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Interest rate clouds loom large over Gillard's election parade
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Real estate auctions trigger complaints
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When's a good time to buy? It's always a good time!
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Foreign punters spooked by perky property market
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More than 3000 first home buyer cheats
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realestate.com.au thinks Australians are willing to pay more for residential property.
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Why economists didn't see the big crunch coming
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'Overall demand for housing doesn't fall too much further'
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Shoppers paying down debt
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Bubble-burst fears rise
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Irish House prices overvalued by 16 per cent
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OMG _CHRIS ZAPPONE gets it!
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a dawning realisation that dan was right and Australian housing is in a bubble: smh.com.au
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Old age no fun if you're broke, says Treasury Secretary Ken Henry
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Banks face pressure over cost of lending and look likely to raise rates
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Australian property 'world's most overpriced'
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Households pay mortgage with the fantastic plastic
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David and Libby Koch's predictions for 2010
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Spruiker Doctor Michael Yardney STILL pushing prices double every 7-10 years line
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Sour outlook for house prices: The Australian
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Banks want election out of way to raise rates
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OECD says what Bill Mitchell has always been saying about OZ employment figures
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Michael of Sydney with egg on face, after pie-fight
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Number of Owner Occupied dwellings for April - May go up by 1.9 but total value go down by 0.3
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Another Article on Plunging Clearance Rates
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what's that skip? It's different here? ; Clearance rate slumps as supply surges
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Middle Australia being tortured by economic realities
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House prices 'unlikely to dive' (phew)
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Young priced out of property plump for inner-city pads
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US housing market, already devestated, is starting a second leg down
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Biggest Defaulters on Mortgages Are the Rich
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The Economist looks at gold as an alternative to property and equities
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The Economist estimates Aus house prices now 61.1% overvalued
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More Brissie gloom - with a vacancy rate of 4.7%, these pessimistic predictions are still highly unlikely to be realised
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House prices dim bank stocks' allure
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Pigs fly, Fairfax site reports APM's failed fantasy prediction on Brisbane rents
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Canadian real estate imploding
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Zappone standard rent rise spruik
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HK developer suspected of stacking market
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They got the title wrong on this one ('rates rise'??)
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Australian first-home buyers face 4.5 year savings wait to buy property
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Fly - In Workers Shun City too Dear to Live in
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Six years to save a deposit in Sydney (ADVISORY: contains Gen-Y bashing)
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Housing Affordability Worsens in Canberra
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Spruiker thinks they are the center of the universe.
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$420k for a one - bedroom tenement in Canberra "A Good Thing"
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Really bad clearance rates news is buried in a 'good news for RE' stoory...
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Foreign investors worried about Australian debt
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Buyers expected to favour private sales over auctions as growth slows
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Big question marks over the phantom recovery
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Buyers maketh the market
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Keen calling double-dip
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Land still cheap: in middle of nowhere
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Low clearance rates prompt this kind of article
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October election could pop the bubble!?
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Records fall but prestige sales slow
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Sacking Rudd and reversing all the mining tax policies Gillard has repaired most of the damage from RSPT thanks party to Business Spectator - but Rob everybody now knows about Australia's massive housing bubble - na, sorry, still much Aussi
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Small and medium sized minors unhappy with rspt outcome - agreement favours multinationals over Aussie companies
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Bluestone Group aussie Subprime nightmare
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Los Angelification is coming to a city near you
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home sales slump, prices stagnate
|
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NZ Finance Minister says NZ & Aus housing "still way overpriced"
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Fairfax Online Desperate to Maximise Page Visits
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Buyers spooked as rates climb
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Home prices chipping away at fairness: Ratings executive
|
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US Unemployment Still High: Housing Still Weak
|
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In the eye of the GFC storm
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Non-metro prices down 1% in May
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New Home Sales Slump, Prices Stagnate (but only for 2010, says Christopher J)
|
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New home sales drop to three-month low
|
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Yes Virginia, it is wrong
|
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New home sales drop
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Clever Aussies! - Homeowners 'living on rice' to pay mortgage
|
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Discount rates going the way of the dodo
|
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Bank funding is not getting cheaper anytime soon
|
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We must do better on housing supply:Swan
|
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HIA "forecasts" housing "recovery" to "slow"; "shortage" to continue
|
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Clearance rates under 60% point to "correction" to come
|
|
Aussie property is the best in the world ;)
|
|
Gold in bubble, but property OK!
|
|
Clearance rates plunge, crash coming
|
|
Osborne's First Budget - It's Wrong, Wrong, Wrong.
|
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Borrowers face tougher mortgage test
|
|
Lasalle helps spruik property overseas
|
|
Calculating clearance rates
|
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Mortgage stress is still rising
|
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THE DAILY CHART: Interbank U-turn
|
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Supply Surges as Demand Weakens
|
|
Promises by Minister Julia Gillard
|
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farewell
|
|
Weak house prices until 2011, says UBS
|
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Australia on the verge of property bubble crisis
|
|
"Geography of Nowhere", Australian style
|
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Raising Disposable Income Will Counter the Housing Bubble: Crikey
|
|
US Housing Data Very Weak; Wall St Falls
|
|
Renovation frenzy has distorted median price gains
|
|
Trust us, it's not a bubble
|
|
Record auctions good news for buyers
|
|
Affordability "could" be on the way up
|
|
Parental pressure
|
|
untapped minerals
|
|
Audit nets $6.8m in stamp duty rorts
|
|
Melb auction clearance rate to be higher than 70% this weekend: spruiker
|
|
Australia's Housing Market has the Fourth - Fastest Growth Rate
|
|
Everything's Fantastic!
|
|
Asia Moves to Contain Property Bubbles
|
|
Anger over world's costliest apartment as sale cancelled
|
|
US Home Building at Five - Month Low (Post Tax - Credit)
|
|
US house prices still seem to be sliding
|
|
Spanish Housing Bubble Continues to Deflate; Spanish Private Sector Debt Problems Eerily Similar to Ours
|
|
Building boom to tame house prices
|
|
Housing Market: Booms, Bubbles and Inevitable Busts
|
|
20yrs of poor policy blamed for housing crisis
|
|
Public Housing to Save the Construction Industry (Some Dill at the Age, Parrotted by Some Dill at Business Spectator!)
|
|
Hard to find clearence rates for Melb and Syd
|
|
Right wing gottliebesen comes out clean saying we need easy credit for house prices to keep growing. (Oh so it not simple supply and demand !!)
|
|
Malcolm Turnbull on the Chinese Property Bubble
|
|
Housing Market a 'Time Bomb', Says Investment Legend
|
|
Debt's not a problem, now stop borrowing so much: Battellino
|
|
Ric Battellino Reckons There's no Bubble: the Age
|
|
Rates will go up and the game is over - Grantham
|
|
Australians' (illegal) Super shopping spree - on houses!
|
|
Brisbane FHB demand down by 44%, yet prices forecasted to increase 4%..
|
|
BS Shrapnel says down is up, black is white etc
|
|
Three likely key drivers for a potential housing correction: crikey.com.au
|
|
All change!
|
|
Victoria sees record number of homes up for auction as clearance rates fall
|
|
Real Estate: Buy or Rent?
|
|
Balloon deflates as race for a home starts to slow
|
|
Canadian FHBs set to suffer
|
|
Household debt will leave us exposed
|
|
Property boom to end
|
|
Aussie banks - a shorting opportunity
|
|
Melbourne to level out and maybe drop in some areas
|
|
ANZ still hopeful on NZ house prices
|
|
Baby boomers offload houses to fund retirement
|
|
Loss of stimulus hits home
|
|
Unemployment Rate Drops: ABS
|
|
Bernard Keane on NSW Housing Policy
|
|
China sneezes, Australia (including our housing bubble) catches pneumonia
|
|
BBG: RBA head comments on debt
|
|
Another Report of Glenn Stevens' Comments
|
|
Cut Debt, Save More: Stevens
|
|
Stevens Recommends Households Ease Up on their Credit Binge
|
|
Home loans drop to 9-year low
|
|
Open house on assets could unlock trillions
|
|
California Housing Market Bottoms?
|
|
Rates Hit Housing Finance
|
|
ANZ Request Scuttled as Aussie Loan Sales Dive 20 Per Cent
|
|
ANZ Knocks Back Aussie Home Loans for $2bn in Funding
|
|
Please take on more debt
|
|
At last a strategy that will ease the housing shortage
|
|
BBG: AU business confidence drops again
|
|
NSW tries to keep bubble alive by dropping stamp duty
|
|
Melbourne is turning to be buyers market
|
|
'Financial shock' risk for borrowers
|
|
Sydney hits ceiling, Melbourne not far behind
|
|
Property: ready for a fall
|
|
Lenders say no to loans as buyers knocked back
|
|
Europe rejects deficit-funded stimulus - Geithner sulks
|
|
Don't rely on us for recovery, says US
|
|
Immigration dropping off
|
|
US Hedge Funds Dump Aussie Banks due to OUR Housing Bubble! - The Australian
|
|
Sudden stop in Canada
|
|
We're rich again! ... apparently.
|
|
Canada is fixed, Australia's allright - if only Europe could get their stuff together
|
|
No bubble here - it's all good again.
|
|
New cap on levies eases pressure on house prices
|
|
More blind optimism from Pascoe
|
|
Brisbane has the second most unaffordable homes in the country
|
|
The most irritating thing about the housing shortage is that there really isn’t one: tribunemagazine.co.uk
|
|
Auctions
|
|
Shares ahead of property in tax treatment
|
|
Why you need $100k to live in Sydney
|
|
US House Prices the "Granddaddy" of all Bubbles, Says Warren Buffett
|
|
House prices halted as confidence slides
|
|
Clear definition for insanity
|
|
Housing Shortage, What Housing Shortage?: money morning
|
|
Land Banking until the cows come home
|
|
Phew! Victoria saves the day! (HIA/Zappone nonsense)
|
|
Something is amiss Downunder
|
|
Doublespeak Christopher Joye - Style: Business Spectator
|
|
Experts warn surge in number of properties for sale could force house prices down
|
|
Inflation gauge rises above Reserve Bank's 2-3pc target range
|
|
Flood of Property Listings to Hit Melbourne Market
|
|
Prices May Drop (in some areas), but Only Temporarily: APM
|
|
Melbourne auction clearance rate
|
|
Darwin property more expensive than New York and London
|
|
China housing market a bubble; gov't policies able to reduce potential damage: economist
|
|
Sydney house prices worse than London and New York
|
|
"Desperate" retailers slash to clear unwanted inventory
|
|
Canadian speculators dump property before easy money leaves the table
|
|
Shock Report: Real Estate Agents Implicated in Price Fixing Scam
|
|
Now where did I see this chart..?
|
|
Stubborn Mule grills Steve Keen without checking his facts first, the presentation wasn't his
|
|
Doi! Wrong Link!
|
|
Must be an RBA Board Meeting Soon ...
|
|
Bleak Prediction for House Prices: IMF
|
|
Home owners feel rates heat
|
|
Auction clearance rates fall 'could mean house price slowdown'
|
|
IMF Economist Argues Home Prices Still Have Far To Fall
|
|
South Australian house prices make ownership difficult
|
|
Euro jitters hit local home sales
|
|
Property outlook remains fragile: report
|
|
One in Seven US Mortgages is In Trouble: Business Spectator
|
|
Moody's analyst looks at short-term trendline, declares RMBS to be fine
|
|
Cracks appear in housing market, uptick in prime mortgage arrears
|
|
First home buyers in regional QLD get $11,000 from 1 July
|
|
Home loan rates tipped to hit 8.6%
|
|
China insurance
|
|
Mortgage help for kiddies
|
|
is this resonable argument
|
|
Australian Home Prices Won't Repeat Last Year's Growth - Moody's
|
|
Property under pressure
|
|
Property still hot despite cooling factors
|
|
Re-hash: how to enter the property 'game'
|
|
Nobody on the Ladder Wants Prices to Fall
|
|
Net Migration Down 20 per cent
|
|
SEQ to have three new satellite cities
|
|
Multi-storey future for leafy streets
|
|
Rent or buy? It's time to wake up
|
|
2.3 real estate agents for every house for sale in California
|
|
US Consumer Confidence Rises; Housing Showing No Signs of Recovering
|
|
National property register to show debts
|
|
Things must be getting serious... even Kochie's worried!
|
|
"Rich" families drowning in mortgage debt turn to Radio Rentals
|
|
North shore NIMBYs lose battle
|
|
Another crazy idea to keep the bubble bubbling
|
|
Australia Headed for "painful deleveraging - induced recession": Steve Keen in Business Spectator
|
|
Home Lending Dive will Continue - Steve Keen in Business Spectator
|
|
Interest rises kick the stuffing out of auction clearance rates
|
|
Michael Hudson on Australia
|
|
Banks sitting on a big debt bomb
|
|
Tax is no issue if bubble pops
|
|
On The Oz Property Market And REITS
|
|
To rent or to buy: it is time to take stock
|
|
How the bubble burst in N Ireland
|
|
Melbourne housing crash! (err... housing affordability, that is)
|
|
You must get your foot in the door... at any cost!
|
|
Housing market strong, but urgency eases
|
|
A major cause of rises in bankruptcy among the middle class has been due to unsustainable home loans.
|
|
sweep of 58 transactions targeted people living overseas who had bought a property in expensive Melbourne suburbs in the past 12 months
|
|
Cashed-up foreigners snap up homes
|
|
Have we learned NOTHING?
|
|
mass narcissistic personality disorder needs a good, hard jab of ordinariness: SMH
|
|
New Minister wants to flood WA with land (yeah!)
|
|
Home to be seized for $6K debt under new laws
|
|
Property market cools as buyers stay home : SMH
|
|
This just in from Canada - "Oh Crap"
|
|
Inflation
|
|
Bogan Bribe Watch, May 21st
|
|
Freedom Watch
|
|
FT Article on Mooted British CGT Increase
|
|
Christopher Joye on Why We Have no Bubble (Business Spectator)
|
|
WA fhb market collapses
|
|
Beijing is no Dubai
|
|
Housing affordability worsens as rates bite
|
|
NAB under fire on CDO write-downs
|
|
RBA says everything peachy, Aus won't end up like US
|
|
Sydney land release 'largest in state's history' (should prove to be one hell of a glut!)
|
|
The Property Spruikers Have Been Awfully Quiet
|
|
Chinas bubble generation
|
|
Australia March home loans skid to 9-year low
|
|
Rejecting negative gearing changes is 'cowardice'
|
|
Housing demand falls sharply : Courier Mail
|
|
Shock News: Abbott campagn(s) funded by property developers.
|
|
Top homes take double time to sell
|
|
The first weakening in Melbourne's property bubble appears
|
|
Interest rates to nudge double digits
|
|
NZ House Prices Dip in March, but This Means They're Rising...?
|
|
Beijing Home Prices Plunge 31.4%
|
|
Quick - gear up and buy your own house before your Landlord defaults on his mortgage!!
|
|
New tax on home buyers will 'hurt market'
|
|
The Conversation (Business Spectator)
|
|
Rising House Prices Put Brakes on Market
|
|
Nearly 3 trillion yuan has been wasted or stolen
|
|
Michael Hudson on the Eurozone and IMF Bailout of Greece ... it's not gonna work...
|
|
Demand for mortgages continues to slump
|
|
Tax breaks to blame for rising house prices
|
|
Nice Home. Where's the Rest of It?
|
|
Home loans fall, rate rises bite
|
|
FHBs top 14k in VIC
|
|
Let's bury the housing shortage myth: Business Spectator
|
|
Why flats are flat
|
|
Arrears rise as rates climb
|
|
Euro "Bazooka" Rescue - creating a major air pocket under the market
|
|
House prices set to stall, say experts
|
|
Perfect storm could bring house price growth to a halt
|
|
BIS continues their assault on truth
|
|
Home dreams turn sour in the southwest
|
|
Soaring property prices spark spruiking boom. HIA suggests capitalising your home equity.
|
|
Banks facing rise in long-term costs
|
|
What Roughly AUD $155k gets you in the States.
|
|
One home a day being repossessed - report
|
|
Warning as home and rates could yet take a tumble
|
|
All Silent on the Bubble Front - Christopher Joye
|
|
Aussie banks about to blow up? CDS spreads are going nuts
|
|
Outlook dims for house prices
|
|
Fixed-rate loans least popular in a decade
|
|
Steve Keen on 7pm Project
|
|
Max out on housing, default on the household bills
|
|
Property council happy that we still have negative gearing
|
|
RBC: building approval statistics are misleading
|
|
Blaming foreigners won't fix price crisis?
|
|
Mortgage Stress Fears Exaggerated, Unless You're John Symond
|
|
Contrarian indicator in place - last chance to sell before the pop !
|
|
Developers claim interest rate rise will lead to a collapse in house prices AND in new building construction. So what happended to Supply/Demand?
|
|
FHVG patsies forced to sell
|
|
Rents have increased much slower than house prices - despite the headline
|
|
Paying the price for reverse mortgages
|
|
A spruik a day keeps the crash at bay
|
|
The big bad RBA raises rates.
|
|
PM Dumps Chance to Fix Housing
|
|
The consequences of bringing forward demand.
|
|
Chance of Another Taxpayer - Subsidised Rate Hike
|
|
Rejecting Negative Gearing Changes is "Cowardice"
|
|
Prime and subprime arrears increasing
|
|
Population Growth and Shortage of Quality Housing The Only Factors Responsible for Double Digit Price Rises: Zappone
|
|
CBA Economist says Australia is different, we have kangaroos
|
|
Housing tipped for price implosion
|
|
Chinese banks forced to increase reserves by tightening lending
|
|
Australia's external debt to reach $1 trillion
|
|
Insurance companies know that the game is up
|
|
Labor to leave NG and CGT unchanged
|
|
Australia is betting everything on the resources boom, while cash-strapped families struggle to pay the bills
|
|
Grantham - Australian property to fall 40% (hopefully discussed further in next newsletter)
|
|
Stimulus fades, frugality returns
|
|
Housing to prompt rate hike
|
|
''The possible boost to savings could .. have negative implications for house prices"
|
|
Record May auction listings will test anxious agents
|
|
British House Prices Drop Slightly in March: the Independent
|
|
CBA: cost of borrowing still increasing
|
|
Zappone Watches the Same FT Videos that We Do.
|
|
Canada Leads the way for us backward Aussies
|
|
Abbott might just win the election
|
|
Sydney still top of the property ladder but rivals are closing gap
|
|
One Handed Housing Supply : Earthsharing
|
|
Banks, during the bubble
|
|
House prices not surging
|
|
House prices surging
|
|
Zappone Article with Comments (as prophesied).
|
|
Say It Isn't So: House Prices to Rise by only 8 to 10 percent: APM
|
|
Cost of living increases, but will wages?
