Still cheaper than living in London

And you get a three bed flat (with en-suite) rather than one bed flat.

Before we move on to the usual sandwich of fraudulent statistics and Amnesia's blood curdling mortgage terrors, I may as well go through the pointless routine of noting that if rent and sale prices are both higher over here, that counts against the argument that property prices are bubbly and inflated. The concept in play being "fair value".