McCrann: Property at permanently high plateau

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From Terry McCrann:

The first thing to be said is that for the 15 million or so Australians who are just “camping out” — in former prime minister Paul Keating’s famous, and fatuous, reference; those who don’t live in Melbourne or Sydney — the response would most probably be: what boom?

Although yes, just as all property prices in a city are connected however faintly, the Melbourne-Sydney boom has tended to drag other cities up a little as well.

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About the author
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.