, and there is no way on God's green earth that we could afford to live there if we were buying now. Sad to be leaving but we could never have 'traded up' into the sort of family home we wanted. I can't believe it will go on, but then demand still massively outstrips supply, there is only a certain amount of period property (see aspirational middle-classes comment), interest rates are frighteningly low etc...