Treasury head: Sydney an “unequivocal bubble”

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Treasury secretary John Fraser appeared in Parliament today and did not mince his words:

“When you look at the housing price bubble evidence, it’s unequivocally the case in Sydney…certainly the case in higher priced areas in Melbourne.

It does worry me that the very low historical interest rates are encouraging people to perhaps over-invest in housing.

“You just have to see these renovation shows … to realise something is amiss.”

There is also this:

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Bloody doomsayer.

About the author
David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.