Archive for November, 2009

Politicians should be shouting – it’s on the house!

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The Emperor (Kevin Rudd) was back at it again recently when he commented on Australia’s skyrocketing population and quipped “I actually believe in a big Australia. I make no apology for that.” Well, Australia actually does need apologies, because critical infrastructure advice continues to fall on the deaf ears of our elected politicians.

After all, there must be something seriously amiss when past King of Spin, “Bobby Dazzler” Carr starts penning and pontificating on population policies in the Sydney Morning Herald. “Perish the thought that we can handle a bigger population” wrote the Dazzler “Some Australians must have felt similar estrangement when they read federal Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner’s defence of Australia’s runaway immigration targets, playfully comparing our population densities with those of Bangladesh.”

Then the Carr crash (with accompanying air – bag), “That Tanner is one of the best minds in federal politics will only deepen the rift between 90 per cent of Australians and their political and business leadership over population policy, or rather the absence of any policy except “more”.” It would now appear that “Bobby Dazzler” is over the selective hearing condition that plagued him in his reign of the Premier State from 1995 – 2005. The transformation went from Premier State to State of Decay to Fort Crumble and even though it did not happen overnight, it is now a nightmare.

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Maybe this vacant plot of land might make a nice residential subdivision with very little chance of flooding?

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Sydney to squeeze in 640,000 new homes by Matthew Moore – Urban Affairs Editor the Sydney Morning Herald identified “A forty per cent increase in Sydney’s population over the next 20 years means the State Government has no option but to open up scores of suburbs for new developments, according to radical proposal for Sydney to build 640,000 new dwellings.”

For this to happen, Fort Crumble would need a plan so I went in search and found that it does not look pretty, as Andrew Clennell of the Sydney Morning Herald revealed. Rees desperate to stand for something “In this respect he hopes to get something on the radar at Macquarie Street that has been lacking for the past 12 months – POLICY.”

They obviously can’t hear but thankfully they can read. “Number one on his list is transport. The transport blueprint that Rees promises to hand down sometime over the next three weeks is likely to be treated with some scepticism.” I guess he means this is like a homeless person entering Star City and requesting a seat at the High Rollers Table – after all Fort Crumble is broke. Back to Andrew “This is because of the large number of projects that Labor has promised, and then not delivered, in 14 years in power.”

Oops “Bobby Dazzler” was at the helm for ten of those years – although Fort Crumble would win a wood chopping event as they sure know how to wield that political axe.

  • North West Rail link (promised in 1998 and axed)
  • North West Metro (announced and axed)
  • Bondi Beach rail link (promised then axed)
  • Parramatta to Epping rail link (halved to Epping to Chatswood rail link)
  • CBD/second Harbour crossing rail link (promised and axed)
  • F6 through southern Sydney, (on again, off again)
  • M5 duplication (long delayed)
  • M4 East extension (long delayed)

Last month’s parliamentary pay increases and the fact that our Fort Crumble premier should be (and is) the highest “paid premier” in Australia have been vindicated. Alex Gooding had this interesting analogy on transport in the Sydney Morning Herald – Three times denied: western Sydney misses out on transport, again (great read) which really adds a poignant perspective on the political decision making processes.
Ongoing calamities when “ Paid Premier” Nathan Rees overturned an earlier decision to contribute $45.000 million for the newly anointed AFL’s western Sydney franchise to build a new home ground – again out came that axe (perish the thought of constituents contemplating the axing our “Paid Premier”)

Macquarie Equities Research – this week released this compelling graph in its Australian economics report. Sketching the outlook for housing “this note examines the recent trends in the housing sector and looks ahead to key factors to watch in 2010.” Looks like a tsunami to me.

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Macquarie Equities Research – “In our view, the key factors to consider are the favourable fundamental determinants – strong population growth and constrained supply – alongside the deteriorating level of affordability. With these factors working in opposite directions, it suggests that the more extreme forecasts of a house price bubble or a price collapse will continue to prove wide of the mark.” More of this report in next week’s edition.

Back to Andrew Clennell’s report “Sydney is experiencing transport gridlock. Public transport services in the CBD are overcrowded, even though train services are inadequate and in many suburbs non-existent. In response, transport plans are announced and then re-announced. New rail lines are proposed but then abandoned and governments blame increasing costs and global financial problems.” He did forget to mention that over the last fourteen years the NSW government also collected the highest amount of taxes in Australia’s history. In real estate terms it would be “dilapidated home – run down, neglected, yet with plenty of potential”.

