Our forecasts for house prices, mortgage rates and incomes over the next few years mean affordability will remain relatively stretched compared with the past 15 years. But there is good reason to think that mortgage payments as a share of income were unusually low in the years following the financial crisis, and a return to the level seen from 1985 to 2005 is now likely.
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