How far does Sydney property have to fall?

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From McGrathmaggeddon:

Sydney’s once red-hot housing market is likely to see prices plateau or fall up to 5 per cent next year, though if there were a spike in interest rates we could see a “double digit” correction, according to veteran real estate agent John McGrath.

Speaking ahead of the release of the group’s annual market report, Mr McGrath told The Weekend Australian that any further surge in prices for Sydney would create an unhealthy market.

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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.