Gottiboff: Chinese bailing on bubble

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I’m not sure where one stops and the other begins so let’s assume it’s a single entity, from Gottiboff today:

The unprecedented campaign to reduce dwelling prices is starting to have a real impact. The best forward indicator, Sydney apartment prices, has started to ease and sales volumes are falling.

And it would appear that the small fall has extended to cottages in many Sydney suburbs. For the moment, the boom is over but there are wider more disturbing signs, so Treasurer Scott Morrison needs to be very careful what he does in the budget.

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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.