We often encounter the argument that low interest rates have made valuation metrics such as the house price-to-earnings ratio less useful as a guide to the sustainability or otherwise of prevailing house prices. Yet comparing house prices to equity prices, which should also have benefited from low interest rates, still suggests that house prices are about 15% too high.
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