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Australian Housing

Media’s ‘property porn’ fuelled housing bubble

The Oireachtas banking inquiry, underway in Ireland, has heard of expert accounts on the vital role the Irish media played in hyping one of the world’s largest property bubbles. University College Dublin academic Dr Julien Mercille told the inquiry, “A number of journalists simply acted as cheerleaders for the property

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Australian Economy

Risks increase in Australian commercial property

Businesses forced to close, downsize and offshore has caused vacancy rates to surge around the country, and rents to fall, yet commercial property prices continue to rise. This divergence has the central bank concerned the “risk of a large repricing” in commercial property is increasing. The Reserve Bank of Australia

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Australian Economy

APRA to keep banking crackdown secret

According to the ABC, Kevin Nixon, Former Managing Director of Regulatory Affairs at the Institute of International Finance (IIF) says foreigners are puzzled about the entire Australian housing market. Now a partner (risk) with Deloitte in Sydney, Nixon is a respected voice globally on regulation and governance of the financial

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Australian Economy

Housing bubble prevents vital rate cut

“Australia is vastly uncompetitive, I don’t think they want to openly say it, which is why they put a lot of fudge and nonsense in the minutes today” commented Michael Every, head of Asia-Pacific markets research at Rabobank after last month’s cut to the official cash rate. Michael Every is,