Sydney property weakens

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From Bloomberg:

“There is a tsunami of home supply coming,” said Nigel Stapledon, head of real estate research at the University of New South Wales Business School and former chief economist at Westpac.

“The market is going to be tested in accepting this sort of supply. It’s not like there is economic growth to support it. Income growth has gone from boom time to the lowest in a number of years and population growth has eased back.”

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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.