|
|
Dicey ride ahead to dodge a debt spiral
|
|
NSW govt disputes Sydney home shortage
|
|
Housing shortfall locking out thousands (comments)
|
|
Sydney's imaginary housing shortage to continue
|
|
Canadian property market starting to roll over - as predicted
|
|
Rising Wave of Voter Anger Over Housing
|
|
Higher rate rises and credit rationing tipped by UBS analyst
|
|
High property prices forces people to have less children
|
|
Surprise CPI rise could spell pain for indebted
|
|
How China's property bubble works
|
|
NZ to hold OCR amid faltering retail spending and housing market
|
|
China poised to add REITs to cool down simmering property market
|
|
NZ urged to follow Australia's lead on housing
|
|
Rents are suddenly going to follow landlord expenses... for the first time ever
|
|
China acts tough on 2nd-home buys
|
|
Editorial: PM's housing policy built on shaky ground
|
|
Rudd admits policy was stopping FHBs buying in
|
|
New rules prevent lending to deadbeats
|
|
Developers Wring Hands over Foreign Ownership Backflip
|
|
Australia’s two-speed economy
|
|
Canada at the Edge Of Deflation’s Vortex
|
|
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd slams door on Asian raiders
|
|
Foreigners face tighter rules on property ownership
|
|
Market propped by foreign inflows
|
|
ACT REI rejects data it didn't spin
|
|
Property valued properly : The Age
|
|
Mortgage stress awaits, if you can get a loan
|
|
Negative gearing helps maintain bubble
|
|
First Homebuyers Binge on Debt (that now can't be spent buying crap at JB HiFi)
|
|
Housing review aims to alleviate price pressures
|
|
COAG to examine some of the issues surrounding high property prices... but don't expect them to report soon.
|
|
Labor senses high house prices are a political danger
|
|
It's not about waiting for prices to go up - we'd sell if the government built us a railway station or if prices were higher though . umm? (smh)
|
|
Dealing with the debt spectre
|
|
Why property pricing doesn't add up (check out the poll!)
|
|
No data: foreign buyer property puzzle
|
|
Aussie property - safe as houses, or a house of cards?
|
|
Home-ownership dream dims for gen Y
|
|
BIS Shrapnel expects the first-timer numbers will start to recover in the second half of this year (because prices are up, rates are rising and the boost is gone?)
|
|
The UK and Australian housing bubbles are the two that remain outstanding: Jeremy Grantham on ft.com
|
|
Australian houses the most overvalued in the world: the economist
|
|
RBA Suggest 'higher than normal' bank rate
|
|
Young Australians Giving up on Home Ownership
|
|
Penthouse sales hit bargain basement
|
|
Tough lending conditions to continue
|
|
Household debt rises as mortgages grow
|
|
Rates to rise; house prices rising 1 percent per month - RBA
|
|
Let's only quote YOY, monthly data looks bad
|
|
More BS from the HIA
|
|
SMH Poll on FIRB rules: 2 hours to go
|
|
Economists baffled by robust property market
|
|
Syd & Melb had unsustainable price surge
|
|
Nasty home truths about our corrupt property market
|
|
accountabilitycircle
|
|
Melbourne's rental yields are less than four percent, but it's still a great investment, dammit!
|
|
FHBs priced out of property market
|
|
The last decade of unprecedented price increases are now the new normal and will continue for the next 10 years (according to APM)
|
|
Agent's wife makes $0.5m profit in 24hrs courtesy of NSW government
|
|
More than 60 per cent of his weekly income now goes towards mortgage payments. (theage) (link fixed sorry)
|
|
The impossible dream
|
|
Call for reform as 'rental society' looms
|
|
Speculation that the Henry Tax Review May Recommend a Land Tax...
|
|
Schadenfreude about overpriced dogboxes best show on the box : SMH
|
|
Strongest March Quarter ever - 2% decrease
|
|
Prices rise as finance dries up - guess why?
|
|
Property Plummet Professor Climbs Kosciuszko
|
|
Hoard land , any land even the farm kind
|
|
Walk of Shame for an Economist: PM (ABC Radio)
|
|
Bubble Down Under NYTimes
|
|
Where the affordable houses are (or: null reference error)
|
|
Steve Keen Sets Out
|
|
British House Prices Declined in February: The Times
|
|
More Damned Lies and Statistics from APM and Chris Zappone
|
|
Rents don't increase after all
|
|
Damned Lies and Statistics: How APM and Others Mislead the Public About Rent Rises
|
|
APM Predicts 7% Rent Rises (So it must be true)
|
|
Top economists want tax loopholes closed: abc.net.au
|
|
What goes up could crash down: Property: THe Australian
|
|
Slow Recovery for British House Prices
|
|
Price Recovery Stumbles in UK
|
|
Banks to wind-up more small business borrowers
|
|
House prices to plateau(!?) as buyers flee in droves
|
|
China's bubble is going to explode
|
|
Home Loans Extend Slump
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Rate Rise No Dent on Recordbreaking Auctions
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Meet the Debt Man!
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Keen Walk - Buy a shirt!
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First homebuyer numbers continue to plunge as investors regain control
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BREAKING NEWS - Banks overexposed to housing market
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Property bubble spurs spending
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Democracy is not gonna help deflate this bubble
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Winners aplenty from RBA rate rises
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Borrowers can handle higher rates (which are here to stay): The Australian
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Debt stress on the rise again
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Property investment company predicts the market in investors favour forever.
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Construction industry laments hangover and expects taxpayers to cough up welfare.
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More spruiking based on unfounded statistics couresty of fairfax
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Brisbane rental market is softening - must be due to a sudden fall in population..
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House prices: more room to fail
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You can't afford it!
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Safe as houses? Not as an investment : SMH
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April fools' day spruiking
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Hockey Contradicts Abbott on Foreign Ownership
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Housing Shortage Set to Hit 35 Million in 2050: moneymorning.com.au
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House Prices Up 12.7 per cent: RP Data and Rismark
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Vested interest expresses chagrin at RBA warnings
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The Daily Reckoning on Stevens' Sunrise Interview
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Securitisation is Back. Well, isn't that great?
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Cheap finance is a problem but there's no bubble: The Strayan
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Caught in the Cogs of the Tax Regime: Tim Colebatch
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Home sales fall in February
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So building less houses means prices are going to rise ... ??
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A great walk!
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With few bubbles left to lose money on, the Chinese turn to Australia.
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Mums and dads adding to the great Australian nightmare : SMH
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Supply outstrips demand in Sydney but spruikers will be spruikers.
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RBA smokes crack, says retail deposits (savings) are bad for the economy.
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'Peak debt' approaching as house prices outstrip incomes
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Bubble risk: Rates set to rise, RBA says : SMH
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Australia's property bubble: it's here : SMH
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Baby boomers face going into retirement saddled with debt
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At any cost: the dangerous seduction of home ownership
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Housing at These Prices Will Leave a Heavy Debt to Bear: The Age
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Cost of funding still threatens to bring down house of cards
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RE institutes do not provide timely or accurate data
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100% lvr goes the way of the dodo
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Melbourne's Market now White-Hot: The Age
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Macquarie returns to 'low doc' loans
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Prosperity on rise as economy shows signs of recovery
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Sydney property prices set to double, APM.
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How to get rid of income tax in Kansas City: Kansas City Star
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Tougher times for borrowers - should make it EASY for FHB to 'enter the market'. Oh, hang on...
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Canadian and Australian housing markets facing a synchronised downturn? Prices spike on falling volume, then crash
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Crikey and researchers prove what we all suspect - "55 per cent of all stories were triggered by public relations firms"
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NAB toxic debt on the nose, APRA to investigate
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Housing faces affordability timebomb (that has already exploded)
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Reserve Agrees there's a Housing Shortage in Australia (Daily Reckoning)
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Colebatch: Dazzled by Housing's Magic Rise
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..and now CJ advocates population growth
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Reserve should nip rising house prices in the bud
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You’re not a smart property investor, you’re a @#&+
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Things Bogans Like: #85
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More on struggle street after rate rises & paying too much
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Boomers hold majority of real estate
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Abysmal growth in core areas
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Record number of homes for sale takes gloss off auction prices
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look at what you get for $175k......in Australia
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look what you get for $175k.....in the US
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Sydney house prices tipped to push higher according to the Real Estate Buyer’s Agents Association of Australia... wait, what? (link now fixed sorry)
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Mortgage stress levels increasing
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Overheating risk leads to nerves
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Prices continue to rise as the RBA assumes its role of chief mouthpiece to the property lobby
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Speculators fear the bubble will pop. smh.com.au
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Housing market shows signs of cooling
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Home loan finance slumps most in a decade
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More collusion to keep prices inflated.
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Luxury appt expected to lose 28% - RE undervaluing ploy, or signs of a falling market?
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The bailout to end all taxes: libertarian.org.au
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CBA Tighten the screws further with LVR reductions
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Gen Y Housing Market Sleeper Election Issue : earthsharing.org.au
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Small steps in the right direction in Queensland: Courier-Mail?
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Brisbane median house price surges past $500,000
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Iceland Votes Against Repaying the Bankster's Debts
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NZ on the brink of crash...ha ha ha
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Couples work twice as long for a house, I hope it's worth it!
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Peak of Melbourne's market has emerged
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FHBs spooked from market as rates rise
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China boom to force AU interest rates higher
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Fears of US style property crash persist in Asia
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Forget Australia: Buy in the States
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Fears Grow of Double Dip for UK Housing Market: The Independent
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Christopher Joyce in two minds? : Daily Reckoning
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Demand but no supply as bubble heads north
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Crash Course: Chapter 15 - Bubbles by Chris Martenson
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Bubbles down under
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Residential housing: The next bubble or boom?: ABC uneashed
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Any oversupply could cool house prices even without the Reserve's efforts
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Shiller on 7.30 report talking Aussie housing market
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Dodgy figures from Joyce
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Owners avoiding fixed rates, exposed to risk
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Melbourne market sees $1B turnover (with comments)
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24% of properties bought & sold since 2005 have lost money
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John Symond says FHBs paid up to $50k too much
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Co-owners pool money to buy at top of market
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Housing credit growth below 1%
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RPData tries to make drop look like a rise
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How to Ignore a Bubble: asxnewbie
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NRAS already being rorted
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Australia's mortgage debt blow-out
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No new entries into Ponzi scheme this year.
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Housing affordability hits the wall (and generates a flurry of comments)
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Canberra's Slummy, Low Quality Housing to Outstrip Sydney's Slummy, Low Quality Housing: HIA
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Michael Pascoe: What happens when an Aussie housing bubble bursts
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Housing debt in overdrive
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Stevens reiterates commitment to fight bubble
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The days of 100% mortgage (easy money) are over!
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Rents for all dwellings in Sydney's inner and middle suburbs rose an average of 0.0 per cent last year
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Valuations Bill - dropping your land value, dollar by dollar
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Rents for three-bedroom homes in Sydney's outer suburbs rose an average of 9.4 per cent last year
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Predicting when the property bubble will pop is bad for your mental health : SMH
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Web alert - warning on 'crazy' house prices : SMH
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Delinquent mortgages to rise
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Matusik says GC market will stagnate
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Easier zoning would deflate home prices
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Relax about Greece - the average Australian family is much worse off
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Stressed out: waiting for the bubble to burst :SMH
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Will affordability stall our property 'boom'? Comments suggest 'yes' and so will the debt...
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Australians drowning in debt
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Home loan size hits record as volume shrinks
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Rates to fight housing booms
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RBA continues to talk big and act small on bubbles
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APM continues attempt to attract greater fools
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a party to vote for at last
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Rates set to jump regardless of RBA action
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Government Withdraws Bank Funding Guarantee and State Guarantee
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Latest spruik installment from APM
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Public housing improves local prices: smh.com.au
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First home buyers brace for tougher year
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Ex Macquarie Property Chief Moss Sees Sagging Australian Prices
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Perth median house prices at record high
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RBA Boffins Raise the Bar... Because they are taking RP Data-Rismark's data into account?
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Chris Joye: Whether the housing market cool?
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Greek drama may affect how much a mortgage costs in Australia
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Bubble trouble for the RBA
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QLD repossessions soared in 09, trend continuing
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Australian Housing Bubble About to Burst, Market About to Crash :marketoracle
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Rate rises to trigger mortgage defaults
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Rate rise will bring on pain (another 26k households in mortgage stress)
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Australia’s housing bubble: it’s "already" here: crikey
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RBA on housing: told you so
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Mortgage market under pressure as rising rates spook buyers
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45% of FHBs lured by the Boost are now suffering from mortgage stress or severe mortgage stress. Many using credit cards or other loans to meet obligations.
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Shiller's List: Diagnose a Bubble
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If China sneezes, AU's corrosive foreign debt will come into play
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First buyer fade leads December home price dip
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The great Australian dream ending
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MFAA: More Australians Struggling With Mortgage Payments
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Why Obama Wants High Home Prices: housingstorm
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Australia's housing crisis
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Brisbane unit prices fell by 1.4 per cent in the December quarter
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40% of people use credit cards to pay bills, set to worsen
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Property peaks thanks to first home cannon fodder
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It's official - Australian housing is ranked among the least affordable in the world and "a problem of national proportions"
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Inflation jump adds to rate-rise hopes: SMH
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Holding out the faint hope that IR will not go up too much - things must be getting dicey - with Westpac offering 5 yr TD for 8% this would seem optimistic to say the least
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Australian capital city houses among the most expensive in the world: SMH
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Interest rates likely to go up strongly
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Commercial landlords gain the upper hand
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Banking Reform
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Tighter credit rules to halve home loans
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Rise in rental vacancies raises questions about housing shortage and soaring prices: smartcompany
|
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Westpac requires higher deposit for first-home loans
|
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NZ Property investors face double-whammy in tax proposals (must read)
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Notorious spruiker predicts $1M+ medians in 10 years
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More pubs shutting doors due to excessive debt
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Propping up Australian real estate: Bryan Kavanagh (onlineopinon)
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Westpac cuts brokers from RAMS loans - lowers LVRs on mortgages from 90% to 85%
|
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PM admits ageing population may damage economy
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Research house makes questionable property price projections
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Fitch says banks insulated on property prices
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Wealthy migrants pricing locals out of Sydney property market
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Federal government considering giving tax breaks to record profit banks and not its citizens.
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Dubai Debt Crisis Halts Building of World's Largest Indoor Mountain Range: The Onion
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REIV admits housing markets complete failure and can only stay afloat with continual and significant injections by TAXPAYER - Asks For FHBG To Be Doubled
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Population growth estimates are overstated - Monash Uni
|
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CBA freezes mortgage fund after lending loss spike
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"The lack of breadth in the private sector recovery of housing demand is concerning" - Harley Dale
|
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Generous landlords leave rents flat for 2009, but rises in line with inflation expected in 2010 (Yahoo7 news?)
|
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RENTS across Australia stagnated and in some cases even fell in the December quarter
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Stimulus to blame for housing fall - Hockey
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Drop in home loans won't stop interest rates
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Hallellujah: Renting has value!
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Rents set to rise as land values soar :P
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Call that a crisis? Stand by, for the worst is yet to come (SMH)
|
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Parent's property help could harm
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Home buyers hit brick wall, again
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Chinese frustrated by their property bubble
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US Housing Sales plummet
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Carrying too much risk: Bill Gross, Pimco (another entertaining article, especially the introduction discussing the stripping away of democracy)
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Wind goes out of Sydney housing market
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Australian Housing More Unaffordable in 2010: Daily Reckoning
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Housing Sector Hit by Rate Hike
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Debt Australia
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Regulation is first defence against bubbles: Bernanke
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The prices people were prepared to pay for high-risk properties was quite irrational
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House prices are still far above their fair value in many countries: the Economist
|
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"Rudd losing the fight on homeless" - But winning battle to keep the housing bubble going - what a heartless so and so!
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taxes drop, taxes drop, I will not let this bubble pop!
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Debt no problem till credit tap turned off
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Aussies $1.2 trillion in debt
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Debt level enters danger zone
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Collapse in demand as delusional prices cause 64% more potential first home buyers to stay out of the rental market: SMH
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Look out! The Matusik has changed his song.
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New houses to cost $5000 more if Stephen Conroy gets his way.
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Another disincentive for people to invest in real estate. (SMH)
|
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Noughty boys on trading floor led us into debt-laden fantasy: The Guardian via SMH
|
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BIS, HIA and a Real Estate agent amongst many of the nation’s top housing analysts! A vendor’s market!
|
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Victorian home prices overstated
|
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"growth in lending to (housing) investors was fairly subdued" - RBA minutes from December
|
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All Bubbles Pop, No Matter What Color: Mish
|
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BIS - eat your heart out! Boom? What boom?
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The boom is only just beginning - BIS Shrapnel - talk about propaganda onslaught! More signs of growing weakness??
|
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You know things are getting dicey when a very intelligent and well-informed man with a significant vested interest adopts such cheap and obvious trickery
|
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Confidence amongst those with a mortgage fell by 8.9 per cent, while confidence of those who are renting actually increased by 1.6 per cent (SMH)
|
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Rudd champions 'affordable mortgages' (SMH)
|
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A Date for an Aussie House Price Collapse
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Mortgagee in possession properties discounted 40% - following soon lower rents
|
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Pain in the postcodes as interest rates rise (SMH)
|
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Banks at war for our money - NOTE: 6.8% for 12 mnth TD at NAB and Westpac!!!
|
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If rate rises are hurting now, you need a smaller house
|
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Adelaide Auction Sales Ease Off (33 sold from 53 auctions)
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Check out the blog comments on the latest CM/REIQ spruik - only 2 of 32 mildly positive :-))
|
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Property prices on way down, warns bank : SMH
|
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How to keep inflating property prices high in the lucky country
|
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Fed Boss Bernanke Wants Central Banks to Prevent New Bubbles. Is this article a hoax???
|
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ACT Westpac customer complains about having obscene mortgage debt on 3 properties
|
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Mortgages are larger than ever: brokers
|
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More Houses Will Not Solve the Affordability Crisis
|
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"AUSTRALIA must adopt a fairer, more progressive tax system through reforms to capital gains tax and negative gearing allowances, former central bank governor Bernie Fraser says"
|
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New home sales reverting to pre boost levels
|
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Australia trumps US when it comes to Mc Mansions. Worked so well for them, we're doing it even more. SMH
|
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BIS playing the same cracked record. SMH
|
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Shock news: NSW is running out of first home buyers
|
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Million Dollar Homes to be Melbourne's Median Price: REIV
|
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Another city close to biting the dust after the housing bubble burst
|
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Australia has 8 pc more dwellings than households: RBA and ABS
|
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It's now proven: the RBA really do smoke the crack pipe
|
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House Price Rises "Sustainable": RBA
|
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Australian banks fail new capital test
|
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More Shocks to Come, Warns IMF
|
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Shock Report: Tanya Plibersek Has Her "Eye on the Ball."