So let’s look at what is happening locally. I went to Wayne Swan’s Nation Building website to see what is happening in Mosman and North Sydney municipalities. Indeed Nation Building personified – bicycle paths, perimeter fencing, a shade structure, and a few water bubblers -no wonder our economy has rebounded with such exhilarating speed. All that it takes is a plan!

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Our councils are doing it tough mentally and physically although they are making plenty out of parking fines as Vikki Campion reported in The Daily Telegraph. Where you’ll cop a parking fine. North Sydney Council collected $7,000,000 which was up 48 per cent from $4,700,000 and Mosman Council $1,700,000 up 89 per cent from $910,000. It should also be noted that Mosman Council has been aggressively investing in new parking meters so one could expect a significant revenue increase with this return on investment.

In retrospect, if our population continues to explode it would then not be unreasonable to draw a conclusion that our water supplies face significant declines too (it did happen well before the proposed population explosion). Now when you renovate or build a new home, you must provide water tanks in accordance with local Council building regulations.

So why, in any Mosman or North Sydney parks, ovals or reserves, have the respective Councils not installed water tanks? After all they have only to connect to their very own street storm water. Look at the number of parks, ovals and reserves located below street level. Balmoral Oval, Rosherville Reserve, Forsyth Park, Tunks Park, Primrose Park, Cremorne Point Reserve, Sirius Cove Reserve, Allan Border Oval, Rawson Park, Spit Reserve and Reid Park. These are but a few that are all entirely dam- dependent and coincidentally, always have their sprinklers on when it is raining.

Warragamba Dam is presently at 55 per cent capacity and declining – although the Kurnell desalination plant is soon to be completed and that will supply up to 15 per cent of Sydney’s water. Of course we can’t leave out evaporation as this coincides with policy that has also evaporated.

Then again I have never been one to water down an edition.

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Maybe our “thirty something” housing dilemma – is a false economy?

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We all love it when a plan comes together, so spare a thought for those at Fort Crumble (NSW government) who still fail to understand a plan that actually works. We all know what happens next (as you will see) and it does not look pretty for this once proud state. A decade later those horrific and planned bureaucratic bungles are now taking a major toll – (one Fort Crumble can’t collect either). Ongoing bungles at Fort Crumble are considered to be “having a real hard go”.

Just as ironic is that in NSW, infrastructure has moved into economic decline and as with all declines, they have a habit of gaining momentum that ends in a huge crash. On the other hand, when a government drives constituents to other states, it could be construed as its very own plan to fight housing affordability – better known as reducing demand. In a nutshell, no plan works when you apply the supply v demand economic theory, without applying the basic principles of meeting supply first. Housing in Australia is facing an interesting twist, because when the tools to meet supply are down, prices will keep rising – more a result of failed government forces.

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Pulpit Point, Hunters Hill (a planned estate to meet supply) photographed by Tim Mooney. The vacant marina berths may well be a result of the global financial crisis. Or was this photo taken on a weekend when the residents were out relaxing on picturesque Sydney Harbour ? (Sounds like a smart plan).

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In past editions I have referred to the ‘thirty something factor’ in Australian housing – one third rent, the other third own with a mortgage and the final third own without a mortgage. RP Data published its Weekly Property Pulse. “Housing finance data released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) this week showed that finance commitments surged during September. In particularly there was a strong bounce back in first home buyer loans which was not surprising given that it was the last month in which the First Home Buyers Grant Boost was available in full.” Bear in mind that interest rates are also increasing so here is Household Estimates 2007 – 2008 graph which makes one wonder what it will resemble after the impact of the first home buyers grants in 2009.

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This is how it looked (prior to First Home Buyers Grant Boost) when the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) was sitting around 7.25 per cent (RBA rates) and in September the cash rate was at 3.00 per cent. Currently, the cash rate is 3.50 per cent. Are the property debutantes who grabbed the grant, aware that post – global financial crisis, we are headed back to the future market? In 2010 – 11 the economy will pick up by 2.75 per cent rather than the suggested 2.25 per cent.

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Housing and occupancy orig

Whilst yet to be evaluated, rental property vacancy rates remain at record lows which in all probability forced many in rental markets to purchase property – the Sydney vacancy rate in October remained at 1.3 per cent. It is supposed to be 2.50 per cent to 3.00 per cent. According to RP Data, over the twelve month period, the weekly rents for houses (nationally) increased by 3.4 per cent (that was in a downturn). So why is The Emperor (Kevin Rudd) wasting money on renovating school halls when there is an obvious need to increase housing? (I will get to that shortly). However, this rental graph is simply scary.

