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Article is pretty comprehensive. Just add that the government in power during a housing price collapse will be out, so they'll do whatever they can to forestall
by hyperpallium 9y ago
Article is pretty comprehensive. Just add that the government in power during a housing price collapse will be out, so they'll do whatever they can to forestall it.
High immigration rates mentioned in the article are because Australia is a great place to live; this will comtinue.
We did have a housing correction a decade or two ago, with a mostly soft-landing. But instead of prices actually falling, people avoided selling of they could.
The only way prices will fall in practice is if the economy implodes - while this could happen, like a nuclear war, there would be much more serious problems to consider than house prices if it did.
- dageshi 9y agoPresumably interest rates will just be slashed to near zero in order to alleviate the pain and boost inflation in order to erode the debt. Basically what happened in the UK/US post 2008 crash.