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Chief economist update: The turn in Australia's cycle from vicious to virtuous

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2019
... Australia's vicious cycle into a virtuous one. Already we're seeing a deceleration in the rate of decline in property prices. This, together with the on-going rally in the equity market, should turn wealth effect from negative to positive. Which ...

Chief economist update: Another RBA rate cut should be enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 JUN 2019
... foreign currency bottomlines are translated back into Australian dollars. Can you feel... the wealth effect? Sure, property prices have fallen but just imagine the wealth effect from the rising stock market - up to 11-year highs - us, Australians all ...

More Australians retire with big mortgages

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUN 2019
... Australians are retiring with large mortgages and the mortgage debt-to-income ratio has blown out, Wood explained: "Property prices have surged ahead of incomes, [meaning] that Australians buying homes have had to borrow more relative to their incomes." ...

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 ...