House Price

22/03/2017

ABS house price data ‘a clear sign threats in Sydney and Melbourne steadily rising’

Speculation about a housing bubble is likely to heat up even further, with Sydney and Melbourne property prices up 5.2 per cent and 5.3 per cent respectively over the three months to December, official data released on Tuesday shows. Brisbane real estate prices rose 2.2 per cent, and in Perth they were up 0.3 per cent, according to Australian Bureau of Statistics data recorded for the last quarter of 2016. Across all the capital cities, growth was up 4.1 per […]
15/03/2017

Reserve Bank worried about collapse in apartment prices

The Reserve Bank is considering tighter bank lending standards amid concern about how the financial system would handle a collapse in housing prices, beginning with Brisbane apartments. The Bank’s assistant governor (financial system) Michele Bullock told a business event in Sydney that the Reserve Bank was particularly uneasy about the “looming oversupply of apartments in Brisbane in particular, and possibly in some parts of Melbourne”. Sydney apartments were less of a worry. “There are indicators that, in the event of […]