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High Borrowings in Foreign Currency Puts Us at Risk: the Daily Reckoning
|
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One of China's largest property developers turns bearish
|
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Griffith Rents Increase by 41pc: Canberra Times
|
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House prices falling in line with rent (but not like this)
|
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Investors warm to mortgage debt: RBA
|
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Housing the Bubble that No-one Dares Burst
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Mortgage stress on the rise
|
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Housing as a 'good thing'
|
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Recesson's Lost Youth
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Prof. Hudson in The Age Today (now open for comments as of 1.25PM today!)
|
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Country Commuters Find Border Protection
|
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Elite House Prices Creating a City that Never Sleeps Here
|
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"It is also distressing to see the increasing number of people lacking one of life's basic necessities - a secure roof over their head."
|
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Watch "Addicted to Money" on iview
|
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Banks conflict of interest on show - restricting the funding for developers in an attempt at protecting their residential property loan books from price falls
|
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"The more misguided or reckless the borrowers, the more determined the efforts to help them out" - just a snippet from Legendary Investor Jeremy Grantham's latest newsletter
|
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Some Australians to be priced out forever
|
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Home ownership down, renting up: ABS
|
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Housing stress getting worse - experts
|
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Foreign Investment in Property Makes us all Winners: Government, Media, Property Spruikers
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FHOG "complete waste of money that worked to push up housing prices"
|
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The Daily Reckoning on Interest Rates, Inflation, and Australian House Prices
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Too Little Regulation Causes Credit Crisis; Too Much Causes Credit Crisis - The Australian
|
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Land Charges 'Pricing out Buyers'
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House Prices Jump - Again
|
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Empty nests too high priced for the empty nesters: SMH
|
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What do you know! Out of ammo.
|
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First-home buyers face price caps
|
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Saul Easlake: The RBA Doesn't Target House Prices (so get in now while it's still so cheap!)
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House Prices Leap $6,000 a Month
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We're All Rich!! House Prices Surge as Rate Hike Looms
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NAB's Bad Debt Doubt Hits Bank Shares
|
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RBS, Lloyds and Northern Rock up for Sale (well, only the good bits)
|
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We Failed the GFC Test
|
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Powerbrokers Choke Growth of our Cities
|
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Hong Kong Steps in to Prevent High End Real Estate Bubble
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Foreign Speculation on Our Currency is a Bubble Set to Burst: The Age
|
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NAB banker to FHB "you will need to hurry to get in before there is another rate increase as that will reduce the amount you can borrow" - who said they are lending rationally??
|
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House price gambler: Why should I go broke? Bank should have known I was lying: smh.com.au
|
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Oh noes! Not enough land in Brisbane - say developers!
|
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Hooray! Melbourne Median House Price now $480,000: The Age
|
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For the next decade, Australian equities plus dividends are expected to rise at 9-10%. Can property top that?
|
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Swan says more housing needed for national recovery
|
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8000% increase in vacant Brisbane office space from 2007-2011
|
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Business Migrants Choosing Cheaper Countries
|
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Housing Affordability Worsens: The Age
|
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UK lenders resist tighter lending standards
|
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Rating a culture of Moody's manipulation
|
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This bubble won't last long: businessspectator
|
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What price a home?: SMH
|
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In the wake of housing crisis, what have we learned?
|
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Crashing rents - down 10% in a quarter in Sydney's easters suburbs: SMH
|
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Pain on the Home Front
|
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House Price Rise Forecasts Questioned
|
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Australian property punters betting on permanently low rates
|
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Australia on a sugar high! So.. what do we do next?
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Nothing new in this story - just same old BS from Shrapnel which drew a strong rebuke last time it was run on news.com
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Michael Hudson's interview with Philip Adams on Late Night Live, ABC
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The government thinks houses are a great investment - they just bought 8 billion bucks worth!!
|
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Banks and Newspapers Reckon Prices Will Rise Indefinitely. So there.
|
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NSW obsessed with Mcmansion - type housing
|
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"Resale prices at less than the last sale price continue to be recorded across Sydney,"
|
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Rate rises hit home for vulnerable 225,000: smh
|
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First Homebuyers Drop off; Investors Salivate Like Pavlov's Dogs
|
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Tania Plibersek says there won't be another First Home Vendors Boost (Barefoot Investor) (VIDEO)
|
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Debt a threat to growth, says IMF
|
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Brokers split on prospects for property price growth
|
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Singapore moves quickly to burst the bubble that Greenspan missed
|
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sellers prepared to accept less
|
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When Herds Collide on the Yellow Brick Road (Steve Keen) Worth Reading!
|
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Shock report: Tax concessions to the wealthy are pricing others out of the market
|
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RBA: we cleverly avoided rational house prices but face risk we might move towards undesirably strong growth in Australian housing prices (no. really?): smh
|
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The Previous Housing Price Rise is Good but a Future House Price Rise is Bad: moneymorning.com.au
|
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Spike in house prices this year will "stimulate ... resources away from other sectors of the economy into much-needed housing investment"
|
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The industry wrings its hands as the FHOG is wound back
|
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"Undesirably strong growth in Australian housing prices"
|
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The Economists' gloomy reading
|
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Sydney properties up for auction beats 07 record
|
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Bubble blow-off in Canada
|
|
Home sales soar back
|
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Newsflash: The Next Tsunami Of Aggressively Irresponsible Loans Didn't Magically Disappear (OMG)
|
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No late rush for home grants (SMH)
|
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Global house prices will be subdued as finance remains scarce, and household budgets will be tight, except WE'RE DIFFERENT HERE (SMH)
|
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UK policy to resurrect mortgage markets isn't working: House of Commons report
|
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Middle Australia suffers while Government encourages Chinese investment in empty houses
|
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Life outside the bubble is not good
|
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Bubble recovery in America?
|
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Slimy REAs and govt legislation conspire to sell unaffordable property to foreigners who can
|
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How will failed infrastructure and housing markets cope with a massive population influx??
|
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Farewell and good riddance to the first home owners boost
|
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Banks Dominate Australia's Housing Debt Overhang
|
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End of home owners' grant to hurt prices
|
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What fed the housing bubble
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Tanya Plibersek on QandA. Ask her if she thinks there is any possiblity of a bubble.
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There will be no recovery until debt tumour is excised: SMH
|
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House prices 'need US-style collapse'
|
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Negative gearing costs us $5.6 Billion a year: SMH
|
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China alarmed by American printing machine
|
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US Banking Crisis Part the Second?
|
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$1M Home Sales Slump (drops begins at the top of the market)
|
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Rising defaults will boost property prices... oh hang on.. ( One-third of nation at risk of loan default)
|
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First-home buyers fleeing price infating First home Buyers Bonus
|
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Oh noes! Property market is surging back
|
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More than 24,300 properties were available for rent across Sydney in July
|
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Getting Any Logic from the Property Bulls and Spruikers is Almost an Impossible Task: mponeymorning.com.au
|
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Renters: Stop Walking on Egg Shells: prosper.org.au
|
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Australian Property Sector on Life Support: asxnewbie.com.au
|
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Housing engine spluttering despite unprecedented stimulus - what do we do for encore? Anyone...?
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Deleveraging and Australian Property Prices:stubbornmule.com
|
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...and as house prices have grown, so, too, has our flagship publication. a little honesty from the thedaily.com.au
|
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Fingers crossed, 'she'll be right'
|
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NZ mortgagee sales hit historic high (but Australia is different.... so far)
|
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Plummeting prices open a rare window in the luxury market
|
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Fewer FHOG given out - who would have thought?
|
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low property valuations
|
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Cuts to stamp duty luring investors back into market. (They now make up 2%!!!)
|
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Rudd's Social Housing Con! But I thought helping out strugglers was in Labor's DNA - no, that's collecting "appearance fees" from property developers
|
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Property Buyers Are Not Buying Property At All: Daily Reckoning
|
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When home is a debt trap
|
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Another proof we are different
|
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Shortage schmortage
|
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Unaffordable, but inflating prices is good
|
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Houses of Cards. The latest house price data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics is a little embarrassing.: spectator.co.uk
|
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Home sweet home, a sacred tax shelter: smh.com.au
|
|
Dreams don't come in instalments
|
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Americans have to wait for the next boom.. but we are different anyway
|
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When bursting the bubble is bank's best option
|
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How to repair the sprawl.. re-burb it!
|
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Banks tighten credit to first-home buyers
|
|
First home buyers scrambling to keep up: The Age
|
|
Cheaper to buy than rent (with a big fat deposit from the folks): The Australian
|
|
Hundreds caught in $5m grants rort: smh.com.au
|
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House prices relatively high: Stevens
|
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Bubble by distortion
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TEN's Real Estate Trifecta
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housing recovery to be brief
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upturn may be fizzer
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Punch your way to the Aussie Dream
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Backed by the biggest stimulus program in history, the Chinese property bubble enters the terminal phase
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Sydney prices fall by 7% YoY despite largest direct stimulus in world history
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IMF sees problems here even after global crisis passes: The Australian
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Aussie average new mortgage highest ever: the age
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Top end Gold Coast properties marked down
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de-lever debt. It's going to hurt
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Yay.. depression averted! ... or maybe not.
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1.8 b capital raising to pay our asset right downs goodman
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construction continues to shrink
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Former Rudd staffer lobbied for $1bn for a Brisbane-based non-bank lender
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Truth means more money - Neil Jenman
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The Humble Agent - Neil Jenman
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Property developers attend Ipswich Inc dinner along with Ms Bligh et al one week before the "Government released the draft southeast Queensland regional plan, a document that stood to allow many of those gathered around the table to earn a
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Property website dishing out a good advise
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TWO-THIRDS of Queenslanders believe corruption and cronyism is widespread in the Bligh Labor Government
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..and so the grant continues.
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(Jon Stewart) US house recovery: Or maybe not.
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Property investing in South America has less corrupt processes and procedures than in Queensland
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Not different in Canada either: greaterfool.ca
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Hooray, back to the good old days of 15% house price inflation: smh
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Warning: get off housing gravy train
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Former QLD Labor Treasurer Terry Mackenroth advised company set for urban sprawl windfall
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Canberra times infringes bubblepedia logo
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Home vendors grant - smh
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Come and get your (new home) grants before prices drop (they even published my comment :-)
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Dirty Little Secrets of real estate advertisers editorial influence: media watch
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Govt reveals plan for booming SE Qld
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Rate rise hints as RBA plots exit strategy
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RBA warns of house price bubble "risk"
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Reserve Bank warns of housing market bubble risk
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the 'truth' about house prices
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Steve Keen: Rudd’s essay is on the money (But Mr Rudd conveniently fails to link our burgeoning debt to a housing bubble)
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'False boom' a sign of real estate madness: The Australian
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Kevin Rudd warns homeowners: interest rates to rise fast!
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Home truths about your biggest asset (SMH - Well worth a read)
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UK economy continues to contract
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high density housing for SEQ
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The great australian dream: now or never? Why not tomorrow?
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Interest rate pain set to return in 2010
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third stimulus no charm - tri country sunday
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The bubble deniers
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Super-low interest rates are adding fuel to the property market but beware
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House prices in Whyalla have dropped this financial year.
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Low-end house prices 'to fall 10pc'
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Vendors and agents face big underquoting fines
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Agents to face $1m fines for fake bids
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Who cares about future house prices?
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Rental Squeeze Starting to ease; ABC
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SATYAJIT DAS on the sustainability of China's recovery
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Prestige home prices tumble 40pc
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Don't shoot the messenger, Its not the valuers fault.
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How I bought my first home when only 18 for only 25 times my income.
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Queensland's Labor Bligh Government has spent $1.7 million buying an old house with a land value of just $285,000
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Market tilts in renters' favour (SMH)
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Steady rents give tenants an advantage (SMH)
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Confirmed: rents set to fall (news.com.au)
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Finally - rents are rolling over
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Sub $500k houses forcast to fall by 10%
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Steve Keen sticks to his guns
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The Capitalist Manifesto: Greed is Good (Newsweek)
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Housing stats show this is no seller's market (SMH)
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Oz house prices: a Ponzi scheme waiting to collapse? : domain.com.au
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Theres gold in those hills, I tells you. Big square crystals of pure gold!
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An area to come back to in a few years time. Will they be so happy then?
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Lend Lease Corp acknowledges property prices "likely to drop" (in the short term only, of course....)
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The banks won't lower interest rates enough so the taxpayers will take the excess risk themselves (whether they like it or not)
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First home buyers in NSW increased significantly (even though only 11% of them bought a new home in June)
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For predicting the slump, just a few get medals: the age
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Housing too much for 'even key workers'
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Building slump threatens builders, speculators: smh
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Private home prices dip 5.9% : Straits Times
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Land tax reform rehouses a flawed focus on rational
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New home sales fall with FHB activity - but the lack of flow through to housing construction and jobs won't stop the lobbying for a "10th home buyer grant"!
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Nuttall case exposing the close links between Queensland ALP politicians and property developers
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Our housing Minister really has no idea
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New mortgage owners cant afford 2nd cup of coffee
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Home truths about panic buying (Ross Gittins: SMH)
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Commonwealth Bank under pressure to lift home loan rates (could raise interest rates by 0.6% above whatever RBA does)
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For those of us who sold to rent, we have a name - The Bubble Sitters
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Grants create a false promise of home being built in a day: the age
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Banks and Credit Unions (etc) pledge to prop up the market for as long as possible (SMH)
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The boost, NRAS and social housing all FAIL to result in more building and jobs - why? - because it was really aimed at soaking up the overhang of ALREADY BUILT new houses!!!
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Worse to come for Australian economy, says Harry Dent - house prices down 40%
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Banks in damage control: Robert Gottliebsen
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Over half (55%) of buyers looking to spend less than $400K
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NAB's Chief Economist Alan Oster sees house prices down 5-10% over the next 12 months
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The data proves it - the boost was all about soaking up the inventory of already built new homes!
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House price forecast 'inaccurate'
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Cheaper to buy than rent in Canberra? Only if you believe the REIA
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Housing crash not on the radar now...
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BIS forecast last year - House prices to rise 2008/09 (oops!) - see homes4aussies forecast thread for more discussion
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..home loan rates, the only way is up. (SMH)
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Now for the "no stamp duty" boost!? (SMH)
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One more spruiker, selling hot air
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Minimum wage grossly underestimates the rental costs for low-income families
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homes4aussies forecasts spot on - updated forecast for Brisbane
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Novice buyers' wings clipped
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Non-FHBs buy even fewer houses
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Large recent falls mean that it can't get any lower.....right? (more wishful thinking from Queensland)
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QLD reposessions at record levels as well....
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Huge land deals 'illegal': smh
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First-home boost wears off (SMH)
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Home loan reposessions rising in SA
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Positive GDP number - the one that kept us out of recession (sarcasm) - due to more statistical trickery: there's a surprise!!!
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OZ GDP growth driven by deficit consumption, not investment in productive capacity
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Michael Pascoe - House prices NOT tipped to slide....
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House prices tipped to slide
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Rising unemployment will hit house prices
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Property no longer safe as houses
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From the subprime to the terrigenous: Recession begins at home: LVRG (discusses the fact that the bubble bursting preceeds the recession everywhere)
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Clearance rates are up (just don't mention price or turnover)
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A month free when landlord defaults: smh.com.au
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UDIA says Queensland housing crash NOT yet bottomed because banks still not lending!
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Buyers' grant a blunt device for sharp tools
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Barefoot Investor Scott Pape
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The financial crisis is wreaking havoc on Gold Coast property and businesses - SMH
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We're property developers so I need not say anymore
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Aus house prices bounce back (RP Data)
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The downside of the first homeowners' grant with financial advisor and author Scott Pape (Audio)
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Home Prices Down 32% from Peak: seekingalpha
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"Housing recovery soon" : HIA (They have got to be kidding!)
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The Great Mortgage Gamble
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Let's pretend it's all OK and see if it goes away: smh.com.au
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If the banks get tougher, will prices start falling?: domain.com.au
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FHOG Goes International: earthsharing
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Buying at these prices leaves families "two pay cheques" from homeless
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Rudd "owns" the bubble - now for the bigger pop!
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First home buyers borrow big and bubble the market
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Job security impacting on home market: news.com.au
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Foreign bank operations may change: HSBC: brisbane times
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There was four in the bed, so the council said... : brisbane times
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Points of no return: Barefoot Investor
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End of housing bubble major reason for Queensland credit downgrade - not that anybody is reporting it !!
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Bad banking turns crazy - Banks tightening lending criteria, this time for real!
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WAToday: Sellers Bowing to Pressure in Perth Property Price Fall
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holiday houses the first to go
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Home sellers having to substanially cut the price
|
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Southern Californian median home price has fallen 51%
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From the Financial Review
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Why renting rocks ... and will continue to: domain.com.au
|
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First home savings accounts a flop - of course they are when Rudd is bribing kids with our taxpayer dollars to foolishly buy with or without minimal savings!!!
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Dwelling prices fall 3.9pc in Sydney, 8.2pc in Adelaide and 13.6pc in Hobart in just 3 months (according to CBA loan data)
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Apparently FHBs are still buying at auction (either that or vendors have stopped selling at auction)
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Market forces take "at least 25%" from top-end rents
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Plibersek hopeful housing market 'won't suffer'in quick painless death when grant dropped
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Rudd advisers criticise home buyers grant: smh.com.au
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Dreaded return of the property spruiker: the Australian
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AGE: Crisis Hits Millionaire's Row
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Swan wimps out to property lobby: earthsharing
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1000 lucky speculators will get to offload to NSW government: smh.com.au
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Home boost extension surprises economists: ABC Radio mp3
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Betting on the house: profit from the madness: smh.com.au
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It's getting better in the US to...
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Grant delights home-seeker
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Another 6 months....
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Rudd pushes a generation of buyers into a debt crisis
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Wish it would end up like this...
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In praise of renters (excellent article)
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Despite ridiculous interest rates and insane FHBGs credit growth sinks to 15-year low
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Despite the incredible shortage Victorian builders do not have enough work. Incredible they can't work this one out!
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Now the downturn hits downunder (our bubble is the same as everybody elses)
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Spike then plunge, if first-home grant ends
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Brisbane house prices too dear for southerners
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It's not different on our islands..
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Buyers' grants driving prices up: smh.com.au
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Genesis of the debt disaster
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'My home was like a cash machine' : bbc.co.uk
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Blame this crisis on the myth of inflation: timesonline.co.uk
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Melbourne's inner east hit hardest by house price plunge: heraldsun.com.au
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A Long Time Before Investors Will Gamble on Housing Debt: dailyreckoning.com.au
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Yale's Robert Shiller on the Outlook for Home Prices: time.com
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How panic gripped the world’s biggest banks: ft.com
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House price drop to 'lengthen Australia's recession': abc.net.au
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It’s official: house prices falling off a cliff: crikey.com.au
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Shoebox in Sydney or a chateau in France: smh.com.au
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Perth's housing horror: WA News
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Housing will lead recovery
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City dwellers sinking into debt
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Victorian first home buyers grant for established homes reduced
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Let's keep the Vic bubble going...
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Video - Is there a bubble & will it burst?
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Australian house prices show biggest improvement in 23 years, 6.7 fall YoY
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Home prices plunge, despite cash boost: the age
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Latest ABS figures show improvement in prices, falling 2%
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Renters Scaling Back (the flexible demand side in action!)
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First home buyers slugged: theage
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Professor Stephen King says the problem might be debt (ha!!)
