Ratings agency Moody’s believes a severe economic shock should see Canadian house prices plunge as much as 44 per cent. The assessment has Canada joining the ranks of Australia, Spain and the United Kingdom in the club of high flyers where a run-a-way housing market has seen housing market fundamentals …
1.5 per cent was wiped off the value of Australian stocks today, in part on the news the Chinese government is tightening regulations to help contain China’s Housing Bubble. The Shanghai Composite fell 3.6 per cent dragged down by some construction stocks falling as much as 10 per cent. Australia …
It’s the end of the month again and time for another update from the RBA on private credit aggregates. The trend continues with another all time record low for growth in annual housing credit growth, this time down to just 4.4 per cent. On a monthly basis, there was no …
S&P has reaffirmed Australia’s AAA credit rating for now, but has warned a number of vulnerabilities exist. One vulnerability is a housing correction due to the “substantial [household] debt mainly due to elevated property prices” in Australia. The report indicated “The sustainability of high household debt levels has not been …
A fortnight ago, we heard from the Prime Minister Ms Gillard taking about how “many Australians miss those days when they could spend all of their income, see wealth increase through ever-rising house prices, and through easy credit, borrow against the house again to spend more.” Last Friday, it was …
Influential businessman Dick Smith is one of many who calls Australia’s property market a Ponzi scheme. He told the weekend Australian Financial Review in 2011, “I suggest to people who have big borrowings on a house, it’s all a Ponzi scheme.” A Ponzi scheme provides returns to investors from money …
A private survey on unemployment from Roy Morgan estimates 10.9 per cent of the Australian workforce was unemployed in January 2013, up 1.3% over the past month and now sitting at the highest rate since January 2002. In other news, Retail trade figures released by the RBA show Christmas trading …
Emergency low interest rates are starting to kindle a fire under Australia’s lethargic housing market prompting vested interests’ to warn we are at the bottom of the housing cycle and on the cusp of a new housing boom, encouraging punters to get in early. Official data from the Australian Bureau …
Growth in housing lending continues to deteriorate, once again hitting record lows. Despite low interest rates, housing credit rose by only 4.5 per cent in the 12 months to December 2012, down from 4.6 per cent in the 12 months to November 2012 and the lowest growth in the 35 …
The Economist Magazine has just released its latest round-up of Global House Price indicators. According to the analysis, Australia’s house prices are 45 per cent overvalued on a price to rent ratio and 23 per cent overvalued on a price to income ratio: This is down from the November 2011 …
It is barely 11 days into the new year and mainstream media is being dominated by more subdued property forecasts this year. Over at Fairfax, Chris Vedelago is writing about the The slump we have to have which according to Chris is definitely overdue after Melbourne’s house prices surged nearly …
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