Affordability is what drives house prices.
The data for house prices is variable zoopa vs ons vs some other stuff.
To say house prices fallen relative to inflation, depends what date you start,
@200sols what date does the FT article say because im not paying for it and 12 foot ladder doesn't work.
We should start January 2020, very quickly after that we have, a drop in rates and inflation expectations which drove house prices up 25% in 2 years to a peak towards the end of 2022.
At which point it began to decline, if you talk about the last 2 years then certainly house prices have fallen relative to inflation, but when calculating from jan 2020, no, they should be flat vs inflation.
Prediction wise, i think house prices should be flat for the next 5 years tbh.