The housing bubble is going to bust this time

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Domainfax & Co are desperately fighting to keep the permanently high plateau for house prices alive today:

The housing boom on Australia’s east coast will be over in two years but a crash like the US subprime crisis in 2007 is not likely, research and forecast group BIS Oxford Economics says.

The strong house price growth in 2016 and 2017 would wind down until 2019, after which an upside could return, BIS said in its Residential Property Prospects 2017 to 2020 report.

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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.