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Victorian house prices enjoy biggest improvement in 40 years: heraldsun
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All major capital cities show falls YoY: March data
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Perth house price improvements best in Australia: WA today
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House prices down 4% in a year: smh.com.au
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House price drop to 'lengthen Australia's recession': abc.net.au
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Property bubble 'set to burst': theage
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Australian Recession: The worst is yet to come: smh
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CBA's Ralph Norris says FHOG scheme should not be extended
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Government lobby groups squabble over bailout money
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Banks to suffer when housing market cracks
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Banks squeeze home owners to save profits: smh
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The Worst is Yet to Come (but it needs to happen)
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Pass the parcel game ruined as music stops: smh.com.au
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Mortgage defaults poised to soar: smh
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Thousands living on borrowed time: smh.com.au
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What needs to happen is the market to fall; better still: crash. : The Australian
|
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Don't get sucked in by the increase in the first home owners grant, prices will come crashing down. David Koch
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More lose homes as job losses bite: the age
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Ending the home grant may be the kindest cut: smh
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Don't try and stop the housing crash, Bank of England official warns Darling: Mail Online
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HeraldSun: Home, Toxic Home - Grants Inflate Bubble - Hallelujah!
|
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Did Steve Keen hack house price gamber TV on domain.com? (Look through your fingers until the middle)
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FIRST-HOME buyers desperately hoping Kevin Rudd does not extend the boost: the Australian
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Good news: negative amortisation "assistance" only to the handful of people who need it and aren't cactus: Daily Telegraph
|
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Australia in good shape to face slump. It's different here because it's still like it was everywhere else until it wasn't: RBA
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IS THE proper response to a collapsing market bubble an effort to reinflate it: smh editorial
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Grant risks bringing down the house: the australian
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Sydney house prices in landslide, approaching top of cliff: news.com.au (March 08)
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Bottom-end bubble: Heraldsun
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Worldwide Housing Market Bust, Who is the ‘Greater Fool’ Now? : marketoracle.co.uk
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US prices "getting better all the time" - just a little more slowly now. barrons.com
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genuine supply and demand: ABC unleashed
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Dramatic fall in confidence in Oz real estate market: propertywire.com
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Tanner admits FHBG was in part designed to prop up prices
|
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Singapore: Property sales and rentals down across the board
|
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End speculation on FHBGBoost, HIA. (ABC)
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FH Boost to stay...and we all pay
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Let's hope this is true!
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Now the phoney wars past, it will all be over by Christmas.
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Deadline looms for first homebuyers' grant: abc
|
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Housing affordability: Radio National discussion
|
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The Australian housing bubble: the view from the OECD: the brown couch
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Taking it for granted: blogs.theage.com.au
|
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How Australia loses $1 trillion a year
|
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Breaking news - property prices forecast to rise in 2010 due to.. due to..... what?
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The crash is only beginning.
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Australia is somewhat different, Jessica begins to see the light but cannot let go. smh.com.au.
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NAB: A 4-Pillar Bank With Limitless Incompetence: Money Morning
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Cure to the global economic crisis is worse than the disease: The Australian
|
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Many pessimistic about buying home
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Commercial property a big hole for Big Four: NAB
|
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Australian Housing Market Only Asset Class Capable of Upward Movement: Money Morning
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WA homebuyers throw in the towel: WANews
|
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Economic depressions for dummies
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FHOG Sucker Punches Gen X/Y: earthsharing
|
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Canada seeing rise in foreclosures:
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Mr. Soddy’s Ecological Economy :NYT
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Half of Victorians and Tasmanians believe the great Australian dream of owning a home is out of reach (SMH)
|
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First-home buyers swamping banks: SMH
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Tanya Plibersek doesn't answer any of our questions about the FHOG increasing the prices of houses (Video): Nation Building Site
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Banks must take their medicine, and shareholders need to feel the pain: SMH
|
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Brisbane property sales down 31.9% - The Courier Mail
|
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NO-DEPOSIT home loans are officially dead (SMH)
|
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Home ownership: shelter, or burden? (The Economist)
|
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Governments’ obsession about home ownership has contributed as much to the meltdown as any moustache-twirling financier (The Economist)
|
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Australia still in top 3 price-to-rent ratio worldwide
|
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Canberra Times - Rents stable
|
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Latest Household Wealth Decline - RBA Statistics (looks a lot like we are following the USA to me!)
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Tenants 'haggling' as rents fall in the UK
|
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Perth house auction prices off 170 000 in three months. (Entertaining to see the same rubbish reporting on the way down.)
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Dangerous Brew: vanguard.com.au
|
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Australia's property market headed towards an epic fall
|
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Tight supply limits house price falls: RBA has drunk the Kool-Aid: smh.com.au
|
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Negative gearing on the way out: The Australian
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Tax attacks: ABC unleashed
|
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Property crashes as first-quarter home sales, prices and clearances slump
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More than 42,000 Australians take up First Home Owners Boost: Tanya Plibersek
|
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The anti-bankruptcy softening-up begins in preparation for whe wave of property speculators who will lose their shirts
|
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you are seeing the blow-off phase of Australia's property bubble
|
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Government meddling continues
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FHB = Oz Sub Prime
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It's not just the official unemployment rate to look at
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Increase in FHOG has increased price of new homes: Courier Mail
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Surprise, surprise. Banks still doing dodgy lending: news.com.au
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and rents are falling now too. Who would have thought?
|
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Real Estate New laws to prevent market prices of houses
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A pox on all their Porsches: the Australian
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Trapped in the bubble: life's tough for real estate virgins: smh
|
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Homes going "cheap" in property glut: smh
|
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Humoungous rise in unemployment, I don't like the sound of that!, ABC
|
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Mccrann lets the cat out of the bag...Rudd is setting a dangerous trap for FHB
|
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Debt Financed Gov. Grants for Everybody - Let's Make the Looming Glut Really Spectacular - For now, we can just pretend a little bit longer?
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Marginal 1st Home Buyers The Only Thing Keeping The Housing Bubble From Imploding Bottom Up
|
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What the Big4 have in store
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If only it was so easy to sink a house...
|
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Are we finally running out of suckers?
|
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Sydney land glut revealed: architectureanddesign.com.au
|
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Home values set to double in 10 years
|
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No change (leftover from speculation) for nappies: the Sun Herald
|
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Must Read: Steve Keen’s Debtwatch No. 33 April 2009: Lies, Damned Lies, and Housing Statistics (Bubblepedia makes a mention!)
|
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HTW - Month in Review April (pdf)
|
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Departing ANZ banker takes a shot at property players: the age
|
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Property developers make a big profit in Afghanistan: smh.com.au
|
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MORTGAGE lenders are slashing loan ratios in a bid to protect themselves against falling house prices
|
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As unemployment rises, it is likely that the supply/demand situation in Australia will reverse, so there will be more properties than buyers - a classic sign of a property bubble: Martin North, Fujitsu Consulting
|
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Unemployed while your asset prices are falling? Don't worry, government and banks agree to let you keep growing your debts faster than ever: smh.com.au
|
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WA prices reach the bottom again: thewest.com.au
|
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Luxury homes off market, offered for rent: couriermail
|
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Aus banks: We should not be regulated because stopping us from doing stupid dangerous things would make us less profitable and we don't do those things so we don't need to be stopped and we shouldn't because it would decrease our profits. (
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In this time of artificially low interest rates and temporary grants, and disregarding rates, maintenance, insurance, depreciation and capital losses it still costs 25-50% more to own than to rent so you should buy!: businessspectator
|
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All grant, no grunt: heraldsun
|
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Ask the minister for house prices always go up a question: economicstimulusplan.gov.au (!?!) please all respond
|
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It's still different here, see, now it won't fall as far: The Australian
|
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A light through the FHOG (or: Down with the Boost): the brown couch
|
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Merryn Somerset Webb: Investing: ft.com
|
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First-home rush keeps prices on boil - even agents warn that people are paying too much: smh.com.au
|
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It's clearcut - buying is more expensive than renting: homes4aussies
|
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Owners struggling to sell "affordable" Adelaide houses: the advertiser
|
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How many homes are there?: couriermail
|
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University warns Brisbane property market is at risk of significant declines
|
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Singapore home prices fall 19.9% in 6 months: Straits Times
|
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To Buy or Not to Buy?: Jenman
|
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First-home grant a '$25bn time bomb'
|
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GFC truck derby: abc.net.au
|
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RBA STILL calling that IT'S DIFFERENT HERE
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CBA cuts LVRs to 90%
|
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Empty building sites spoil Wollongong: illawarramercury.com.au
|
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Ask the minister for house prices always go up a question on live TV: abc QandA
|
|
Beachside apartments fail to sell: The Australian
|
|
AUSTRALIA'S SUBPRIME INVESTORS
|
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The magic of finance to solve affordability problems. More nonsense from Chris Joye.
|
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Further evidence that the Reserve Bank has no idea
|
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Cory's Comment - First Home Buyers Grant: A pollie dares to tell it how it is.
|
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First home buyer price surge fear: TheAdvertiser?
|
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20-somethings could regret using the homebuyers' grant: crikey
|
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Housing crisis worsens and rents are set to soar (say those with vested interests)
|
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Shilling predicts US house prices will fall another 20% between now and the end of 2010
|
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One third of repossessions this year predicted to be First Home Buyers
|
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Someone calls the bottom of the US housing market: The Australian
|
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When tenants go bad Gallery: (Good idea, we need a when landlords go bad gallery here!)
|
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Foreclosures through the roof in Vic
|
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Good news: Despite British CPI of +2.5%, housing becomes cheaper: smh.com.au
|
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FHB Boost is Australia’s “Sub-prime Liteâ€: debtdeflation.com
|
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Our own 'sub-prime' home crisis: dailytelegraph
|
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Economists, industry groups disagree on future house prices, ABC
|
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Y we are buyers: Herald Sun
|
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Picture Gallery: Scenes from the recession
|
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Days of capital gains are gone: SMH
|
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The collapse of 2009: Daily Reckoning
|
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American man, 88, shoots real estate agent
|
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It's official: Houses in Toorak more overvalued compared to other places: Herald Sun
|
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Real estate is a 'holders market' LOL: SMH
|
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Rents rose in one year (even though they won't rise as much last year) QUICK Buy a House! (Herald Sun)
|
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Canberra rents have hit a plateau: Canberra Times
|
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Housing market: bubble or buy: SMH
|
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Home loan bar rises from it's all time low: smh
|
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new home sales slump, ABC
|
|
Time to get in the Townsville rental trap
|
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The squeeze is on
|
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HIA & RP Data call for government to stimulate $half million to $800,000 market - Seriously, what next?? Tax incentives for billionaires to buy $30 million houses
|
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"A perfect storm of a positive nature" - Bubbles are a good thing now!
|
|
First-home buyers in the eye of a storm:smh
|
|
Worst is yet to come but banks strong, says Norris:smh
|
|
Debt-laden mortgage belts face battler hell
|
|
New 'battler' suburbs named in report
|
|
REIQ admits that it's a big pyramid scheme! FHBs are the suckers at the bottom.
|
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Developer cuts prices by 25%
|
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Grants distort lending in the housing market: crikey
|
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Everybody Knows FHBG
|
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The Daily Show
|
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ANZ slashes jobs, head of bankers association claims that banks recieved not a cent of help from govt, ABC
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Maxine Mcqew: No housing bubble, it's the best buying in a very long time. THE REAL ESTATE AGENTS AND PRESS ADS TOLD ME SO! Look out for "Bubbles" John Symond's It's different here call too! (video around 25 min in): abc.net.au
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House prices may fall by a further 55 percent and there is a "very real probability" that Britain will be bankrupted
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Boomers' Future Went Down The Drain (Lucky it's different here): globaleconomicanalysis
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Low-end property owners reap benefits: news
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Panic: The Story of Modern Financial Insanity: blogotariat
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The Real Estate Bust: how to know exactly what will unfold next: prosper.org
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Thousands of foreigners splurge stimulus overseas. You paid for this insanity. smh.com.au
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QLD defies all predictions as prices rise (according to REIQ)
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The Credit Crisis Visualized: Worth Watching!
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Housing industry association calls it how it is, ABC
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IMF chief says world gripped by 'great recession'
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We're in the Great Recession: IMF
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still too early to tell how ou banks will fare: money morning.
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Building downturn hits city, suburbs: the advertiser
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Breaking in on the rent seekers: Bryan Kavanagh, the age
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Here's noticing that Rory Robertson's going to take his his hike: smh
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The Age - "House Prices To Fall"
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Victorian auction activity down 70%
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Hooray, were the only ones going all the way to the MOOOOON: Chris Joye businessspectator
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It's a hangover: take the medicine: smh.com.au
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Job ads crash: smh.com.au
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Brissie house prices drop 2.9% in Dec quarter - but if we just put it in a table, perhaps nobody will notice
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Captains did not see the iceberg: the age
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Can't happen here in Australia though because it's not, um, New Zealand...
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Latest on the economy: we’re all &@#$?!
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Confidence on SBS Insight
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Rental growth is expected to taper off and vacancy rates to increase: the australian
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Bombshell - Herald-Sun: Five key Housing reports 'hidden' - Statistics? What "Statistics"?
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Townsville - North by Name - South by Price
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EXTENDING the boost to the first home owners grant would help the industry to pretend for just a little longer, industry groups say. news.com.au
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NSW Housing Minister David Borger urges financial suicide. smh.com.au
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Toorak's millionaires' row faces a fire sale
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In the 12 months to September, the average sale price in Portland fell nearly 6 per cent and by 4 per cent in nearby Ballarat.
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interest rates are at the lowest they have been in years, house prices are dropping
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house prices in country Victoria dropped 2 per cent between July and September last year
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Melbourne median price, increases by 3.1% from only 485k last year....
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.... to the slightly higher 433k this year: REIV (Umm, umm, hang on...)
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WESTERN Sydney is in the grip of a property mini-boom. Turnover's up, ads are up, comissions are up, just don't mention the prices. dailytelegraph
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On the quality of TV financial advice: thedailyshow.com
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Glut of unsold apartments defies the shortage
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Shock news: Home loan lenders want FHOG extended news.com.au
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Out of Work? Dominos offers laid-off workers a pizza the action
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Grants help teens into a loan of doom. Parental permission required for next year's round of suckers: the age
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ABC Lateline Business - Property market plays pivotal role in Australia's economic downturn
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ABC Lateline Business - World Bank Economist Andrew Burns joins Lateline Business
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Recession is going to get worse: heraldsun
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Why Rents Should Be Higher Than Mortgages
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Property sales index points to home-grown recession: LVRG
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Treasurer Wayne Swan: "We would be kidding ourselves if we think we are immune from the impact of what is going on in the global economy".
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Herald Sun - Does Subsidy (First Home Buyer's Grant) Opne doors?
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Ratings blow for banks
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Debtwatch No. 32: Is Rudd the new Whitlam?
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Aussie house prices continued to fall in December (as always, check out the title of the release for a giggle)
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1950s houses returning
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Our shrinking backyards: smh
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Negative equity surges in the UK
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weekly property 'news'
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Now is the time to pick and choose: SMH
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US economy suffers sharp nosedive, ABC
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Shiller: House Prices Still Way Too High
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No end to gloom until the US fixes its banks - Gittins rediscovers our residential property price bubble: smh
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10,000 jobs to go
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World renowned Scottish historian Niall Ferguson joins Lateline to discuss the unpredictable patterns of financial markets throughout history and the lessons learnt
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ABC - Lateline - Federal Industry Minister delivers dire jobs warning - "No-one's job is safeâ€
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On the idiocy of bailouts: HeraldSun?
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Web site - Niall Ferguson, MA, D.Phil., Professor of Economic History at Harvard University
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Govt warns of more job shedding as manufacturers struggle
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5000 jobs set to be axed
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Senator Kim Carr Minister for industry policies - "I wouldn’t say anyone’s job is safeâ€
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But the RBA told us there was no building overhang - confirmation the stimulus package really was a bailout (surprise, surprise!)
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Our housing minister owns three 'residences': open australia, register of members interests
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Treasury chief Ken Henry gives bleak economic outlook - Global situation 'very dangerous'
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14% of pensioners have assets over $1.6 million: time to include houses in the means test. smh
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Home-buyer grants on shaky foundations: the age
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Try doing nothing: Business Spectator
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REIWA admits the game is up for joke vacancy rates as prices crash: perthnow
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Kevin Rudd 'must explain $8 billion missing from Building Australia Fund': news.com.au
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First home grant may stymie housing recovery: The Australian
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Its all happening: America goes for the Zimbabwe solution and Macdonalds overtakes Soveriegn credit rating in UK and Ireland, ABC
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Auction sales down 60% in Sydney and 90% in Melbourne on a year ago - clearly a recovery on the way: the Australian
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Can't spend on infrastructure because we gave it out in handouts and propping up house prices, ABC
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Judge tears up $1m property contract
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Mirvac: Land is for Hocking, Not Housing : earthsharing.
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3% + FHOG that should stave off negative equity for a month or two..., ABC
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Looks like some are relying on the government extending the FHOG increase
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The US is just starting to figure it all out, there is hope for Australia yet!
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Property Sales Dry Up (news.com.au)
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Martin Place stand up comedian: Housing will lead economic upturn.
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Nine - Today Tonight - Changing Times - Must See
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PBS - Frontline - Inside The Meltdown - Must See
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Steve Keen's take on the neo-liberalism debate (focused mainly on housing)
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I'm confused! Is this what we should call doom-spruiking-gloom ?
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Politician uses the words "property bubble" and Australian Property Investment magazine repeats them.
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Thumbs Down: Financial Standard
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No zero rates : Adelaide Advertiser
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Bad debts to spread, wonder what will happen to RE prices?
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Learn from Japan? : abc
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The bubble has been explained to our industry. They know what's going on: RMIT.
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Moral Hazard on Main Street
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property prices *should* be half to two-thirds of what they are today
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Australian House Prices Are Severely and Seriously Unaffordable
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Warning that house prices may fall by 80%: irishtimes.com
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Invest - go on, I dare you
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RBA steps away from aggressive rate cuts, ABC
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Hang on. I thought there was a shortage of industrial premises in Perth?
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Australian economy to sink with Japan
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Japan plunges into depression
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The 2009 Bull Boom
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REIQ President - Concerned of what will happen in June when FHOG expires.
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Herald Sun: Fixed Rate Is Costly - So, who is benefiting from the 'rate cuts' ?
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Investment properties making a comeback: but only if you can keep your job, have at least 40% deposit, and are pretty sure we won't hit recession - which we will
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Housing cash injection to allow developers to get out at last year's prices: smh
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Herald-Sun: Housing Market Data Has To Be Improved
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Consumer sentiment dips despite rate cut
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Tenants told to bargain on rents: smh
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ABC - Lateline - Bank of England governor warns of deep recession
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ABC - 4 Corners - The Perfect Storm
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Groudhog day: Gold Coast property developer goes bust: brisbane times
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A reflated bubble still bursts: the age
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Groundhog day: Boral doesn't see housing recovery before mid-year: smh
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Surprise! Three more building companies have collapsed in NSW :news.com.au
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Rental yields a fools gold: but don't tell the AFR: Crikey
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IMF Says Advanced Economies Already in Depression
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The future buyers of overpriced houses in Australia: financially unfit Gen Y'ers: The Australian
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The Sun Herald really try to make paying a mortgage look cheaper than renting but forget to mention 'opportunity cost': The Sun Herald
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Melissa Ketchell publishes some dodgy looking house price data without providing the source: The Courier Mail
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No insulation against bitter reality. (Oh, so it's not different here).
