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Chief economist update: Aussie property price falls become self-fulfilling

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 APR 2019
... property prices and the rising momentum of their rates of decline. The following two charts track the latest figures from CoreLogic RP data: As per the AFR, "The comments indicate Australia's economy is tracking below what the IMF anticipated six ...

Cost of living fears rise: Research

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 APR 2019
... was critically important and could address some of the concerns and inequalities highlighted. Mitchell explained the CoreLogic Hedonic Home Value Index has revealed national dwelling values fell 0.6% over March and have fallen a cumulative 7.4% since ...

Chief economist update: Time for an RBA shift to neutral

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2019
... accelerating momentum in the decline in Australian property prices, led by Sydney - down 9.7% in the year to January (CoreLogic RP Data Home Value Index) - and Melbourne - down 8.3%. Not only is inflation "not showing any tendency to rise", core inflation ...

Chief economist update: Australian property market slump

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2019
Be afraid, be very afraid! With headlines like these, not only those who have their fingers in the Australian property pie should be scared, us, Australians all, should be. "Australia's housing price drop expected to be the worst in the world" - ...

Chief economist update: Safe as burning houses

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 JAN 2019
... the decline in property prices which no longer makes real estate a profitable proposition (especially for investors). CoreLogic RP Data stats show the 5 capital city aggregate home value index declined by 6.4% in the year to December - led by an 8.9% ...

Why the RBA has reason to cut rates in 2019

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JAN 2019
Our resident chief economist explains why the continued drop in property prices could force the RBA to defy consensus and cut rates. First, some global context. US Federal Reserve has hinted that it will be more dovish with regards to monetary policy ...

Sydney residential property slumps

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 7 JAN 2019
... as house prices slid nationally to end the year with the biggest decline quarter on quarter since 2008, according to CoreLogic. Sydney dwellings values fell 8.9% over the year and total returns were -5.7%. Melbourne residential properties came close ...

Chief economist update: Aussie property market drop becoming self-fulfilling

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 DEC 2018
... aware of this given my rantings on the property sector's large multiplier effect on the domestic economy. The latest CoreLogic stats shows that the fall in the five-city capital aggregate of home values quickened to 5.9% in the year to 10 December ...

Chief economist update: A prelude to a rate cut?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2018
Could it be? Could it be that the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) is now pondering the likelihood that the next move in interest rates is down rather than up? In early June this year, I put forth a thesis that long stretches of steady interest rates ...

Chief economist update: RBA more likely to cut

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2018
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) painted an optimistic picture of the global and domestic economies when it held its policy meeting last month (6 November) before concluding that "...the stance of monetary policy unchanged at this meeting would be ...