Melbourne housing has decoupled from mortgages

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By Leith van Onselen

Victoria’s Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (DELWP) has released October’s data on the number of housing transfers and mortgage lodgements/discharges, which suggests that Victoria’s (read Melbourne’s) housing market is well and truly in the blow-off phase of the bubble.

According to the DTPLI data, the volume of housing transfers in Victoria jumped 6% in the year to October in rolling annual terms (see next chart).

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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.