Apartment bust gathers pace

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Via New Daily:

An apartment glut in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney will mean better deals for renters, but more pain for developers and investors for the next one to two years.

Pete Wargent, co-founder of property investment advisory firm Allen Wargent, told The New Daily that the current oversupply of apartments in parts of Australia’s major cities had made it much harder for landlords to find tenants and, consequently, had led to a drop in rents.

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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.