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Australian Economy

First-home buyers in the eye of a storm

The Sydney Morning Herald reports : THE Australian housing market is facing the prospect of a “perfect storm” of financial pressures – including high mortgage debt, overvalued homes and rising unemployment – in which prices could eventually fall by as much as 30 per cent, investors have been warned. »

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Australian Economy

Shiller: [U.S.] House Prices Still Way Too High

In an interview with TechTicker, Professor Robert Shiller author of Irrational Exuberance and co-producer of the Case/Shiller Home Price Index said U.S. house prices are still way to high. Shiller said this is the biggest housing bubble in world history and &qout;we are entering a new era in some sense".