Domain bullies renters to buy

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From Sydney Morning Domain:

Raising interest rates on home loans held by property investors could boost bank profits by up to $400 million a year, experts say. But renters, in particular first home buyers trying to get off the rental roundabout, are likely to pay for it.

…Domain Group senior economist Andrew Wilson expects tenants will be slugged with the extra monthly repayments, especially in Sydney where “there is a chronic shortage of property”.

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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.