Aussie housing valuations at record highs

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By Leith van Onselen

The release yesterday of the national finance and wealth accounts for the March 2015 quarter revealed that Australian housing values are just a whisker under their all-time highs when measured against household incomes and GDP.

As shown in the next chart, the ratio of total housing assets (both structures and land) was 6.75 times aggregate employee earnings as at March 2015, marginally below the record high 6.9 times earnings recorded in March 2010:

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About the author
Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.