Thats incredible Stuart, just been looking on Zoopla, our friends which live in the same road as you paid £51k back in 99, Zoopla now thinks it's worth £291k - £356k, incredible really, it's not what I'd call a big house.
I think first time buyers will need to be aiming for terrace houses or flats to get on the ladder these days (which is actually what most people did when I bought my first house), whilst prices have increased a lot, so have wages - my first job in 86 paid £50 a week, my daughters first full time job will pay over seven times that when she starts next year, although it's a totally different job to mine that I could never do. Actually a better comparison would be our apprentice we had in 2014, allowing for wages rise for the last five years his wages would have been almost 6 times what I was earning when I started. People just need to learn to save a deposit.