Off the plan takes a bath

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UBS at The Australian:

Three in ten new homes sold off the plan in Sydney are now settling with a lower valuation than the original contract sale price, new figures show.

The ratio of off the plan buyers who have made paper losses is similarly high in Melbourne and Brisbane, according to research from investment bank UBS.

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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.