Apartment defaults set to soar

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An issue long discussed with a sensible developer preparing for the worst, via the AFR:

One of the biggest apartment developers in Melbourne – Malaysia’s UEM Sunrise – is prepared for as much as a 10 per cent default rate on the settlement of apartments in its $330 million CBD tower, signalling just how difficult the market is about to get following tighter credit conditions and falling prices.

…UEM Sunrise managing director Anwar Syahrin Abdul Ajib: “Seventy per cent of our [sales] came from overseas investors.” Wayne Taylor

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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.