No Picture
Australian Economy

Chief banker warns against housing speculation

Glenn Stevens, Governor of the RBA made his strongest indication the reserve bank is worried by Australia’s surging property bubble in a prerecorded interview on Channel 7’s Sunrise. He said “I think it is a mistake to assume that a, you know, riskless, easy, guaranteed way to prosperity is just

No Picture
Australian Economy

The debt is killing us

In his speech on Friday to the ACI2010 49th World Congress, Reserve Bank of Australia Governor, Glenn Stevens used the analogy that the global financial system had suffered a near death experience and is now beginning to recover gradually. “The global financial system is gradually recovering its poise, after a

No Picture
Australian Economy

Australia for sale

With mortgage approvals in Australia falling of a cliff, and Real Estate agents reporting such a strong property market at a time when the market is flooded with near record levels of listings, one has to ask who is buying? Mortgage approvals in Australia are down 21 percent from its

No Picture
United States Economy

Builder’s lobby group says we need to build more houses

The Housing Industry Association (HIA) has this week released a report showing Australia’s housing “shortage” will quadruple if we don’t act now and increase the number of homes being constructed. The group has called for another 466,000 homes to be built by 2020, with the “shortage” currently at 109,000 homes.

No Picture
China

Bubble concern : China’s home prices “won’t drop too much” – developer

Official statistics released last Thursday showing sales of existing housing in Beijing falling 38 percent and units falling 64.2 percent in a month has prompted fears that the housing bubble in China may be losing momentum. Henry Cheng, the Managing Director of New World Development Co, a Hong Kong property

No Picture
Australian Economy

Risk assessment sees CBA restrict Home Loans for Investors

Following a “comprehensive” risk assessment of the Commonwealth Bank’s $270 billion home mortgage book, the CBA has decided to restrict lending to potentially risky property investors by reducing the LVR to 80 per cent for investment home loans, effective from March 20th. The changes will require residential property investors to

No Picture
Australian Economy

Australian home loan approvals fall of a cliff

The fall in the number of home loan approvals continue to accelerate with a 7.9 percent fall in January, the biggest fall for a decade. This follows a revised 5.1 per cent drop in December. As we highlighted in last month’s post, No ‘pent up’ demand for Mortgage Approvals, it

No Picture
New Zealand Housing

NZ Housing Bubble said to be on verge of collapse

New Zealand’s over heated property market is set to fall according to a news report on stuff.co.nz and following a surge of listings as homeowners and investors run for the exit. The Chief Executive of property website realestate.co.nz, Alistair Helm, reports there were 15,129 homes listed for sale in February,