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Chief economist update: The rate cut Australia has to have

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUN 2019
... its annual 10% lending growth cap) will go a long way towards slowing/stopping/reversing the fall and fall in property prices. Not to mention the Labor Party's defeat at the May elections and its proposal to limit negative gearing and halve the capital ...

Chief economist update: The power of one

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAY 2019
... and dropping its annual 10% lending growth cap) will go a long way toward slowing/stopping/reversing the fall in property prices that, in turn, boosts sentiment and add to the wealth effect in the domestic economy. In addition, Australia has greater ...

Chief economist update: Like Britney Spears, Financial Standard's done it again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAY 2019
... its annual 10% lending growth cap) - will go a long way towards slowing/stopping/reversing the fall and fall in property prices, that'll go a long way into adding to the wealth effect in the domestic economy. Not to mention the Labor Party's ...

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

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 APR 2019
... Monetary Fund's (IMF) lead analyst for Australia. No prizes for guessing, Helbling was talking about Australian property prices and the rising momentum of their rates of decline. The following two charts track the latest figures from CoreLogic RP ...

Cost of living fears rise: Research

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 APR 2019
... would not have enough money to be able to retire comfortably. "The reality is that the wealth effect from falling property prices is weighing heavily on consumer sentiment, as people feel like their biggest asset - their home, loses value." Mitchell ...

Macquarie axes SMSF residential property loans

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAR 2019
... Bank have already stopped offering SMSF lending for residential property, amid regulatory concerns and falling property prices. National Australia Bank stopped offering SMSF loans for residential property in 2015. Banks have phased out these limited ...

Chief economist update: Cash rate should be 1%

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2019
... good tidings for the outlook on household consumption. There's also the negative wealth effect from falling property prices. Yet, RBA governor Philip Lowe doesn't seem perturbed. Lowe told his audience at the AFR Business Summit yesterday that ...

Chief economist update: Cut it, cut it now

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 FEB 2019
... rein in their spending quite a bit." Note that Luci's speech was delivered before the decline in Australian property prices hasn't yet gained momentum.

Chief economist update: Time for an RBA shift to neutral

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2019
... index, among others - are equally foreboding. So is the fast 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 ...

Royal Commission to suppress bank stocks

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2019
... Inevitably, this will also flow into the housing market. A sharp deceleration in credit growth would also affect property prices - which has the effect of a "negative feedback loop." There'll likely be more distressed selling and bad doubtful debts ...