Sydney property bubble “pricked” and deflating “fast”

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Via the LF Economics client letter:

Since our August 2017 report arguing the peak had come and gone, and as discussed with yourself, or your colleagues over the last several months, we had been patiently and discretely gathering in-the-field research to validate a few outstanding findings that required time to make an objective analysis for the status of the Sydney housing market. Based on these findings, I think it is fair to say that the credit-fuelled Sydney housing bubble has been pricked and appears to be deflating at a relatively moderate to fast pace relative to what the official data is suggesting.

Our key in-the-field findings to justify our view are as follows:

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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.