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"Mr Mason said reducing the price by $15,000 wouldn't have the same impact as the idea of a free car." LOL - news.com.au
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(Recognised) Bad loans reach an 18-year high:
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Schools seize homes over fees: smh.com.au
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Bank reassures rate cut horror over
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The Global Financial Crisis is, as much as anything, just one big bad property bust.: the age
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Housing Tumbles Again
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Biggest dip for house prices in 23 years
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Global recession - where did all the money go?
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Mum ready to go shopping for investment property: (clever Kirsten Friedli's looking for an investment property to buy) the Australian
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Mum's not a local real estate chain's marketing manager now is she? (large pdf warning - Kirsten Friedli forgot to tell the Aus she is a REA marketing director)
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Opposition says no to stimulus package
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Opposition won't support stimulus plan
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Banks tighten home lending rules
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Does Kevin Rudd Need To Save Families From Capitalism?
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Howard’s Brutopia
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PM's leftist manifesto a risky business pitch
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'Ugly year ahead' despite stimulus package
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Vic house prices drop 10% in a year
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Seems to me we have a dissenter! Get him!
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And yet, House prices continue to fall: brisbane times
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There is no bubble, because it hasn't popped yet. The Australian: by Christopher Joye, who sells shared equity loans, so he really isn't cactus, no he really really isn't, there is a shortage of housing and hoards of rich immigrants will..
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It's not a surprise that the capital cities that have suffered most from the bubble are improving a little bit more now: smh.com.au
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Aussie house prices fall
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Government's second stimulus package
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Will the “global tsunami†of job cuts wash into Australia?
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British pawnbrokers cash in on credit crisis
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Now I'm confused! Didn't IMF say it is not happening?!
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Permanent High Plateau - my foot. Hey IMF - shove this in your pipe and smoke it.
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IMF: "Different" Australia reaches permanently high plateau: smh
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Stop whining, end the scheming, reduce the spending and start saving: interest.co.nz
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Gillard shines at Davos international comedy festival: smh
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SATURDAY INSIGHT: Our problems are worse - much worse : Peter Martin
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WA property bubble 'has burst': perth now
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Australian housing bubble 'yet to burst' (news.com.au)
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Property market downturn (ABC)
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Good News: THE government's funding boost for first home buyers did little to arrest an eight per cent fall in residential property prices during 2008, research has found. news.com.au
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Silvertail suburbs hurt the hardest: smh
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REIV says VIC house prices down 10% in 08, ABC
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The money is not coming back. Let it go, already.
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Property experts question lending practices during boom. (When will they say bubble, not boom?)
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Andrew Fraser has an idea, ABC (see discussion forum)
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Good News: FHOG might not be extended past June '09.
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NZ house prices up 50% this year - apparently
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2bn creates Public housing for 6000 (Greens Proposal), ABC
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They are calling it a construction fund again! Commercial bail out guys, call a spade a spade, ABC
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Just when you were feeling cranky about bailing out commercial realestate, the HIA lobbies for housing construction bailed out (even more): Business Spectator
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Seniors and unemployed struggling with rent (comments - some landlords actually advocating bunching up)
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Leading indicators point to a recession, The Age
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Foreclosures to rise as jobs go
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A very poor piece of financial journalism: the Age
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Labours plan is having a lend of us all, The Australian
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Not too much leed time, they want to squander it all in their term no doubt, ABC
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Check out the comments to this spruiker's "story"! (Housing Affordability), ABC
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Crisis to last 10+ years. Curious to see how Australia can avoid the pit for that long.
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Real Estate Institute accused of hyping rental crisis to lure buyers: TheAge?
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Bailouts are only for house price gamblers, car salesmen, office price gamblers, not hospitals: smh.com.au
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World like early 1931 but not yet 1933: Ambrose Evans-Pritchard?
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Need a quick way to lose $5.5M: buy a beachfront property: news.com.au
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Your answer: Getting a second job: is it worth it? (or a third to pay off the mortgage)
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Australian housing bubble 'yet to burst' - news.com.au
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Australia housing "severely unaffordable", bubble will burst
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Rents Through the Roof.... compared to 3-5 years ago
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Britain in first recession since 1991
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Obama pitches plan to save US economy
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Herald-Sun: Melbourne prices dive 10%, repossessions rise 22%
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Glut of listings = good news?
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Homeowners defaulting on council rates (so much for low mortgage rates saving their bacon!)
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Generational Dymanics
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Global economic outlook worsens
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Govt bailout for commercial property (already underway), The West Australian
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Brissie house sales slump (but areas mentioned not as bad as some others): Ketchell in CM
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Housing market 'recovery' not until 2011 now: couriermail.com.au
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Worse economic news to come
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Rudd gives advisers bonus despite wages warning
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SQM Vacancy Rates On-line Database
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SQM Research releases December 2008 Vacancy Rates Nationwide
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Canberra rental squeeze over even with 30% underreported of actual vacancies.
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Some sense at last - but only for commercial property
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Brisbane house prices expected to drop 15%: couriermail.com.au
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Builders expecting job cuts, says MBA
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News from China worsens jobs outlook
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Debt Disaster - Reuters Blog (a beauty)
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"The govt will not sit on its hands" K Rudd, ABC
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Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble: Alan Kohler
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Rental prices in Perth expected to drop, ABC
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Economic downturn stops hefty rent hikes in SEQ
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WA Premier proposes spending public money to bail out house price gamblers after mine closure. ABC
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Rent rises halted: the age
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Obama vows government openness
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Lower rates fail to keep the bubble economy alive as debt junkies learn to pay down debt: smh.com.au
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Sydney apartment rents stagnating, but house wishing rents rise as deluded sellers give up to become deluded landlords : smh.com.au
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Mortgages responsible for 50% of credit crisis counselling customers
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Trouble if foreign banks call in debts.
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Rudd urges employers to avoid staff cuts
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Freeze pay to save economy, says Prime Minister Kevin Rudd
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China slowdown to prolong Aussie pain
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State facing 'scary times'
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Bad news (for some) must be told: the age
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Global crunch forces overseas students out (bad news for housing). Why does the education section get the news before the property section?
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Forecaster predicts gloomy 2009
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Maybe things will be okay in Australia. Maybe the fact that our banks are still solvent and functioning will keep unemployment down and house prices up which will keep the banks solvent and functioning and keep unemployment down and house p
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State opp (WA) calls for more govt intervention in house price declines, ABC
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Australia may hit the Deflation curve! (link now fixed sorry folks)
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Global banks urged to toughen up their stress-testing: smh
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Property market in free fall: the Australian
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Perth's best discounts revealed: WAtoday
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Andrew Fisher: Cold turkey for the debt junkies
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Grant slows price declines allowing gamblers to get out: the australian
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Red hot bargains spark deflation warning (See comments by Steve Keen), ABC
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Super bear warns on US and china
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Don't be blown away by winds of change (Advising not to leverage up just because you can), The Age
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Swan warns economy will shake jobs
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Property turned the corner (alternative headline - property to fall further!), ABC
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Aussie House Prices Must Fall: FNArena
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House of Cards, Business Spectator
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Luxury beach properties prices adrift, The Australian
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Grant stems housing slide, The Australian
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What Will Save the Suburbs? (NYT)
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Rudd pressured to extend home grant
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More evidence that the Brisbane housing bubble has popped: homes4aussies
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Somebody else biting the bullet and actually "renting out" a holiday home
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Jessica Irvine's New Year's Resolution
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Unemployment to hit 6 percent
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It's Canberra's Yearly Rental Crisis (again): canberratimes.com.au
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Thousands of first home buyers 'lured' into the market: The Courier mail
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60 percent of people no longer believe property only ever goes up: news.com.au
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Jobs most likely to disappear this year - Real Estate agents, car salesmen, investment bankers
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Builders dropping their pants ever so slightly. (CM - confused spruiking?)
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Tanya Plibersek who are you really trying to help? ABC
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Not to be out-spruiked by the Courier Mail: Brisbane Times tells us First Home Buyers will rescue the property market in Australia
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Speculators quick to say land values falling to reduce land tax payable: SMH
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"A lot of the landlords in this area are still stuck in the mentality that they're sitting on a gold mine." The Courier Mail
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Shock Slump (in WA) to Approvals 44pc over 2008, The West Australian
|
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US economy is dire, warns Obama
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Spruikers are losing the expectation war.
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Obama's bleak economic warning
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Housing Bubbles And Market Sense: scoop.co.nz
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Financial crisis drives coast holiday unit price slump (but it is just more spruiking - Melissa Ketchell)
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Handouts, concessions keep first-home buyers in market (Courier Mail - keeping the spruiking streak going!)
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Scam of the Century: whocrashedtheeconomy.com
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Physicist applies for sweeper's job
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SA newspapers deny global downturn : the Advertiser
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This homeowner loves your card: smh
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1000 elderly Australians going broke each week. smh.com.au
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Speculate on other people's pain: Melissa Ketchell: The Courier Mail
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WA Housing approvals slumps 30%!
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The stats are in: it's confirmed, the increased FHBG is an absolute waste of money: The Australian
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13pc slump new homes approval, ABC
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I guess Australia is not all that different, is it?: The Courier Mail
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Housing market slumps in Brisbane: couriermail.com.au
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Real-estate agents top list of consumer complaints: Brisbanetimes.com.au
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Joye of RP Data - house sales lowest in at least 12 years, but that's a good thing (read through comments)
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Oh no! We're Melting... meeeeltiiiing! (HIA)
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Home sales slow, ABC News
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Zero growth in China unlikely in 2009 (Bloomberg)
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New home sales slide: smh.com.au
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Realty Rebound a remote hope, The West Australian
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Housing market worst in 20 years, The West Australian
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75% making home loan repayments 'easily', ABC News
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Immigration, lack of home building and a strong economy will keep housing market from falling: marketoracle.co.uk
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(Literally) poor real estate agents: Melissa Ketchell
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Why banks won't lend (The Guardian - UK)
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Who Saw The Housing Bubble Coming?: forbes.com
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Centrebets odds for recession in Australia, 2009.
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US house prices, plotted as a roller coaster.
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Find the senator with the most investment properties: openaustralia.org
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Prepare for a year that is unlikely to be happy: the age
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Babyboomer profound long term effect on share prices (so too housing): The Sunday Telegraph
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2008: the year the penny dropped: abc.net.au/unleashed
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How to pick a Ponzi scheme (amazing track records, aggressive sales)
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Even real-estate agents admit prices have declined steeply in premium suburbs.: SMH
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It's grim down the South Coast for the well-off SMH (check former property reporter's confession)
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US Bubble bloggers happily made redundant. HousingPANIC
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Credit crunch hits UK housing market
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Statue thieves teach Madoff a lesson
|
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Economic worries keep house sales at low levels (Courier Mail)
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The only good news about 2009
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Let the bad news roll in: Prepare for a year that is unlikely to be happy (The Age)
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Perth rent yields slightly less insane as prices begin to fall: watoday
|
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Stay optimistic in tough 2009 - Rudd
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Financial Year in review: 2008
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Jobless rate set to rise in 2009
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Outlook grim for big four banks in 2009
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Unemployment heading toward 1 million in 2009. So much for demand for housing rising, eh?
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Subprime lenders struggle with arrears
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Too late to help some borrowers in arrears: smh
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Enough Wealth Blog: I lost half a million dollars on the stock market in just twelve months! Learn how you, too can become an ex-millionaire with almost no effort!
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It's all in our heads... it's all in our heads! Prices can't possibly fall, because it would be too much of a story to get wrong!
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Buy Something! ... ANYTHING! Here - have a unit! (REIQ Spruiking)
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Questions without notice: Australian Housing Affordability: openaustralia.org.au
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It's official - Australia is in denial - but we're not special. The recession will be with us momentarily.
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Time for a seaside specuchange.
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The motive behind false auction statistics.
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The Queen acknowledges Christmas will be a 'sombre occassion'
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Credit Card companies adjusting credit limits
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Amex drops credit limit on customer for shopping where poor people shop
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It's different here, because I say so! Heal economy! HEAL!
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Tenants' rights boosted in $7b homeless package. (+ interesting comments): news.com.au
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US housing prices collapse: smh.com.au
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Toyota profit warning spells gloom
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Economic bubble
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The South Sea Bubble
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Oh me! oh my! Auction numbers dwindle (Melissa Ketchell @ Courier Mail)
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Tulip mania
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Wikipedia - Real estate bubble
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IMF warns of 'disturbing' UK debt - "whole society will suffer"
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NZ: 1 in 5 owes bank more than house is worth: stuff.co.nz
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It's different in Brisbane, there are more expats.
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I don't see how the current economic outlook can lead to prices holding in RealEstate?
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Rudd to spend extra $1.2b on homeless
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I think its called roman candling
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House prices to continue to slide in 2009: news.com.au
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Goody! Now only Brisbane is different!
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WEEKEND ECONOMIST: From bad to worse (Business Spectator)
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Let's counteract the last story with a little bit of festive spruiking.
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VIC house sales slump 25%
|
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Tax Break May Have Helped Cause Housing Bubble
|
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USanians got it, why can't we?
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Buying Australian property to be made easier for foreigners
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Property boomtowns turn to bust, but for residex the roller coaster is flat.
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Home buyers out in force create a massive clearance rate of... 36%!!! Melissa Ketchell
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Fed announces: we're clueless and stupid - who are they kidding?
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Mortgages for dimwits who hate their own grandchildren: selsiusrealestate.com
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Turns out giving away pieces of paper doesn't get the economy going. Who'd have thought? smh.com.au
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Buyers ignore properties priced at pre crash levels: the age
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"It is now clear that no part of the world is likely to escape the credit crunch as property prices start to fall in more and more parts of the globe.": inquirer.net
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A 30% fall in house prices? That looks optimistic. (Spot the difference between the UK and here) moneyweek.com
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Gee! I wonder why prices aren't going up anymore?
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Dismal outlook for housing.
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No, it will never fall. Oh, it's just stagnating. Err... it's going down a little, but it will be up. Uh-oh... it's a mid-cycle correction now!
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I guess that Asia won't save us, after all!
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Madoff scam could cost banks millions
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Bank Suicide Bombers
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First National RE predicts house prices to fall to 2.5 times average household income as wages grow at delusional pace...
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There is no Australian real-estate problem. Now move along - nothing to see here.
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APM on November Auction Clearance Rates
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Not enough fools about to increase clearance rates: news.com.au
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Auction clearance rates in Brissie: 19% at a total value of 3.7mil
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Now the overseas investors are going to keep the real-estate prices up! Yeah right!
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US of A: more head-wind for the housing market. But Australia is different.
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We are no so different now, are we?
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Storm Financial On the brink of collapse: smh
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Borrowers fix rates high and take variable rates when they're low: smh.com.au
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High-end homes fall in a hole: government manipulation of the housing market only able to keep low-end houses expensive: the australian
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Oh noes!!1!one Auction inaction (Melissa Ketchell)
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More propaganda on Brissie rent (be sure to check blogger Chris' "maths")
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Anxious Xmas for many - just one example
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Land tax 'tricks' will inflate coffers
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Housing Shortage in Inner City a Myth : earthsharing
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300,000 Australian households could face "negative equity" next year: The Age
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Cheaper housing target of radical tax overhaul: smh
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Look out! First time buyers are back in the market! Whoa!
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China Cracks - "virtually ensures that we will spend much of next year in recession": Kohler
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(USA) $500K is the new $1 million.
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Speculators angry that house prices have risen: the Australian
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A “severe recession in Australia†is a “very strong†possibility: bloomberg
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QLD property stamp duty to fall 28%: Brisbane Times
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Stick your bonus in the bank
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Canberra not different in any way which counts
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Surfers Paradise median price falls by 45%: Gold Coast Bulletin
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Jigging Auction Numbers - Crikey!!
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Home buyers still not buying because of raional expectations: AFR
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Mortgage broker with an invested interest says it is time for first home buyers to commit to his income
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It's not inflation that did us in, it's the borrowing. smh.com.au
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Desperate Spruiking: Population explosion puts strain on southeast Queensland (Courier Mail)
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BRISBANE real estate agents are packing up their for-sale signs and leaving the industry in droves, as tough market conditions put paid to the flash cars and golfing lifestyles of 2007.
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Overpriced houses in Brisbane are not selling, but maybe if we say prices have dropped 30% prices will stop falling.
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Popping sounds: House prices are falling just about everywhere: economist.com
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SYDNEY'S mid-range and prestige property market has ground to a halt. Prices have collapsed: dailytelegraph
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Christchurch house price falling 45% per annum: 3news.co.nz
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Hobart house prices crash: themercury.com.au
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Homo sillyus strikes again: theage.com.au
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Courier Mail/REIQ error in data reported - see forum post
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2007: Through the roof: rents to soar 20% (Jessica Irvine SMH)
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Today: Through the floor: in fact they fell 15% (Jessica Irvine SMH)
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Australian construction activity slumps in Nov: Business Spectator
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Demand for new cars and homes slumps: Business Spectator
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Qld bans banks' mortgage fire sales: Business Spectator
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Prestige property market slowdown in Queensland
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The economy in 2008
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Gee, I thought we were different here.
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UK property is still going down the tubes.
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Housing has bottomed because speculators buying today will lose a bit less than those who bought a year ago: Monique Wakelin: smartcompany
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Not forgetting to mention we are a spruiker and REIV representative now are we Ms. Wakelin?
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The American Recession as Explained by a Canadian
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Mortgage brokers say house prices are falling: smh.com.au
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Only 11 more sleeps until we find out if Centro stays or goes
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Ian Marcfarlaine: I was not wrong, it is different here: the australian
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HIA: A bit of wishful thinking/spruiking.
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Land Speculators Reign!: prosper.org.au
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China will save us: bloomberg.
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Qld budget shot to pieces by bursting bubble but blamed on GFC (note transers already down by 33% by March 08!)
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Rent bidding banned after change in Queensland tenancy laws
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Prices are too high, but it's not a bubble if some people can still afford to speculate.
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Forced sellers will keep prices falling.: AFR
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Cut won't bring instant boost. How about "not at all" ?
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RBA sends real interest rates negative. rba.gov.au
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Surprise-surprise: clearance rate fails to listen to the spruiking.
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Why buy now if prices are plummeting? How deflation could drag us all down: the independant
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Schiller in Britain "it's not different here" (it's only different in Aus!) guarduian.co.uk
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Capitalism (everywhere except here - it is different here): what now? the australian
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Steve Keen's prediction of deflation looking more likely - not just headline inflation, but underlying inflation dropping fast!
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Subprime's were an "effect". The "cause" was land speculation.: the age
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VIDEO: Speculators Flipping Our Freedom : earthsharing
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78 year old chaplain lauded for beating up bank workers.: sun herald
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Real Estate Insitute of South Australia admits prices went up because prices were going up - but didn't use the "bubble" word though
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Its nice when a mainstream newspaper states that tight credit is a blessing and low interest rates arent good for everyone
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Ah, and a little bit of FUD: evil landlord are putting up rent. Buy a house?!
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I believe this qualifies for the "dead cat bounce"
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The top is reached in Tasmania: government begins to speculate overtly in residential real estate.: abc.net.au
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Australia frightened: nytimes
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Apparent shortage in Serbia too. Why is it not clear that it's just that the prices wacko? the age
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Home buyers walking away from the top end of town: the age
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House prices: How low can they go?: telegraph.co.uk
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RBA's XMAS gift to Australians, your savings will earn less interest than the inflation rate. Now the smart people are paying for others mistakes.