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In pursuit of answers, I found that the culprit (surprise – surprise) was our very own Fort Crumble when I read in the Sydney Morning Herald“NSW not a developer’s nirvana … it’s planning hell” by Aaron Gadiel. “if you were to accept everything that has been said about development in NSW, you might think it was open slather; a developer’s heaven – that planning was out of control or that, development was running rampant.”

“Nothing could be further from the truth.”

“It is time for a reality check.”

“Developers are not fond of NSW. Not at all.” Based on the graph above I would suggest that those in rental accommodation would feel the same, given that when it comes to ‘bricks and mortar’ Fort Crumble is ‘as thick as a brick’ with absolutely no intellectual mortar between the layers.

“In development terms, NSW is neither one, nor even number two. After decades of more building activity than any other state in Australia, we lost our first place ranking to Victoria in 2008. To compound the indignity, in the same year we also fell behind Queensland.” What a plan!

“Victoria and Queensland have stolen a disproportionate share of Australia’s building investment. In the financial year ending in June, NSW accounted for only 23 per cent of Australia’s building activity, while we made up 32 per cent of Australia’s population. The Australian Bureau of Statistics only records one other occasion where NSW was anything but first – and that was in 1977.”

So let’s look at our esteemed Premier Nathan Rees who (as he keeps telling us) is “having a real hard go.” Not sure exactly what is going in NSW aside from the government. “The economic damage to NSW from its poor performance is dramatic. The construction activity made possible by developers contributes $78 billion to the national economy each year. For every $1 million in construction expenditure, 27 jobs are created throughout the broader economy. When we lose development dollars to other states, we’re losing income and jobs that rightfully belong to NSW residents.”

I refer you again to the above graph, “Sydneysiders have already been feeling the pinch of housing shortage. Rents in outer suburban Sydney have gone up by more than 20 per cent in the past two years. In the middle ring suburbs rents have jumped near to 30 per cent “. What a business plan.

For our Mosman residents I jumped over to Australian Property Monitors to access the Mosman occupancy data.
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Fort Crumble is in total decay and Fort Fumble has absolutely NFI (No Financial Idea) as to exactly what is happening in the Australian property demographic markets. And my mantra is not to castigate – abuse or criticise our elected politicians on the astounding execution of their Nation Building expertise.

Clip of the Week

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In search, I went to YouTube – where I discovered one of the most amazing clips that signifies achievement. Unlike elected politicians, he is a man of few words yet his actions speak much louder than his few words. Backed by Delta Goodrem singing “Together We Are One” this clip should be re-played at every household and sales meeting.

Inspiration personified – Gavin’s Bridge Climb

Cheers

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Times have changed – and politicians “FAIL” with housing!

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Politicians are an interesting breed where on one side we have a government that finishes nothing and on the other side, an opposition that says nothing. Would it then be fair to assume that we are expected to know nothing as that way, when we see nothing, assume that something is actually happening?

These days, The Emperor (Kevin Rudd) is better credentialled to be sales manager of Flight Centre given his vastly accruing frequent flyer points.

With respect to The Emperor, we are spending billions on schools yet the last time I looked, nobody is living in them. So why renovate at this point? (plaques aside). It is very clear that as a matter of national urgency, Australia needs to be building housing accommodation to meet demand – our elected politicians (under the stress/threat of having to make a decision) forget that the property industry is the largest employer in Australia. Maybe they should read this article written by Stephen Lunn from The AustralianHousing stress getting worse – experts.

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Tim Mooney Photography – Greenwich Point, Greenwich

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No better example when The Australian and the Melbourne Institute jointly hosted a Road to Recovery conference this week. Enter Wayne Swan who said, “We’ve got to really get going when it comes to building a supply of housing or we’ll hit capacity constraints that will hurt us in the very near future.”

Wayne, we are already there as Australian Council of Social Service chief executive officer Clare Martin pointed out. “Some 850,000 Australians are now in housing stress, with rental costs gobbling up a high proportion of their income.”

On top of that, the OECD announced this week that food prices in Australia have increased 41.3 per cent since the start of 2000, which then prompted a Government minister to call “for greater competition” (no solution offered) just a comment. For the record, Coles and Woolworths account for approximately 80 per cent of the Australian market.

