The “Tapping Super For Home Purchase” Conundrum!

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May 10 2024 | 00:17:14

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Show Notes

Housing affordability is shot, as we have been discussing, thanks to demand stoked by high migration, higher lending multiples as the financial system was deregulation, and higher interest rates mirroring the RBA’s battle to tame inflation. As a result first time buyers are delaying their purchase by several years, and more borrowers are leveraged up to the gills, despite first home grant schemes, and shared equity schemes, which as the Productivity Commission showed did help a few get into the market, but lifted prices for everyone else, so did not help structurally. Australians are already among the highest carriers of […]

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