Apartment holders in mining strongholds continue to hemorrhage losses

Tuesday 19 December 2017

From CoreLogic’s latest Pain & Gain report comes news that apartment owners in Australia’s mining strongholds hemorrhaged losses over the September quarter of 2017:

As shown above, just over one quarter of apartment holders in Brisbane sold at a loss in the September quarter, whereas the figure was around 40% in Perth (61% in regional WA) and around 40% in Darwin.

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Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.