There is so much competition in the housing market right now, that there are buyers swooping in and snapping up the property well above asking price. And this is in a market with extremely inflated asset prices in the first place, taken against a backdrop of widespread precarity, hunger, and near-homelessness or flat out homelessness. Personally, I'm on the ropes here. Where do these people get this money? Where are they coming from? Alien invasion!
But to echo an old Nietzschean theme, perhaps if you go looking for aliens in outer space, you will eventually find them in your inner space, within.