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'Rate cut Rory' bets his boots on house prices
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We think we'll get 30 to 35% less now than we would have a year ago" "but we're going to sell anyway theage.com.au
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The bubble's re-inflating! yeah, right!
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Dynamics of the Global Financial Crisis: Steve Keen
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The housing bubble has raised many questions over where the boundary between public and private interest should lie. guardian.co.uk
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Let Home Prices Fall: cbsnews.com
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Households struggling as 'mortgage stress' spreads: abc.net.au
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Rich suburbs on mortgage stress list: news.com.au
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Citigroup the thin end of the US wedge: crikey.com.au
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housing shortage analysis: whocrashedtheeconomy.com
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Aussie owned Big bank is so confident about house prices it now requires 20% deposit ... just in case property does the impossible and falls more than 20%
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See the insanity in action: Houseprices historical listing (searchable)
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Ray White: If at first you don't succeed, try for the twentieth time.
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Aww, my heart is bleeding!
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OECD predicts dire recession
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Brisbane storms provide instant excuse why overpriced properties don't sell.
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Housing heads for a soft landing (in a bottomless swamp): smh
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Australia’s Achilles heel (our real estate is 22%-25% too high)
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Deluded speculators can either lose money or lose more money. : jenman.com.au
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Bailouts double every seven to ten days: bloomberg
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Today's "I told you so" moment is brought to you by Melissa Ketchell
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Bubble popping goes global: the guardian
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Architect group suggests $30,000 first home buyer grant to extend the madness even more
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Oh yeah, let's extend the stupidity!
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House prices, sales fall as mass insanity finally fades
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Perth in biggest slump for 25 years
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The end of McMansions?
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Home sellers warned prices will keep falling: thewest.com.au
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Australians swimming in empty houses: smh
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Short Sale vs Foreclosure
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Brisbane's housing sales slump the worst in Australia
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End of the debt delusion: Business Spectator (Alan Kohler)
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AV Jennings reports 66pc fall in sales: the australian
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Immigrant numbers going down.
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Let's hope every tax payer's cent is worth it. After all affordability will no doubt improve if house prices rise! au Yahoo finance quoting Louis Christoper in the Sun Herald
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watershed for property asset prices to occur in early Dec'08
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Has debt-deflation begun? Steve Keen
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Economic deja vu as powers that be play same old tune: the age
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Business Spectator article about deflation (those who thought their housing debt may be inflated away should think again - Steve Keen is looking more and more right each day!)
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Death of 'no-deposit' loans signals end of easy lending: abc.net.au
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Fairies found at the bottom of Glenn Stevens' garden: the age
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Parody of speculators reaction to house price falls. - link now fixed sorry folks
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A tsunami of hope or terror?: Business Spectator (a truly amazing situation)
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US brick and mortar - they never lose value!
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THE "no deposit" home loan is about to become a thing of the past: smh
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Always look on the bright side of … economic data?: Setev Keen
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"Shop till you don't see it drop any more" - The Australian is optimistic about bargins emerging! So is the RBA.
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Oh Matusik - what would we do without you?
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Rents fall as properties flood the market: Telegraph
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History in pictures. aka: watch the commentators laughing at Peter Schiff predicting exactly what has happened (link now fixed)
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Nearly a million buy-to-let properties are standing empty: Telegraph
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"NEWS": Billionaire developer says now is the time to buy an apartment before they go up and thanks government for helping him with FHOG. news.com.au
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Oh, what a surprise - home owner grants going to waste
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A visual guide to the financial crisis
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The jobs and the link to the housing sector
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Don't rely on your home to keep you rich:smh
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Never mind the rally: businessspectator.com.au
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Find hidden asking price on real estate websites
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Good ideas proposed by the minister for housing - funny : tanyaplibersek.fahcsia.gov.au
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It's different here - we call it low doc: smh.com.au
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Premium suburbs fare best as real estate market improves: theage
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We've reached the bottom (again): wabusinessnews
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Melissa Ketchell changes name of post from "More bad news ahead" to "More price falls ahead" after receiving comments about first headline
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Brisbane house prices record biggest September fall - Ketchell
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ABS tracking a decline (downward flattening?) in housing finance.
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Prices to flatten, but not interest repayments. So that would be losing money, I think.
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Kangaroos are mammals afterall
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Lower north shore prices recover by 12.7%: smh.com.au
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"High house prices helped consumption by imbuing consumers with a sense of confidence about their personal wealth which induced them to spend more": SMH
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Dead Weight of Property - Gottliebsen
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Bubblepedia wiki editing tutorial. How to add to the information on the site.
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24% improvement in Toorak prices in just one year: the age
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Lessons from California’s housing bubble: club troppo
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They come, look and leave as buyers beware
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NSW state government borrows more good money to throw after bad: smh
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Pressure on banks to become landlords: abc.net.au
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More Cracks Appearing in Qld & WA - Gottliebsen
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The Queensland Ka-blamo! $500bn wiped off boom state budget
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WA Housing Roundtable: Senator Scott Ludlam openforum
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Robert Schiller interviewed on 730 report: abc.net.au
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Prices improve in top Sydney suburbs
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The market slumps? But the top end houses are going to save us!
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Bank lobbyists are calling on the RBA to continue its policy of aggressive rate-cutting to avoid sesible house prices (and possible recession) but thaankfully it may already be too late. daily telegraph
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you can go very wrong in bricks and mortar: the australian
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Commonwealth Bank cries poor
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A world of pain when debt gets the better of us: smh
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Reserve Bank to cut interest rates as house prices crash
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Treasurer, Wayne Swan, reassures the population. Don't worry, housing won't become affordable: smh.com.au
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Land release not the house price problem: the age
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Flood of homes for sale in expensive suburbs
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Crisis halts Brisbane's Vision tower
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Sellers flood housing market: goldcoast.com.au
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House prices recorded their biggest quarter-on-quarter improvement so far this century in the three months ended September: www.theaustralian.news.com.au
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Panic sellers at top end, eager buyers at bottom: www.theaustralian.news.com.au
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Statistics disprove lies and damn lies for a change.
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Demand for houses at asking price slumps. Pent-up demand appears to be for lower priced houses.
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Moscow property bubble to burst - top Russian banker (anyone recognising a pattern here?) guardian.co.uk
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House prices unlikely to collapse, hopes spruiker: couriermail
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Barefoot Investor Scott Pape busts a few market myths
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We've reached the bottom, it's just that our bottom is higher than anyone else's top: HIA WA
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What is really going on? : debtdeflation.com
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Financial problems: yeap - Australia is going to be spared, because.... hm?
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Building a house of cards: australian financial review
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Battelino does not believe buying a house priced at ten times your annual income is a sure-fire path toward perpetual debt and servitude to the bank. dailyreckoning.com.au
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Bursting of bubble hits Chinese middle class: smh.com.au
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Excessive construction freeze hits city: the age
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Architect 'canaries' laid off: the age
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Who needs global terrorism when you can cook up these kinds of ideas at home?: the age
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Home sales plunge: the age
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State's new home sales plummet: brisbanetimes
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No need to fear house price dive, says Reserve (smh)- can they tell me next weeks lotto numbers.
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RBA's soothing house talk understandable - again with the undersupply
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Price sting in the first-home buyers grant: news.com.au
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Recover from affluenza: stay in, watch flat-screen: smh.com.au
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Court refuses to rule on short term future of overpriced house : smh.com.au
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Sydney REI rental vacancy rates up : more bad news for renters. smh.com.au
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Let's give renters some credit: denverpost.com
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Savings in a stranglehold: businessspectator.com.au
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Unreal real estate: businessspectator.com.au
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Woes me! Buyers shun market, despite FHO increase!
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Can add the Panda to Eagle, Lion, Griffin and Sheep (Iceland?) as animals the Kangaroo must be different from: economist.com
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It's gone down, so we'll sell, but don't worry, we are not a large part of the market: kentnews.co.uk
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The Real Estate Bubble drives Homebuyers into Debt Peonage: lvrg.org
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an admission that we've all lost our senses.: jenman.com.au
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No buyers even for the classiest of real estate: smh.com.au
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Lambs to slaughter : heraldsun
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All is good in Plibiserkistan - there's nothing to see here.
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Dollar Bill On Floor Sends Wall Street Into Frenzy: the onion
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property prices have to fall: heraldsun
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the great beach house sale:
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There's No Housing Bubble to Go Bust: the increases "largely reflect strong economic fundamentals," (check date)
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Fujitsu Consulting predicts the bubble bursting but blames unemployment rather than unsustainable speculative growth of asset values.
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Great news for speculators and the bubble economy: Tanya Plibersek Blog. all go and leave a comment telling her what you think
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Greed: SBS insight
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In pixieland, it's all heads in the sand: smh.com.au
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Lenders get tough: the spiral begins: businessspectator.com.au
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Disgraced former minister for house price gambling heroically loses even more money for his nation: smh.com.au
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Is There a Recession Brewing in Our Housing Bubble?: newmatilda.com
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Are we headed for a property crash?: smartcompany.com.au
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Why real estate spending could make Australia the new Iceland
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RAMS trying their hardest to keep the bubble going: news.com.au
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Veteran investor says don't buy any property: goldcoast.com.au
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Helicopter Kevin unable to reinflate Melbourne house price bubble: the age
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Sell, sell, sell: rich cut losses on property: smh.com.au
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Built for shelter, not prosperity: Terry Sweetman: news.com.au (highly recommended reading -d)
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Australian house prices unlikely to collapse like everywhere else says chief marketing officer (economic) for large Australian institution that will be destroyed if they do: homesworldwide.co.uk
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Market jitters see house prices slide
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First homebuyers grants are pointless : couriermail
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UK: the great property shortage which ministers were fretting about until recently has evaporated. spectator.co.uk
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Rents through the floor! (but falling rents mask the shortage of course): smh
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REIQ calls 6 agents and decides the market is being stormed by first home buyers. Obviously they missed the mediawatch episode slamming dodgy statistics.
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Reminder of the debate on right now: CIJ
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Will Australia’s own pump-priming work?: cij
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House prices will rise in step with grant
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no nation including ours can sustain itself by buying and selling real estate: abc.net.au
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A blatant attempt to keep Aussie house prices in the biggest bubble of a lifetime. : Melissa "Spruiker" Ketchell's readers have worked it out.
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House-hunters sit out storm and keep renting
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House prices dont fall, especially in mining state capitals like perth - but sometimes they fall 10%
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housing is a great investment, even if its obscenely overpriced, the government with pump money in to ensure it stays high. Alternative headline, Kevin Rudd really is an idiot.
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It is not just a few investment decisions that are being corrected, it's the delusions of an entire generation. dailyreckoning.com.au
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New Zealand house prices improving at 5.8% plus inflation per annum: brisbane times
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Property spruikers ramain in denial: brisbane times
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Good day for house prices as rational behaviour spreads: the age
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PM admits on live TV that house prices will fall (video): Sixty Minutes
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AUSTRALIA'S big banks ignored the sub-prime crisis in the US and actively took greater risks in the home mortgage market to see off a challenge from rival lenders: The Australian
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Generation Debt: Paying excessive interest on buying shit is not ok, but exessive interest housing on your home is OK: Sixty Minutes (Video)
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PM admits on live TV that house prices will fall (sixty minutes): The Courier Mail
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A sobering forecast of things to come in Australia? Oh, that's right, it's different here
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Southeast Queensland property shortage DEFINITELY a myth: The Courier Mail
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We should have seen this storm coming: smh.com.au
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Wayne swan says it's different here, there's a shortage: news.com
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Ouch: absolute beachfront doesn't mean absolute price gains: The Gold Coast Bulletin
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Bubble helps the environment as people rush to downgrade SUV to smaller, more efficient cars: The Australian
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Gen Y's who recently bought property to find it hard: The Australlian
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Tim Lawless calls the bottom
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The financial crisis explained: Government resources 'puny' compared to market bubble: Steve Keen: news.com.au
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There will always be a few poor delusional fools around
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This crisis outranks 1987: businessspectator
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... but our banks need it too : businessspectator.com.au
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Demand for home loans sinks
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People just can't get enough, it's different in Sydney.
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Call to lower rents: courier mail
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Scott Pape (aka The Barefoot Investor) making perfect sense
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Savers to get a lot less after RBA cuts interest rates by 1%: RBA
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So much for high immigration levels to drive up house prices: news.com.au
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Housing affordability on Triple J Hack TV - featuring juicedpixels
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Melissa Ketchell at The Courier Mail spreads some more contradictory news about the state of the Brisbane housing market
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Properties at auction receive no bids despite "moderate attendance": Melissa Ketchell (Courier Mail)
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Mortgage payments too high? Make a home brew stubbies of beer for 25-30 cents.
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'The Australian' tells speculators to hold on for another 12 months
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Apparently 'homebuyers' are looking for a revival in the slow property market: news.com.au
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The US Financial and Corporate System is in Cardiac Arrest: The Risk of the Mother of All Bank Runs
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Video: A very sad look at the reasons that rent money is not dead money. calculated risk
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Falling prices fixing shortage: st george and sutherland shire leader
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The decades long bubble that shook the world: smh.com.au
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House of credit cards will fall: the australian
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US government approves 700 billion dollar speculation in residential real estate that banks ca't get rid of at any price. washingtonpost
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Apparently Brisbane has not yet felt AND is spared from property market slowdown: Brisbane Times
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House bought on eBay for $2.20
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The top of the Australian residential property market seems to have cracked: Alan Kohler: businessspectator
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Brace for economic misery: smh.com.au
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THE credit crunch is seeing Gold Coast property prices take a dive
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Some more funny cartoons
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Credit tightening caused by declining prices, not the other way around: truthout
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More heartening news for house speculators from West Australia
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Tassie house prices cop a caning but once again, nobody wants to admit the truth: houses a just plain unaffordable in Australia
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Perth property market 'remarkably resilient' despite 65% annualised price fall over the last month
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The subprime primer (funny, view fullscreen)
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We're going on a bear hunt, what a beautiful day, we're not scared: brisbane times
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Property Investors not scared
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House prices down 10pc so far this year: REIWA (so if these jokers have owned up, ....)
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House prices will fall a little bit to reach a permanently high plateau because it's different here: smh.com.au
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Prices have dropped but still few Buyers (USA)
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Housing: Taking A Bubble Bath To Reality
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Latest on house prices from Robert Gottliebson, Business Spectator
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$US700b bailout deal voted down: smh.com.au
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UK: Mortgage lending down 95 per cent: telegraph.co.uk
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Sydney house prices fall, again: realestate.com.au
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Fear of missing out behind irrationally high house prices : realestate.com.au(!)
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Era of austerity ahead: the Australian
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Mediawatch outs REINSW as pork pie tellers, and the daily telegraph as their lackey. congratulations to all who wrote and pointed this nonsense out to mediawatch
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VIDEO: WaMu? Ad Has New, Dark, Meaning: consumerist.com
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Financial chickens are flocking home to roost: Steve Keen : the age
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Renting Makes More Financial Sense Than Homeownership : yahoo finance
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Speculative property owners are 'voting with their feet' when they choose not to list because they somehow think that they'll get more for their property in the future
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Write to the treasurer here and tell him what you think of his plan to give your money to house price gamblers: Treasurer contact page
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Mortgage Strike To Protest Paulson $700 Billion Theft and attempt to introduce democracy: patrick.net
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Why it can't work: Steve Keen
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The mother of all rip-offs: smh.com.au
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Swan say the $4b bail-out won't help, but he's already decided to throw your money away anyway:smh.com.au
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Upwardly immobile: mortgage stress bites: smh.com.au
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Stop the Australian bailout : bubblepedia
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Australian government to buy housing bubble debt. Mr Swan says this is about making an irresponsible banking system more irresponsible and allowing more speculators to put themselves under financial pressure: theaustralian
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The Power of Negative Thinking : New York Times
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We can no longer bank on the free market: smh.com.au
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Mortgage suffering: the suburbs on the edge: smh.com.au
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Improving housing market improves more.
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Surprise, surprise: REIQ says townhouse and unit prices remain stable in Queensland: The Courier Mail
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NAB may be able to join the party and knock off 1 billion dollars from US taxpayers. theaustralian
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No openings? It's not so bad at the top of the heap: Sunanda Creagh Canberra Times
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Will Australia miss out on the global house price improvements? Yes: It's different here because of the x-factor: the Australian
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Sydney rent crisis exaggerated: expert: abc.net.au
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Illawarra rents only rising .50 cents per week while house prices fall $1500.00 per week
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Don’t forget this is all happening because there was a housing bubble in the United States (and Australia, for that matter)....Oh, and as for Australia... Alan Kohler: businessspectator.com.au
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US home prices drop further: SMH
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news.com advertorial says 739 homes for rent in a city of 5 million says the newspaper. What do the advertisements say? 9050: domain.com.au search
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10 Sydney rentals no one's inspecting ... smh.com.au
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Another news.com.au article with questionable statistics about rental vacancy rates and a plug for a REIA. Funny that no one would put their name to it
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An expensive haircut: barefoot investor
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It's that 'ol pent up demand again - News.com.au
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news.com.au tells 'suffering' landlords to be 'reasonable with rent'
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The property bubble: ABC radio national
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The thinking of our leaders, economic advisers and business people is dominated by an economic model that denies the genius-idiot reality of the human condition: Gittins SMH
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Millionaire can't afford his speculations, won't sell, so shouldn't have to pay the same rates as everybody else: brisbanetimes
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First home saver accounts to be offered by two major banks at varying interest rates
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After decades of encouraging speculation on rising prices, government bans speculation on the return to rational prices: the Australian
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Low-doc loans dead, says Symond : news.com.au
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The Scam of Ever Rising House Prices: dailkreckoning.com.au
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Catching a falling housing market is exactly like catching a falling knife. Maybe it is safer to let it drop: fool.co.uk
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The market fall has graduated from a correction to a crash.: the Australian
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The direction is clear. Central banks need to resist reckless debt-financed asset price booms: the Australian
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Why it's a great idea for you and me to pay for the losses of speculators and banks: Ross Gittins
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Armageddon as financial meltdown caused by the worldwide practice of lending more than people can afford to pay more than houses are worth, but the good news is that one Sydney house sold for a crazy price: smh
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Rob Mellor calls the bottom again in Perth
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It's all over - even Jessica "Rents" Irvine has worked it out: smh.com.au
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Business Spectator cautions against buying any property at pre-crash levels
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"Experts" imagining an end to property price improvements : smh
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US bails out AIG (agrees to pay back any dodgy loan for anybody. What with?) smh.com.au
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Speed Renting results: earthsharing
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U.S. Seizes Control of AIG With $85 Billion Emergency Loan: washingtonpost
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What Not to Do in a Financial Crisis: U.S. Learns From Japan: washington post
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Australians changing attitude to debt - Reserve Bank: news.com.au
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Property yet to bottom: smh.com.au
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UK An economic boom that lasted a generation and saw none of the windfall set aside for a rainy day has ended. (sounds very familiar) the star
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This is a solvency crisis: businessspectator
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Opening the books closes the prospects (coming to an institution then a household near you): the age
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Going down spruiking: the west
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Reality hits property funders: smh.com.au
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NZ: Rents drop as listings rise (it's different here of course): stuff.co.nz
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Property 2009: Crash, Boom or Stagnate?!: Online debate including Steve Keen organised by CIJ
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Debt fueled property developers is all the Gold Coast has .... don't knock it.
