Don’t believe the house hype, and don’t buy in unless you can truly afford it

• The housing bubble burst in the UK and Ireland in 2008. Stuff reporter John Edens, who lives in Wellington and hails from Northern Ireland, bought an entry-level house amid the hype and gives an insider’s account of the unprecedented conditions that led to one of the worst housing crashes in the developed world.

The moral of this story is: Don’t believe the hype.

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Google. Houses in the central Belfast street where reporter John Edens bought during the boom.