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HOUSING CRASH

Housing bubble is now official, commence arse-covering (panic)!

April 7, 2017April 10, 2017 Matt EllisAustralian Economics, Australian Housing
housing bubble - everybody panic!

Well this is all getting very exciting isn’t it?! The hills are suddenly alive with the sound of housing bubble music. Never mind that a growing mosh-pit of ‘doomsaying’ international economic peak bodies, ratings agencies, investment houses, economists, researchers, entitled … Read more

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Real Estate myths are being destroyed: “There’s never been a worse time to buy…”

December 11, 2015December 17, 2015 Matt EllisAustralian Housing

Like all marketing exercises, real estate is primarily sold by exploiting our fears. In order to exploit our fears, marketers must first stoke fears. And the stoking of fear requires one or more invented problems, which we must be taught … Read more

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Submission to Home Ownership Inquiry – Who will teach young people about risk?

August 20, 2015 Matt EllisAustralian Housing

Following my recent article on Australia’s epic housing bubble, (and the unavoidable conclusion that the only way to restore affordability is for the market to experience the inevitable crash that follows a bubble of such historic proportions), I submitted an … Read more

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The housing crash we had to have: A Gen Y perspective on the bubble

June 12, 2015 Matt EllisAustralian Economics, Australian Housing

So bubble mania has finally hit the mainstream. The housing bubble question has landed squarely at the feet of the Prime Minister and his treasurer, and only 10 to 15 years late… What a relief it is then to hear … Read more

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