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The future of property prices in Australia hinges almost exclusively on interest rates.
It's become a national sport ro bash the banks and intimidate the RBA to keep rates low and the worse the economy gets the lower they will go.
If economic circumstances mean rates have to rise that will be the end, hundreds of thousands of people will default on mortgages and the political fallout wil be immense.
So every effort will be put into steering away from that scenerio, but the fudging can't go on forever, things will change, rates will have to rise, but when... is anyones guess.
In the meantime the property market justs drifts down slowly not because of interest rates but because prices are too high and people are no longer prepared to buy on optimism alone.
It's become a national sport ro bash the banks and intimidate the RBA to keep rates low and the worse the economy gets the lower they will go.
If economic circumstances mean rates have to rise that will be the end, hundreds of thousands of people will default on mortgages and the political fallout wil be immense.
So every effort will be put into steering away from that scenerio, but the fudging can't go on forever, things will change, rates will have to rise, but when... is anyones guess.
In the meantime the property market justs drifts down slowly not because of interest rates but because prices are too high and people are no longer prepared to buy on optimism alone.