Put your apartment on lay-buy!

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From AFR:

Reed Property Group is offering the handful of apartments left in the 228-unit Belise project in Brisbane’s Bowen Hills on a deferred settlement basis out of recognition of the difficult financing environment for investors, director Richard Ash said.

Under the plan, buyers who pay a “reasonable” deposit – of $60,000 or more – can take possession of a unit and pay monthly lease fees – equivalent to rent – and settle only in five years, when the developer would hand over the title, Mr Ash said.

What a deal! Lease a falling asset amid huge oversupply that you can’t rent because it isn’t built on the punt that in five years regulators will have allowed the return of an interest-only ponzi-scheme that has driven household debt to 200% of income.

They should change the name of the block to The Greater Fool.

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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.