Developer legend: Strayan property headed for “spectacular, huge crash”

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Via The Australian:

Speaking exclusively to The Weekend Australian while in Adelaide this week watching the cycling team he co-owns compete in the Tour Down Under, Michael Drapac says his company’s sole focus is now in the US, where he has made millions from buying up assets that were unwanted in the wake of the global financial crisis.

Drapac, 62, says the Australian market is “completely out of whack” and, while a correction in the next few years of up to 30 per cent “would not be painless” for residential owners, the impact on property developers would be greater and potentially catastrophic for the economy.

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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.