First home buyer demand fading as housing busts

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By Leith van Onselen

CoreLogic has released an interesting report suggesting the surge in first home buyer (FHB) activity is fading as housing values fall:

The latest data on housing finance from the Australian Bureau of Statistics for December 2018 shows that perhaps that trend is reversing…

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About the author
Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.