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According to this article most people have been playing Monopoly wrong for most of their lives:

Monopoly rules demand that when players land on a space, such as Park Lane, but do not choose to purchase the property, an auction must take place.

The idea is that a bidding war will prompt another player to buy the space, and so the game will speed up.

However, many players usually skip this stage in ignorance and restart play, meaning the Park Lane property will be available until someone lands on it again – which could be hours later.

This seems like an incredible revelation, a lot of the smug DM readers on there are bragging about how they've always played it like this but I've payed Monopoly with quite a lot of different people in my time and never played it this way, even though this seems like a brilliant rule which makes complete sense to stop the game dragging on for hours and hours. Did anyone else not realise this