RBA admits low interest rates will boost cost of housing
By Cameron Micallef
17 February 2021
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The RBA has confirmed that it is closely monitoring the impact of low interest rates on the level of housing loan commitments and acknowledged the “inherent” risk of soaring asset prices in the housing market.
The housing market has been touted for its resilience, the minutes from the RBA’s February board meeting revealed, with the bank acknowledging the market’s key role in the country’s economic recovery.
Noting that the market’s resilience has been better than expected, the RBA said: “Housing prices had recently been rising across most of Australia following an earlier period where conditions had been quite variable. This had returned the national housing price index to levels reached around four years earlier.”
Experts concerned Treasury’s dependence on ‘cheap money’ will ratchet up house prices
By Maja Garaca Djurdjevic
15 February 2021
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Housing experts and economists are concerned that the Treasury’s ongoing dependence on “cheap money” policy will further ratchet up house price and widen the gap between rich and poor.
Housing experts and economists have hit out at the government over its perceived lack of attention in regard to the impacts the housing system poses to economic productivity and growth.
A UNSW Future Centre study, commissioned by the Housing Productivity Research Consortium, found that 84 per cent of the surveyed 47 leading economists and 40 senior experts from government, industry and academia agreed that Australian governments have paid too little attention to how housing outcomes affect productivity and growth.
Could ‘cheap money’ ratchet up house prices? 16 February 2021 Maja Garaca Djurdjevic
Housing experts and economists are concerned that the Treasury’s ongoing dependence on “cheap money” policy will further ratchet up house price and widen the gap between rich and poor.
Housing experts and economists have hit out at the government over its perceived lack of attention in regard to the impacts the housing system poses to economic productivity and growth.
A UNSW Future Centre study, commissioned by the Housing Productivity Research Consortium, found that 84 per cent of the surveyed 47 leading economists and 40 senior experts from government, industry and academia agreed that Australian governments have paid too little attention to how housing outcomes affect productivity and growth.
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The overwhelming majority of Australia’s top economists and housing experts agree Australian governments pay too little attention to housing system impacts on productivity and growth, according to a new survey.
In the UNSW City Futures Centre study, led by Honorary Professor Duncan Maclennan and commissioned by the Housing Productivity Research Consortium formed by a group of private sector and non-profit stakeholders, 84 per cent of respondents agreed with the statement: Australian governments have paid too little attention to how housing outcomes also affect productivity and growth.
And 80 per cent agreed that: Rising mortgage debt poses an economic stability risk to Australia.