Reality is, it is not a so called 'free market" based on supply and demand here. It is free market in respect to money laundering practises, foreign money, scamming realtors, banks etc. and profiting of those controlled market circumstances. If it would be a free market, the prices would never have gone so far up, and would only be 3 to 5 times the average joe and jill's income. Paying so much to have a roof above your head is ridiculous...just stop buying the coolaid...