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The Gold Coast train wreck: smh
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Housing: UK property auction prices slump 23%, while loans to first-time buyers hit record low : The Guardian
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The moral content of economic terminology in the popular press: A guide: Bluematter
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Not too late to loose your shirt in Wollongong
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Sydney house prices predicted to fall by up to 30pc: Daily Telegraph
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Peter Schiff and Steve Keen on Dateline (VIDEO)
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Opportunity to short sell Australian residential property may come just in time: The Australian
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Still trying to talk it up for the advertisers in Adelaide.
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Earthsharing australia's take on Bursting the Bubble
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More building firms in danger of collapse (which is odd really given the dreadful shortage of housing): The Daily Telegraph
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Crash Master: Robert Shiller has a new book out: Time magazine
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Bursting the Bubble: SBS Insight (via youtube)
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Bursting the Bubble: SBS Insight (online forum - the punters are working it out)
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Canadian Houses Overpriced
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Shiller Interviewed on Bloomberg - Making Perfect Sense as Usual (AUDIO)
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When will it be time to invest in property again? John Stepek: money.uk.msn.com (as relevant here as in the UK)
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tread your own path: Scott Pape: heraldsun
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Interest rate cut brings out pent up supply in brisbane: couriermail.com.au
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Prices improving in weatlhier areas: smh.com.au
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U.S. House Price Decline Could Be Worse than Great Depression, Economist Shiller Says: finance.yahoo.com
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Australian sub prime mortgage backed securities starting to fall over: The Australian
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Is the property bubble about to burst? In KENYA. Fascinating to see all the same arguments as here - "annual shortage of 170000 houses, demand outstrips supply etc. It's different there too!
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Blind to overshooting: AsiaTimes?
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'House prices will drop 10pc': watoday
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Don't bank on more cuts, says RBA: the age
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Rate cut no guarantee of quick recovery: barefoot "investor"
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loopy predictions trophy entrant: Median Brisbane house price to hit $36 million: abc.net.au
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22 repeat sales in Miami. (Thanks goodness this is only happening everywhere except Australia.) eyeonmiami
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Letter: Angus Cereni : Property 'bust' is a welcome sign: the age
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Yippee, the bad times are back (Ross Gittins gets the hang of the bubblepedia headline!): smh.com.au
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UK Government goes completely mad and invests directly in housing! Losses now extended to all.
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Debtwatch No.26: Losing control of the margin? : Steve Keen
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House price crash goes global : guardian.co.uk
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Sydney has become the dearest place among major cities to buy an average house in relation to average family income because of the 40 per cent declines in house prices in California (but it won't happen here): IPA
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Without a hint of irony: $1m homes 'the norm' within decade because QLD is the California of Australia! news.com.au
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Decreasing your variable interest rate by 0.05% more than other banks makes you headline news! (on more than one website)
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Decreasing your variable interest rate by 0.05% more than other banks makes you headline news!
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Get in now, don't wait any longer to lose your money: brisbane times
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And now, from the people who brought you the bestselling "Why you should buy everything now because it has gone up" we bring you "Why you should sell everything now because it has gone down": news.com.au
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UK: How not to help first-time homebuyers: get the government to join them in shared speculation arrangements: the times:
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With inflation 50% above the reserve's target range, cut too much, and the threat of reinflating the asset bubble and generating even higher inflation rises considerably. thewest
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Nelson calls for lower savings rates, lower dollar and higher petrol prices: abc.net.au
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Follow The Yellow Brick Road?: FNArena
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Consecutive interest rate cuts won't produce a renewed housing boom. : smh.com.au
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Let’s Get Real about Real Estate: Peter Schiff: financialsense.com
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Another Ponzi scheme unable to borrow enough money to pay the interest on the money it had already borrowed. : news.com.au
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Fears the RBA may move to undercut savers by a further .5%: smh
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House sales tumble as slump bites: the age
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When will housing stop falling in price? dailyreckoning.com.au
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All aboard the property snake: heraldsun
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London house prices fall 5.3% in a month : the guardian
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Zip Code 95832, Sacramento, California. 50% off sale still no takers.: whocrashedtheeconomy.com
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Evicted after just 4 days!
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The Housing Revolution: From Speculative Investment to Low Cost Shelter : oftwominds.com
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Lessons from a “lost decade†- Will America follow Japan into a decade of stagnation?: economist.com
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UK house prices drop like a rock: WAtoday
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Don't put your house on it: the diplomat
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UK councils consider discarding public money in attempt to prop up house prices.
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British house prices suffer fall: The Age
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Keen makes a distinction between speculation and investment. : brisbanetimes
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Homeowners selling at big losses over rates and investments: dailytelegraph
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And they said house prices would never fall 30%… : businessday.co.nz
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Greatest home price improvement since 1990: thewest.com.au
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Review: The Subprime Solution by Robert J Schiller :telegraph.co.uk
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Perhaps not a blessing, but good news for Australians with house prices beginning to show signs of improving. :news.com.au
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Housing Limbo: How Low Will US House Prices Go?
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New car sales fall even further below underlying demand: smh.com
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Insight: Bursting the Bubble - Tuesday 9 September 7:30pm (aka Jenny says see, dan was right;))
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Click your way into debt with LoanAustralia?, all about taking money out of the pockets of Australian mums and dads.
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residential housing is an investment asset with a P/E of more than 100: Gerard Minack: the Eureka Report
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If the global economy is as safe as houses, then there's a crash on the way: the age
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Can Asset Pricing Theory Explain Sydney House Prices? : Glenn Otto talk 15 Sep Sydney
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Everything is rosy because it's different here and if you say it ain't then it won't be and it'll be your fault. Malcom Turnbull SMH
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Investment banker from England makes smart investments in NZ property and in the process shows mere mortals what makes bankers different and deserving of 7 figure bonuses.
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Timing Does Matter: Irvine Housing Blog
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Leading fools to the slaughter: domain.com.au
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UK: Things will get better, you can bet your savings on it: guardian.co.uk
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Cognitive dissonance in the USA: It's fine to waste a million dollars, think of the tax deducion: LA times
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Valuer: "I only did 25 repossessions for the whole of 2007 but I have done more than that a month so far this year.": goldcoast.com.au
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(The very familiar story of) How U.S. banks sold home equity loans: international herald tribune
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Credit crunch 'to go on another 12-18 months': news.com.au
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Canberra auction clearance rate currently zero percent.
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Fundemental Change as Global Economy Heads For Recession : marketoracle.co.uk
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Families (with mortgages) no longer entitled to automatic housing upgrades
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Your House Is Worth Less? Good : time magazine (slightly old but good)
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Humour from patrick.net
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not too late to lose your shirt in belfast: the times
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U.S. subprime collapse reaches Welsh town (but it won't reach here, it's different here): LAtimes
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FBI Probes (the same) Unusual Incentives for Home Buyers (that are now being offered in Aus): WSJ
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Good time to not be prime minister: smh
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Landlords feel the pain as rents tipped to stagnate :courier mail
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How much worse can "It" get?: Steve Keen on RGEMonitor.com
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Melbourne, Sydney housing becoming less affordable: smh
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The Reservoir of Schadenfreude: Irvine Housing Blog
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The end of the dream? ; the economist
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UK housing market on verge of collapse: thenational.ae
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The Meltdown Lowdown: prospect.org
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The Great Consumer Crash of 2009: seekingalpha
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Property crash pushes third of US homebuyers into negative equity: the guardian
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I Want A House Price Crash!: fool.co.uk
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NEWS BLOG - House prices improve: thewest.com.au
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Why bailing out housing market is a very bad idea : independant.ie
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House listed for US$1 takes 19 days to sell: dailymail.co.uk
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US house price falls rate of 7.6% PER QUARTER uncannily similar to quarterly NSW falls: CNN
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The Australian property market has defied gravity for a long time and I think that gravity is now starting to get the upper hand : smh
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Aussie Bank to Bring America’s Biggest Bankers to Their Knees?: thetrumpet.com
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Sydney rents rise $20 per week in first quarter alone - prices fall 30,000: housing.nsw.gov.au
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Houses of Darkness - Old one from Jenman (Jan 2004)
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Hold the housing fix: businessspectator
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Australia Reserve Bank "shocked" by the severity of the slowdown: mish
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The Spanish property market bubble has been well and truly pricked, but sadly too late to save the beauty of the country's coastline. fool.co.uk
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A foolproof guide to the credit crunch that was caused by other people borrowing more than they could afford to repay to pay more than houses were worth, not us. news.com.au
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This credit crisis is like the plague and nobody is safe yet: telegraph.co.uk
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Greedy overspenders blame everybody except themselves. How dare banks charge them interest: news.com.au
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Spruikers unable to fathom sudden outbreak of rational behaviour among buyers. Fundamentals remain good for ongoing spread of the insanity. The Australian.
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US: Kingston, N.Y., will not return to “normal†for almost four centuries.: nytimes
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UK: Using young families to prop up falling prices is morally objectionable and economically illiterate.: Sunday Herald
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NZ: Collapsing values hit home : nzherld
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Housing bubble 'set to burst': Sunday Telegraph
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Home loans hit four-year low : Adelaide Advertser
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Fat cat looses home to foreclosure ;) SMH
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Repossessions compound swelled property market : couriermail
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Property trust losses should top $30bn : bristlemouth
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Reserve may cut rates, banks might not follow: the age
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the bubble/bust cycle knows no boundaries: Merryn Sommerset-Webb? FT.com
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UK house prices to tumble as boom turns to bust : guardian.co.uk
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UK: Homeowners lost as much on the value of their house as they earned in the last year, says new report: Mail Online
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Canada: Cooling housing market exposed to crash: Financial Post
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Leaky homes and the housing bubble: stuff.co.nz
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The fall in house prices has clear benefits for the economy: The Times
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Home truths : When the cash machine stops working: The economist
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Australia's Inevitable Recession: FN Arena
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how much is your house really worth? intelligentinvestor.com.au
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Commodity boom over. (why's it different here again?) couriermail
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Stealing money from taxpayers to give to houseowners to keep prices high gets NSW nod. smh
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Captain Symond steers ship into icy waters, sees iceberg and graciously gives someone else a go of the wheel.: the age
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lenders not interested in a soft landing, but borrowers refusing ever increasing debt traps: smh
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New rush tipped for debt junkies: perth now
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News media contradiction regarding the Australian rental crisis? : CIJ
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Home Not-So-Sweet? Home : New York Times
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US property dream has turned into a nightmare: telegraph.co.uk
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Poms to blow more taxpayer funds on keeping prices irrational : the times
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A stamp duty holiday? Not that mistake again: the times
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First swallow of spring: steve keen on investortv
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Sydney has 'most expensive housing' now that the bubble has burst overseas, but it's different here - our prices are a rational response to .... : aap
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Fixing politics: the housing affordability crisis: crikey.com.au
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The housing bubble caused big increases in nominal GDP: dailyreckoning.com.au
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house Price falls: Bartlett's blog
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Cut rates 'before bubble bursts': "Experts" say the only way to head off a rational prices is to quickly cut interest rates and improve the finances of speculators decisively.: daily telegraph
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Anger over 0% deposit home loans
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Housing's downhill run has upside: SMH
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How much better can it get? (And why the return to rationality will look bad to so many.) Steve Keen: Debtwatch
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Return to normal rates improves house prices: SMH
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UK: The faster house prices fall, the better off we'll all be: telegraph.co.uk
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Slumping house prices cause newspaper real estate spruiker to dream of interest rate falls during high inflaton. Can anybody recall her dreaming of rising interest rates during house price rises and "low inflation"? : SMH
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As if to add hope to increased income, households earning 12-year high savings rates now find the price of the house they may one day own is falling : SBS news
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Good news: Prices falling - and there's a boom! : perth now
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Wealth plunges for those who can't tell price from value: couriermail
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House prices improve : news.com.au
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Silver lining: Starbucks layoffs likely to have a positive impact on Australian's attitudes to saving: smh.com
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Industry spruiker predicts rents to rise dramtically to 35% of the cost of owning in Victoria: herald sun
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Doubting economists get no thanks : sbpost.ie
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Sides split as Ray White threatens to withdraw from REIV over ethical concerns
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Property sales at 10-year low : west australian
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People waking from their fuge state in India too: indiatimes.com
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House prices improve in line with improving interest rates: news.com.au
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Debt before a fall: smh
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Perth house prices set to improve by 15%: West Australian
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House price improvement hope: the age
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Stag-rental? : Prosper Australia
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Australia Facing `Once-in-100-Year' Housing Slump : bloomberg
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YOUR SAY: Keen claims it is effectively a "Ponzi scheme": What do you think? Add your sane comments to The Age Blogs
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Sydney house prices improve slightly. Prices fall by 2.1 per cent in the last three months - and there could be more improvements to come: SMH
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House prices are improving in capital cities, but people are still blaming interst rates: news.com.au
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Hopes for rational house prices: smh
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House prices are a bubble waiting to burst: the age
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Read the warnings as prime crisis hits: The Age (lucky we son't have prime mortgages here)
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Lindsay Tanner Blog selling the home saver accounts: go and add sensible comments folks.
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demand for housing is gone but its different here cause we have "pent-up demand": Reuters
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HIA continue to argue there is a housing shortage: news.com.au
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ANZ's Mike Smith tips mortgage defaults to rise: news.com.au
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Mortgage woes: the worst may be yet to come: the age
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Oli almost gets it: Oliver's Insights: AMP Capital Investors
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NAB will shock Wall Street. The world has never attempted a rescue effort of this size: businessspectator.com.au
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la la la la la no bubble no bubble la la la la : the Australian
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Duped taxpayers to the rescue for "Enron on steroids". the economist
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It's different here too. We still have a housing shortage like they did until they didn't: The Australian
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Maybe the "cartoon" house period is over. daily reckoning
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End of the global house price bubble: globalpropertyguide.com
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Home sales jump by 0.4%in year to June: SMH
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Sell the crazy spculations to them as living environments or put up with your kids living with you forever: SMH editorial
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Suburbs hit as house prices dive : Sunday Mail
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True rental vacancy rates are three times those reported by the REIs - news.com.au
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Sydney rental vacancies vary from 1.7-20% despite REI published rate of .9%: Ads in local newspapers track the falling market: smh.com.au
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Property market improvements to continue: smartcompany
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The last hurrah of the bubble? Government to directly pay the final round of speculators: smh
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Don't abuse rates excuse, landlords told: smh.com.au
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Rental price growth will not be continued through to year end: smh.com.au
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Doomsday delayed another few weeks : The Australian
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Despite all the facts, the sprikers can still find their silver lining: the age
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UK: Mortgage safety climbs to record high as affordability improves at fastest rate since 1950s: dailymail.co.uk
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Not too late to loose your shirt in Greece: IHT
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NZ: "Home affordability shows improvement" : Seriously, that's the headline, NZ wakes from it's stupor
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Credit Crunch Winners: fool.co.uk
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Leading developer belted by homes slump: The Australian
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Your Guide to the Housing Crisis: RGE monitor
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Investment property in Detroit
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Gruen Transfer ad: Foreclosure: well done Rick
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Gruen Transfer ad: house price gambling: well done hired goon.
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Quarter of borrowers expect mortgage woes
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House of cards has fallen: the age
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Fears of falls in deposit interest rates relieved: smh
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NZ: Renting is still 2½ times cheaper than buying a home without even counting capital losses: stuff.co.nz
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Crazy corporate socialism is bipartisan in Washington: the Australian
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The Culture of Debt: nytimes
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Prices have risen: time to buy says spruiker: heraldsun.com.au
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MORE Queenslanders than ever before are defaulting on their mortgages: couriermail
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UK House Price Crash of Summer 2008: marketoracle
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Australian downturn could be larger than US downturn: lateline
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The coming Australian property crunch: newmatilda
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NZ: Property Improvement: even better than you thought: stuff.co.nz
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millions of people have been conned into believing that a consumer item is the biggest investment that they will ever make: American Chronicle
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Downside to bailing out speculators: chicago tribune
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End of illusions: The Economist
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WA reposessions up 50% in a year: ABC
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TV property spruiker refuses to eat hat as promised: the times
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Hopes of a gambling chip manufacturing led recovery dashed: news.com.au
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Crumbling Foundations: US banking sector near collapse because of dodgy housing loans : smh
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Thankfully we don't have dodgy housing loans here though: google
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Banks lean on staff to push loans: The Age
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More falling behind in mortgages
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Debunking housing myths at news.com.au
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Why economic theory is out of whack: New Scientist
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UK Property: How Low Will It Go?: (hour long radio program - well worth listening to the whole thing) commoditywatch
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RBA may have trouble trying to slow interest rate boom: The Australian
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US governemnt provides list of financial institutions it thinks are cactus: reuters
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Prices improving in Townsville: ABC
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Housing Sales fall 24% due to 'fundamental underdemand': The Australian
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Melbourne house prices down 14pc
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It's different in Canada, too.
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It's differnet here: We'll be OK becasue our banks are much better capitalised because they are allowed to pretend that their assets are worth what they paid for them. Alan Kohler
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Good news: council rates boom in Melbourne.
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Bank failure gives hope that it may not be possible to reinflate the bubble: the Australian
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The last psychopath left pushing no money down low doc teaser rate negative amortisation payment option loans works for the Adelaide Advertiser
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Home and unit sales tumble to a nine-year low: courier mail
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Recession-Plagued? Nation Demands New Bubble To Invest In: the onion
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UK: Buy to let and the myth of rising rents: citywire.co.uk
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House prices could fall back a long way after their excessive rises: telegraph.co.uk
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UK: House prices improving at fastest rate for 50 years: mail online
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UK: Negative equity fears grow for some as house prices make record improvement: the guardian
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UK: Price improvement welcomed by the majority: Mail Online
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if you think thigs are good now, they are about to get a whole lot better: guardian.co.uk
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Global House Price Bubble Ends: The Seoul Times
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Bubble bursting in South Africa: weekend post
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Hobart house prices improve: Hobart Mercury
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House price slide sparks fears in UK: thewest.com.au
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This bust appears to be far more acute than the property bust of the early Nineties: metro.co.uk
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Bubble real estate: Take my house — please: canadian business
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Melbourne recession fear as property hit
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the worst bubble since the war: spectator.co.uk
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Property Deflation Sets In in Korea : The korea Times
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House Price Bubble in Iran
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Wealthy sell in secret
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Largest housing bubble in a century begins to unwind
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Baby Boomers
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No more fools to sell the houses to... there's a shortage (of mugs?) The Age
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british housing market set for big improvement: FT.com
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House prices improve, speculators loose Danish bank's money, all taxpayers pay for the bailout: bloomberg (reckon they would have shared their winnings?)
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Auckland houses burning 4416 per day, not including planned losses: nzherald.co.nz
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Why it's even more different here than it was in the US: Deputy Chief Spruiker, Michael Yardney
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NZ House sales plunge 42%
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NZ housing continues to improve: The Australian
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Ladder or Snake? The penny drops in Britain. nobody wants to buy the houses, there is no shortage.
