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It’s now highly likely that Australian mortgage rates are going to rise before the 2017 calendar year is out. While rate rises will not happen overnight, this week’s dramatic events on Wall Street all but lock in higher interest rates around the world, including Australia.

…This week, I happened to be yarning with Harry Triguboff, Australia’s biggest apartment owner and developer. Harry believes that, while there might be an initial dwelling price fall on higher interest rates, over time, higher interest rates will actually cause a further rise in dwelling prices.

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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.