Iron ore to the moon!

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Never let the truth get in the way of a good price rally in the iron ore market.

With another Chinese property rescue on the way, why not? Well, there is this.

  • John Lam expects home prices to fall for at least another two years before a recovery in China’s residential property market can take hold.
  • Lam said people who bought homes in the past decade may all be loss making, which has “fundamentally changed housing price expectations.”
  • He anticipates used-home prices in top-tier Chinese cities to decline another 10% in 2026 and 5% in 2027, unless Beijing introduces major stimulus measures.
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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.