in a generation has created some obvious losers. Investors who bought at the top of the market are underwater; homeowners looking to sell are having to slash prices and developers are struggling to offload apartments as projects started during the height of the boom near completion.But there are also some winners, from first-time home buyers to stylists sprucing up dwellings to get them camera-ready for sale.
Rent inflation, at 0.5 per cent, is around the lowest since 1993, according to the Reserve Bank of Australia. In Sydney, median weekly house rents declined 1.8 per cent in the December quarter from September, and apartment rents dropped 2.8 per cent, according to property listing website Domain. The return of first-home buyers is supporting the bottom end of the property ladder. The value of dwellings in the lowest 10 per cent of the market rose in the 12 months through January, and was little changed in the next two bands. By contrast, the top of the market is hurting the most: prices for the most-expensive properties fell almost 10 per cent.
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What a crock of shit. First off, prices are the same as 2016: when most people couldn’t afford to buy. Second, the % of FHB is up, but what is that in raw numbers? I wager your left tit there are less FHB in market now too.
If the slump is an hour, we are between 2 and 3 seconds in. It will be longer and more savage than you spruikers realise!
And it's NOT a 'slump'. It's a partial reversal of the worst housing bubble in the world.
Getting ahead 'despite' the 'downturn' NO. First homebuyers finally getting some sort of chance to buy a dwelling because the world's biggest, unsustainable, housing bubble has somewhat deflated. Thereby improving our social stability by having a higher proportion of homeowners
BusinessDay And folks looking to upgrade, surely? If everything goes down 15% (and exey places seem to have fallen by more than many “first homes”) then this downturn cuts the changeover cost, including stamp duty, which is great
Fallen from insane to ludicrous. Rejoice.
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