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More banks lift rates: SMH
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Bankwest increases interest rates: ABC
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Brisbane house prices to fall 5pc: property group
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Tas housing loan approvals down almost 20 per cent: ABC
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U.S. Weighs making all US taxpayers pay the speculative losses of Two Mortgage Giants: NYtimes
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Perth house prices improve by $30,000, rental properties flooding onto the market. WAbusinessnews
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Trillion dollar bailout? it would cost more than the war in Iraq. businessspectator
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Relief 'within decade'
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REIT speculators await reporting season with dread
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Alan Kohler's quarterly outlook
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House prices flat or falling in most areas, but there are always a few melons calling permanently high plateau: smh.com.au
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Economic gloom deepens: smh.com.au
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Interest rate hikes a blessing: The Australian
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UK: House prices show best improvement for 16 years: the guardian
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UK: the land bankers are cactus. FT.com
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The Minsky moment has arrived: The cure is not more of the problem: businessspectator.com.au
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Instructions for losing money on property: keep your expenses higher than income, always know your panic selling strategy. The Australian
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Property not safe as houses after all: The Australian housing bubble is over, where to buy to lose a little less: sunrise
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House price bubble has persuaded huge numbers of average Australians to gamble their future on rising property prices: criky.com.au
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Overhang = Pent-up Demand?
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Loan Pains Turned Site Into a Hit
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REISA accidentally admits to 'problems' in the housing market: Adelaide Now
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Singapore's property bubble also ending: analysts : smh.com.au
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Denmark, Spain, the U.K. and Ireland Have Begun to Register Improving Housing Prices: dailyreckoning.com.au
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Jessica Irvine launches bid to win Jessica Irvine Trophy smh.com.au
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People buying less stuff - will 'pent-up demand' make stuff-prices rise?: FN Arena
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Interest Rates rising, RBA not in control: Herald Sun
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Housing market poised for further price improvements: The Australian
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UK: AARGH, house prices can fall, we do have to pay back our debts after all. OH NO, quick, DO something, change the rules, forget about inflation, make the savers pay the gambler's debts, anything. please. the independant
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62% of homelessness because of accumulated debts : smh.com.au
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When the music stops: Business spectator
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Housing bubble sinking British economy: The Economist
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Collateral damage: The Economist
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South African housing price bubble bursts (It's different here of course)
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house price bubble busting in Spain: economist.com (It's different here of course)
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NI house prices plunge by 18%: bbc (It's different here of course)
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House prices in Northern Ireland show steepest fall: Belfast telegraph. (It's different here of course)
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House price warning for Scots as regional variations mask stagnation in market (It's different here of course)
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NZ: Red-hot property deals come back to burn investors Sunday Star Times (It's different here of course)
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Housing bubble collapsing in the Netherlands : atlanticfreepress (it's different here of course)
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US: Californian house prices improve 23.8% in a year. The price declines in the Bubble Belts are three times as good as those in the rest of the nation. LA times (it's different here of course)
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Negative equity threat spreading for homeowners: telegraph.co.uk
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Kate Perry does her best to get in one more mention of "underlying demand" in the news this week
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Queensland housing shortage update: Housing market flooded but few buyers : Courier Mail
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Luckily we don't have subprime, no income no job (NINJA) loans or mortgage fraud here. smh.com.au
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ANZ Economist makes the Mother of All Crazy Predictions: Herald Sun
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It's different here. Prices will not fall because the CBA's invented "underlying demand" for 180 000 houses means that 180 000 people who can't afford a house would buy one if they could afford it.... oh, hang on... umm The Australian
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Good News: St George Bank increases deposit rates. SMH.COM.AU
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UK: Landlords told to lower unrealistic rents : ft.com
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It's obvious to some - Banks to feel pain
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Still making the same mistakes: businessspectator.com.au
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ANZ's Paul Braddick confuses the word Boom for the word Bust, but headline ambiguous: Herald-Sun?
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A pending crisis: abc.net.au
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UK: When bubbles go pop: guardian.co.uk
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UK: Paying the price for inflating property: spiked-online.com
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US How The Bubble Bursts: minyanville.com (lucky it's different here)
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She'll be right mate: businessspectator.com.au
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HIA says building approvals down apparently means more demand: news.com.au
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BIS: World needs tough monetary policy: businessspectator.com
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It's even become obvious to B1 and B2:www.bananasinpyjamas.com
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Global financial house of cards set to collapse? : Crikey.com.au
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Chicken or Egg? UK mortgage approvals dive to record low: businessspectator
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Egg or Chicken? UK house prices fall eighth straight month: businessspectator.com.au
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Take It From Japan: Bubbles Hurt : NY Times (2005)
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Bank for International Settlements Annual Report: A billion crazy speculators and their lenders all say 'oops' together.
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The tough truth - What sellers need to know: jenman.com.au
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Spruikers appear to be losing the battle for sensationalist headlines .... "Get Out Now!" says news.com.au
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High interest rates cure housing shortage: News.com.au
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Trump says AUS "absolutely" could and "probably will" suffer a housing collapse similar to the US: Today Tonight
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RP Data and Rismark International bury heads firmly in each others sandbox: news.com.au
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A warning to those struggling on fixed interest rates: news.com.au
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Umbrella Manufacturer's Association says we need a million new umbrellas over the next five years and calls for increased umbrella production despite falling umbrella sales. : SMH
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"Pent-up demand is as fatuous ... as pent-up demand for Rolls-Royces?...": Sydney Morning Herald
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900,000 households face mortgage stress: the age
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Housing bubble bursting in India too: the age
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US: The Housing Abyss: BusinessWeek?
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Beach house prices under threat: the age
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When a love affair goes sour: news.com.au
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Heads in sandcastles: brisbane times
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Stand-off between Brisbane house buyers and sellers: Courier Mail
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House prices head south, north and east: SMH
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Property developer's land bank loses $147 million: The Australian
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Bank thinks less tax on deposits might encourage saving: Sydney Morning Herald
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Perth median house price dropping $1000 per week. Rental vacancy has almost doubled. For sale inventory exploding. REIWA
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GEN-Y wastes $48b a year when they could be buying a piece of the bubble: news.com.au
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NZ: Cracks open in property sector nzherald
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UK: Are house prices heading for a 1990s-style crash? the times
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'Overvalued' house prices tipped to fall: abc.net.au
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We've seen the highest prices for housing – in real terms – that we will probably see in our lifetimes.: dailkreckoning.com.au
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Real Estate Industry of NSW in a panic about failing investment market, claiming rental shortage in Sydney: smh.com.au
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Government tries to stop Unscrupulous Opportunistic Bad Guys from being Nasty and buying houses for what they are worth from Innocent Australian Working Families who cleverly borrowed more than they can afford to repay to pay more than thei
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Goodbye McMansion: thenorternnews.com.au
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Real estate market nowhere near a bottom: businessday
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UK mortgage approvals fall 56% to new low: timesonline
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Recession UK: The £238,000 flat that has lost 70% of its value in two years: mailonline.co.uk
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UK: House prices in London are falling faster than anywhere else in the UK.
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World credit crisis puts heat on mortgages: ANZ: The Age
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NZ: Sold: For $145k less in a year: nzherald.co.nz
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NZ: Property sales plunge in May, some price falls too - Harcourts
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Drop in rental prices unexpected - expert. only sane people could see it coming.
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Oh the irony: Gambling chip builder undoine by horse racing investments: smh.com.au
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Shock for tenants over loan default: smh.com.au
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Perth home prices tumble
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UK: 'House prices to fall until 2010': the options for buyers and sellers. Turns out its not different there, lucky it really really is different here: telegraph.co.uk
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Central Bank Has Lost Control Of Credit Crisis: dailyreckoning.com.au
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Beware the property market's slippery slope: SMH
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House price forecasts that aren't really forecasts at all: telegraph.co.uk (thank goodness our bank economists all call it as they see it)
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Australia Loses Mind By Proposing Its Own Fannie Mae: Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis
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The top 10 advantages of low-rent living (from 2006 and overseas, but very good)
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Sydney, Perth prices to tumble: The Australian
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Greed is at the root of the housing crisis: Kenneth Davidson The Age
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Property Speculators face Wild Ride: smh.com.au
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UK 4 Dec 07: Housing shortage is growing concern for Brits: aboutproperty.co.uk
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UK 21 Feb 2008: UK housing market close to collapse, analyst says: The Times
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UK 3 Jun 2008: Wrecking ball hits housing market: guardian.co.uk
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UK 9 Jun 2008: Average rent down 9% according to the Association of Residential Letting Agents (!) : aboutproperty.co.uk
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A house is not an investment; it's a consumer item.: dailyreckoning.com.au
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"Suzanne Reseached This" Century21 advertisement: youtube
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"Suzanne Reseached This" part 2: Seattle housing bubble blog.
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Funny advertorial with comments on news.com.au. The people making comments have worked it out.
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Delinquency rates have reached historical highs, with NSW the worst: the Australian
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HIA fuel housing shortage myth: news.com.au
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Property becomes an investment turn-off: news.com.au
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Home Grants Scheme Blasted
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The Bubble: washingtonpost.com
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Stevens hates inflation, Bernanke hates savers: Wall Street Journal
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Proof that real estate can go to $0 overnight: Daily Telegraph
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Contradiction in terms tries an old scam: Daily Telegraph
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BIS Shrapnel play puppet to the Real Estate industry and creates more pricing speculation: news.com.au
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Aussie John says sell: Daily Telegraph
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The boom has turned to bust: nzherald.co.nz
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Boom means rates could send speculators bust: The Australian
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Surprise! Builder says that Warren Buffet says that now is the time to buy same builder's spec houses.... in PERTH!
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UK: Home is where the pain is businessspectator.com.au
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Americans turn to credit cards to keep afloat: Crikey.com.au
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RE agent: "it's getting harder and harder to sell," brisbane times
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'Housing Rich' fastest growing emergency welfare claimants: Daily Tele
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Rates will stay high: RBA chief Glenn Stevens: The Australian
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Myth That House Prices Never Fall May Be Shattering: guide2.co.nz
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Britain's on the brink: Business Spectator
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RE industry threatens to withdraw advertising in NZ if news is not more "favourable": ONE NEWS NZ
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RPData tells speculators what they want to hear: news.com
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REIQ picks a number and says Brisbane rents to rise $45/wk, forgets to mention rising vacancy rates: Brisbane Times
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Qld rental vacancy rates - see above
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Alan Kohler talks about recession: Business Spectator
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Stephen Koukoulas talks about recession: FN Arena
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Australia's economy shed jobs in May, Economists expectations off the mark: Sydney Morning Herald
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High rates scare off borrowers: news.com.au
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Dramatic decline in sales in NZ: stuff.co.nz
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Improving prices in NZ: NZHerald
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Repayment fears kill house market: Daily Telegraph
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A "lost sense of self worth" in Sydney: Daily Telegraph
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Property bubble leads to crash landing: Bryan Kavanagh the Age
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Global house prices - Structural cracks
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Can't sell vacant lots in Canberra: Canberra Times
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Brits discovering the truth of the housing shortage too: Money Week
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UK: How far will your house price fall?: MoneyWeek?
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Property: sell now: NZ Sunday Star Times
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Global house prices: Structural cracks: the economist
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House prices post a big improvement: AAP
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NZ governor predicts house prices to improve by 22% over 18 months: TVNZ
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Sales have "plummeted" in Queensland as demand falls: The Courier-Mail?
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Construction slump points to economic downturn: abc
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Australian House Prices Improve Most in Five Years on Higher Rates : bloomberg
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Desperate speculators rush to off-load property on the Gold Coast: goldcoast.com.au
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Real rental vacancy rates 3 times the fantasy rates of the REI: SMH
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NSW Opposition poroposes shared negative equity scheme: smh
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Bank of England choses to maintain the value of its currency rather than continue trying to reinf late the housing bubble: smh
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house prices fall 2.4% in May: times
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House prices may fall 13 per cent - Bollard : NZ Herald
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Nobody can afford the houses: who's going to buy them? Courier mail
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US: Housing market prices fall in 84 %
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Blight of US home foreclosures may take years to heal : AFP
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No more home loans from Macquarie. news.com.au
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Treasurer introduces legislation to deal with bank runs: The Australian
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Most overvalued property in the world ... won't fall: Sun Herald
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Missed mortgage payments rise: thewest
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Aussies reel in financial doom: news.com.au
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Australian housing shortage myth : CIJ
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Defaults hit mortgages in city's west: smh
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Hey Big Borrower: tough luck for anyone who has a home loan: smh
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Dropping A Brick: The Economist
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Good News inventory figures show US prices likely to get rapidly less silly: news.com.au
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Captain Obvious proves the point (his third post).: whirlpool.net.au
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After the bubble bursts: As Home Prices Drop Low Enough, a Committed Renter (who understands the difference between price and value) Decides to Buy : New York Times
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47% of investors and a third of homeowners may be forced to sell: news.com.au survey
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Adelaide mortgage belt plunges 10 to 15%: AdelaideNow?
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Lower house prices can make you happy: telegraph.co.uk
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The reports of huge numbers of buildings left vacant explodes the myth: Brett Bates: smh
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Bubblepedia in the news : smh.com.au
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Sex-for-development pair found corrupt
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Concern over 32,803 empty homes: Adelaide Advertiser
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Double digit interest rates 'within months' : news.com.au
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Mortgage defaults soar by 329pc : Herald Sun
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Auctions: an absolute joke : theage.com.au
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Sydney awash with empty dwellings
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Housing boom shows signs of softening : ABC
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Glut prompts Perth house price improvement : abc
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House prices on the improve : Sunday Times
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Improvement ahead for global house prices :the economist
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How to hold your speculation all the way to the bottom: New Idea
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When bad ideas go bad : businessspectator
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bigger house in a better suburb - bigger losses when bubble bursts : money.ninemsn
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World According to ...Robert Shiller : portfolio.com
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Hope for rates to improve; borrowers to pay more reasonable rent to savers: West Australian
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Bad news for builders, costs to rise 16k while market slowing: West Australian
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Bad news for speculators : No one can afford to buy their gambling chips: news.com.au
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Speculator hopes fade - First home buyers can't afford thier crazy prices : SMH
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Australian homes the world's least affordable, survey says : the Australian
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Your dream - or nightmare : domain.com.au
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Budget fails to reinf late housing bubble : the Australian
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Not too late to loose your shirt buying beach shacks in Horrocks: thewest.com.au
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Bloodbath on Broadway : postnewspapers.com.au
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A Comparison of the US and Australian Housing Markets: It's different here! RBA
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Patience is a virtue in first-home game : domain.com.au
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Beechwood collapsed because of the glut of houses for sale: Michael MacNamara? of APM: ABC
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Wealthy Sydneysiders 'feeling the pinch' : money-au
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Real estate boom slows: Donnybrook Mail
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Short-changed : Daniel Cox SMH
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The Bubble Economy: contrarian investor's journal
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Revolving Credit Commitments Down 19.4% in March : dailyreckoning
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Beechwood Homes families left in limbo by collapse: Daily Telegraph
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Heartbreak as repossessions hit suburbs : The Australian
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The bursting of the bubble: money-au.com.au
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House Rules Change: Credit tightening, who's going to pay those crazy prices?: smh
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Home price hogwash: David Cunningham - theAge
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Credit crunch dogs retirees: no more pretending capital gains are income.; theAge
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Leading home builder goes bust: Hobart Mercury
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House values to fall 10pc more: builder : thewest
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Rate rises hit house sales The Australian
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Families spending half of income on debt
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House bubble bursts, but whose fault is it?
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Greedy American Bankers ruin the clever plans of innocent Aussie battlers. Borrowing more than they can afford so they can pay more than houses are worth won't make them gazillionairres. So unfair. sixtyminutes
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REIV begging for even more of your money as auctions collapse: the Australian
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Housing Prices Under Pressure. Aussie Wealth Review
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Sydney properties halve in price daily telegraph
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Wanting to believe the worst is over - ABC
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Cost of tax break on family homes put at $13b a year - SMH
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Horror Budget or horror interest rates - ABC
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US - giving away money induces horror inf lation and does not change the fact that Americans are getting poorer. dailyreckoning
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House prices under pressure - the Australian
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Construction industry headed for a bust after years of overbuilding. Reporter understands but economist confused -ABC
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REIWA begs government for more money for speculators to they can drive prices higher - thewest
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Sydney rents up 9.4% - Headline cherrypicks any old number and says 20% - Dopey Daily Telegraph makes the mistake of linking the report it is quoting.
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Homespeculators allowed to discard compulsory super as well - you will pay for their retirement. Daily Telegraph
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the debt hangover - theage/smh
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House price deterioration raises slowdown doubts, increased hope for improved interest rates - The Australian
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Housing bubble loses momentum as prices resume their fall smh.com.au
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Economists and forecasters competing for the Irving Fischer Permanently High Plateau Trophy on ABC Inside Business
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One million new homes needed, says PM: 830,376 empty not enough.
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Optimistic outlook for property price falls as rates rise - abc.net.au
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Melbourne's property jitters - herald sun
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Housing boom turns to bust - hobart mercury
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Councillors want to charge higher rates for empty houses and encourage squatting - 120 000 empth houses in Sydney smh.com.au
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Most People Still Think - “You Can’t Go Wrong in Property†dailyreckoning.com.au
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The Correction in the U.S. Housing Market Made Its Sharpest Move Ever - dailyreckoning.com.au
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US house prices in freefall - americans don't love their homes like we do - crikey.com.au
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Have mortgage and rent payments reached breaking point? - Sarah Mills has got it- money.ninemsn.com
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Economist predicts retail data will determine RBA rate decision. Get out there and buy yourself a treat or two if you want rational interest rates. bt
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Nobody's ordering new houses built, (must be plenty already) - therefore rents will rise! the age
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Soaring rates stunt property boom
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Way to ease the housing bubble
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Nobody's buying existing houses - therefore rents will rise! more craziness from Jessa Irvine SMH
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Rates drive fall in house prices
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Agents hit out over no go list
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House shortage leads to rent stress - more guff at news.com.au - with comments - go and comment folks
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Home truths - don't buy there
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Aussie John Symmond begs the RBA for more; The Age
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Interest rate rises behind record property drop
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Tycoon off loads 'mega mansion' for $30m
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Housing market puts the squeeze on community: theage
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RBA Buys $780 Million in Residential Mortgage Backed Securities dailyreckoning.com
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Australia's Non Banks Face Mortgage Bond Freeze, Firstmac Says; bloomberg
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Homeowners warned about home loan rate rises by big banks
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Bank balances its books smh.com.au Annette Kent Hunters Hill
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Rates pain goes on: smh.com.au
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CPI figures bad for rates
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How to plan for a fiasco
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Everything's coming up roses. smh.com.au Gittins
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Rate rises stress Victorians
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1 in 5 stressed borrowers losing home
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Rents still cheap by world standards
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Through the roof. smh.com.au
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Crisis breeding 'generation rent'
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Who do you trust? Market saga raises questions over security and regulation
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Developers don't dictate policy: Sartor
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Buyers scarce despite house shortages
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State can sell your home
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Gloom blankets the housing sector
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