Follow the Yellow Brick Road to lower house prices

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Mark Bouris is in trouble after his Yellow Brick Road reported a $34m loss, via Domain:

“It is now particularly hard for mortgage originators and brokers to assist borrowers to obtain an approved home loan,” Mr Bouris said in a statement.

“In all the years of being involved in the home loan business, I have never seen such difficult borrowing conditions. These factors have caused an adverse impact to our new lending, particularly in the December quarter,” he said.

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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.
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