Australia's Housing Market Slows Down Amidst Affordability Concerns

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Australia's housing market experienced a slowdown in December, with home values dipping 0.1%. CoreLogic attributes this downturn to a widening gap between income, borrowing capacity, and home values, exacerbated by slowing economic growth and persistent high interest rates. The report suggests this dip might be short-lived.

Australia’s housing downturn is being driven by a widening gap between income, borrowing capacity and home values, but the dip is likely to be “shallow and short-lived”, a new report has found. In December, Australia’s property market eased with home values falling 0.1% after a flat result in November and a gradual slowdown over last year, according to CoreLogic.

Eliza Owen, the head of research at CoreLogic Australia, said the drop was exacerbated by slowing economic growth and “higher-for-longer” interest rates. “After almost two years, the housing market appears to finally be buckling to these pressures,” she said. “Not just interest rates that have been higher for much longer than expected, but affordability constraints, where there’s a massive gap between what people can realistically afford and what home values actually are.” It was “all kind of underscored” by cost of living pressures and weakening economic conditions, she said. A median income household in Australia with a 20% deposit could afford a home of $513,000, while the national median dwelling value is $815,000, she said. Owen said that for the last two years, the gap was likely sustained by a group of buyers less affected by interest rates, such as sellers flush with resale profits or buyers on high incomes. “Some buyers may have been willing to accept higher housing costs in the short term, on the expectation that interest rates would fall,” she said. “However, as lower interest rates have not materialised, housing demand from these buyers may also be waning.” In December, only five of Australia’s 15 capital city and regional “rest of state” markets saw declines, according to the dat

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