Owning your own home

Aren't you in a relatively well-paid line of work?

On any objective analysis, ridiculously and absurdly so. The only basis on which I could possibly justify my hourly rate (which I'm not even supposed to know) is on the grounds that people are prepared to pay it. If I had bought a one bedroom flat in Zone Lots 20 years ago then no doubt I'd be climbing my way up the London property ladder with a crippling mortgage. But I didn't, and I'm not.

When I hear things like this I wonder who's buying the regular property in London...

You and me both. Mind you, Hampstead Garden Suburb may not constitute 'regular property'.

There can't be that many international money launderers surely.

I have this horrible feeling that there are. They're called 'bankers'.