Time to buy a house

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I don’t make this call lightly. And I’m only talking to potential owner occupiers. It’s time to make some low ball offers in the property market.

Why would I say that when my own base case is for property prices to keep falling? Especially in Sydney and Melbourne where I argue that prices will keep grinding lower for several decades and end up 40% lower in real terms?

The following reasons:

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About the author
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.