Sydney’s mortgage belt is crumbling

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We know that auction clearance rates are falling away at a good clip:

What is less obvious to the untrained eye is that Sydney has begun to repeat its 2003 bust in which house prices corrected 20% and some areas as much as 40%:

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Auction clearances in Sydney’s mortgage belt – which runs in a ring from the southern beaches though Canterbury-Bankstown, Parramatta and the North West – have collapsed deep into the 30%s.

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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.