by David Collyer | Sep 28, 2011 | Press Releases
photo credit: Jakob E28 September 2011 MELBOURNE:- 40,000 young families turned away from a lifetime of heavy debt and bitter disappointment in the last year refusing to accept Australia’s grossly inflated house prices, according to a survey overnight by website...
by David Collyer | Sep 22, 2011 | Commentary
photo credit: bonkedproducerThe vendor-agent relationship is conducted behind closed doors, far from statistical analysis and horrid little sticky beaks like me. But fresh anecdotal evidence is coming quick and fast. The gap between vendor’s price expectations and...
by David Collyer | Sep 21, 2011 | Commentary
photo credit: Amarand AgasiWestpac Chief Economist Ted Evans nailed his colors to the mast with his optimistic report ‘Australian housing: the bubble myth’. Evans forecasts steady prices for the next two years while household incomes rise 7 per cent pa, “setting a...
by David Collyer | Sep 20, 2011 | Articles
photo credit: h.koppdelaney By Philip Soos This article first appeared at www.theconversation.edu.au and is republished under Creative Commons. One aspect of housing and stock market bubbles continually repeats: the vast majority of economists either miss or deny...
by David Collyer | Sep 17, 2011 | Commentary
photo credit: Soon.17 September 2011 MELBOURNE:- Exponential growth in the number of unsold properties overhanging the Melbourne market continues, up 18 per cent in the last month alone. “In the last five months ‘Stale Stock’ in Melbourne postcodes 3000-3207 has...