Pundits predict house prices 2018

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It begins with Ray White:

For the last three years pundits have been saying the housing crash is coming, says Brian White, but while the resilient markets in Sydney and Melbourne might moderate, continued low interest rates would dampen talk of housing bubbles.

The chairman of real estate agency Ray White Group said it was “too early to bring out a crystal ball” on the balance of the year. The timing of the Reserve Bank’s next move on rates would determine the direction of housing markets.

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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.