Interest rates up 0.5%!

[Doucas]

Good for you. A 0.5% hike isn't going to hurt you - we were getting hikes of 2 and 3%.

The 2 sites you linked, well. The Guardian is the portent of doom and despair, and the other one has been predicting the crash of house prices for 20 odd years. We ain't all going to burn, starve, freeze. Just enjoy life, and stop reading all the depressing sh*t..

So are you saying the sources are wrong? Were house prices on average in 1976 not £11,500? Are house prices on average today not £290,000?