Back to Clare Martin “A third are low – income households. Add to that the 105,000 Australians who are homeless and you start to get a real idea of how big the problem is.” Remember that Wayne told us “we’ve got to get going” Clare Martin announced the Government’s $6.4 billion commitment to social and community housing (recently wound back by $750 million). Wayne, that is actually going backwards, “Nation Building was going to build 20,000 new dwellings (but) the outstanding need right now is 250,000 affordable homes.” The Australian reported just 73 homes so far had been completed under the Government’s spending plan. This end of the property market needs to be wound up, not back, as the top end is doing very well (Lachlan and Sarah Murdoch purchased ‘Le Manoir’ for $23 million this week).

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La Manoir – Lachlan and Sarah Murdoch’s new Eastern Suburbs home

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Economist Saul Eslake told the Road to Recovery conference, “One lingering effect of the financial crisis which is likely to exacerbate the housing shortage for some time yet to come is the difficulty which proponents of multi – unit housing developments are continuing to encounter in gaining access to finance.” So the banks lend to purchasers, yet won’t lend to developers which explains why, in Australia, multi – unit housing developments remain at historically low levels.

Alas, a Road to Recovery where Fort Fumble (Federal government) has turned the vehicle around and is attempting to drive backwards along the recovery road (with hazard lights beaming).

The Future Fund has around $60 billion in funds so why should it not enter the Australian property markets given the major banks’ reluctance to fund this emergency infrastructure market. It was built on selling government assets (Commonwealth and Telstra) so about time these funds were injected back into Australia.

Why does The Emperor still allow the Foreign Investment Review Board (FIRB) to relax regulations so that foreigners can purchase “new properties”. When “Finish Nothing” government spokesman for Assistant Treasurer Nick Sherry (he must be away too) said, despite the rule changes, the FIRB rules were designed to spur the creation of additional housing supply rather than add to affordability problems. Remember “Hogan’s Heroes”, Sgt Schultz – I know nothing!

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) smashed this “dumber and dumber” market assessment when it revealed this week, that fewer Australians own their homes outright and a greater number now rent (official data reflects worsening housing affordability). The Sydney Morning Herald journalist Chris Zappone wrote Home ownership down, renting up: ABS

“The proportion of people who owned outright by their occupants has dropped from 42 per cent in 1994 – 95 to 33 per cent in 2007 – 08. Over this same period the proportion of households renting rose to 30 per cent in 2007 – 08, from 26 per cent in 1994 -95.” Bear in mind that these figures will change significantly because First Home Buyers accepted the governments (collective) bribes to enter the property markets (casualties are yet to be determined).

Fort Fumble has wound back its boost for new and established dwellings to $3,500 from $7,000 (established) and $7,000 from $14,000 for new. At Fort Crumble (NSW government) you can collect $10,500 until the end of the year for established which then drops to $7,000 in the first half of 2010 and (steak knives) new dwellings $17,000 till the end of the year dropping to $10,000 first half of 2010.

Over to Business Spectator (free subscription) – Housing hopes which is always a fantastic daily read.

  • The number of Australian home loans rose by 5.1 per cent in September, after a downward revised fall in August of 1.9 per cent and July -1.6 per cent. Annually, loans are 8.1 per cent higher. This is the highest number of loans since January 2008.
  • Growth was driven by loans for construction (+8.1 per cent) and loans for established dwellings (+5.0 per cent, 85 per cent of total loans). Loans for new construction are at their highest since December 1994.
  • Loans were strong across states: NSW up 7 per cent, Victoria up 3.1 per cent, QLD up 1.2 per cent, SA up 1.1 per cent and WA up 14.4 per cent.
  • First home-buyers accounted for 26.1 per cent of new loans from 24.7 per cent in but still down from the May peak of 28.5 per cent. The size of a first home-buyer loan rose to $274,600 from $270,800 in August and $260,900 in September last year.
  • Loans to investors (by value) fell 0.1 per cent after an 8.3 per cent gain in August and are 18.4 per cent higher annually.

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Source: Crikey – Lending figures vindicate RBA’s interest rate strategy.

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Interesting to note that the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) increased the cash rate in October +0.25 per cent and +0.25 per cent November 2009. Consumer sentiment dropped 2.5 per cent in November (Movember) following consecutive interest rate rises. The Westpac – Melbourne Institute consumer sentiment index eased to 118.3 in November, from 121.4 in October, although it remained 38.3 per cent higher than last year’s level. The October rate increase saw the mortgage market contract for the first time in nineteen months from $2.9 billion in September to $2.6 billion.

