10% of apartment buyers walk away

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Nasty, via the AFR:

One in 10 off-the-plan apartment sales have fallen over during the past three months as lower valuations due to weaker demand and oversupply prompted banks to reject final loan approvals, forcing buyers to give up millions of dollars in deposits.

Out of around 35,000 off-the-plan settlements between March and June, 3041 have collapsed due to problems with a lower valuation, an analysis by Digital Finance Analytics showed.

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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.