100%, that's what I meant earlier by:
"If they are all snapped up by rich types, that's a different matter, and things can be done to...discourage...such behaviour."
Markets that don't involve at least the possibility of Big Chris from number 18 having a quiet word in your shell-like are...suspect, and reliant on scaring off Big Chris (and his mates) by threat of police. At which point, we're talking about capitalist markets, not freed markets.