Is supply or demand driving the property correction?

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Obviously. Via the AFR:

A sharp fall in property sales across Australia, with record lows in regional Victoria, South Australia and Queensland as well as Darwin over the December quarter, is indicative of a bank-driven credit crunch rather than dampened demand from a Sydney and Melbourne-concentrated downturn, industry experts say.

…an analysis by buyers’ agency Propertyology of the latest quarterly ABS data showed significant declines in the number of property sales over the quarter in every single capital city and regional area, including the nation’s property hotspot, Hobart.

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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.