Banking prediction of the week?

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NAB’s chief economist Alan Oster said growing consumer confidence and an improvement in business conditions had increased the likelihood of another 25 basis point increase before Christmas.

Interesting comment. Never before has the RBA increased cash rates beyond two months in a row. Over to Big Al at the NAB “This is a pleasing result and as such, we expect there to be a 25 basis point increase in every RBA meeting till March.”

Clip of the week?

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That would be “see nothing” – when applied to border security, housing and our road to recovery at Fort Fumble. Happy 40th Sesame Street and yes, history does repeat itself as do political episodes.

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Australian real estate needs to get trigger – happy!

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Forget the spin and electoral rhetoric – Australia had just one quarter of negative growth yet in the wash – up many businesses did very well from the (apparently) worst global financial crisis (GFC) since the Great Depression. Danny John from the Sydney Morning Herald wrote “What crisis? Westpac gains ground from the GFC “A close study of Westpac’s annual financial result shows just how much the country’s second – biggest bank has benefited from the gains in revenue – and therefore market share – which all four of the majors have enjoyed in the wake of the global financial crisis.” No doubt shareholders will be happy with this most taxing banking stimulus!

That other stimulus paints an entirely new picture IMF praises handling of financial crisis when Peter Martin from the Sydney Morning Herald wrote “The International Monetary Fund has singled out Australia as one of the best managed economies, declaring that only Denmark, Korea, Norway, Australia and Sweden among advanced economies will require little or no medium – term adjustment to keep government debt at safe levels”. Now that may be fine however, Fort Fumble (Federal government) has some amazing housekeeping to balance both past and present where it will require some pretty amazing creative accountancy to balance its books. You can read Fort Fumble’s very own accountancy plan MYOB – (May You Obey Bureaucrats) here.

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Tim Mooney Photography captures Cammeray, Tunks Park and Northbridge Golf Course

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Still on creative accounting, the award would have to go to our very own Nathan Rees who presides over Fort Crumble. This week he approved a three per cent pay rise for all NSW MP’s making himself the highest paid in Australia after The Emperor – Kevin Rudd. Now before we jump to conclusions both are battling enormous budget deficits so that in itself highlights the pressure they currently find themselves in.

The Sunday Telegraph revealed “Nathan Rees’ master plan to convince NSW to give him one more term. “Nathan Rees needs cash – and plenty of it – to convince fed – up voters to give Labor one more chance. Linda Silimalis reported “Embattled NSW Premier Nathan Rees is pleading with Kevin Rudd to help fund a $10 billion – plus pre – election spending spree to save his government.” Reads more like a last rites request although many would agree that from a business growth analogy, NSW passed away a few years ago and remains the highest taxing state with the least to show in terms of infrastructure.

As we all know, everything requires a plan although it would appear that a few requiring that stimulus are looking rather sick after construction on a Fort Fumble rail project was shut down in Sydney due to a financial blow–out, allegedly caused by poor planning. Our very own Minister for Infrastructure and Transport, Anthony Albanese, said earlier this year, that this project to take freight trains off the Sydney passenger rail network would be completed by early 2010 (now on hold indefinitely). Note this is a Fort Fumble initiative as against another Fort Crumble ongoing malfunction.

For me, another great read of the week was the transcript from Stateline NSW – when Quentin Dempster quizzed Kevin Rudd and Nathan Rees – Discredited

Later in the week, The Daily Telegraph ran the story – Developer lobbies for Della Bosca (Bonka) to become premier. The country’s biggest property developer Harry Triguboff is privately lobbying Labor Party officials to support John Della Bosca’s bid to become NSW premier. You can draw your own conclusions on that although it is interesting to see a property developer interested in re-building Fort Crumble – (I will get to that shortly) as trigger – happy. Makes plenty of sense when the NSW government has next to no idea about building infrastructure. After all it is actually broke!

The Melbourne Cup rate increase (whilst widely tipped) had little effect on the punters and a record $95.600 million was bet on race day. The Emperor keeps telling us that we need his stimulus yet Australia is the only country raising its cash rate so who is actually punting?

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Macquarie Economics Research – How high will rates go? They lead the tipping competition on our interest rate predictions? “The similarity between the October and November statements suggests that the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) game plan remains unchanged. This means that the first stage of tightening will be out to get interest rates back towards a neutral level – which we think this is now 4 1/2 %“. That means another 100 basis point increases although it should be noted that the RBA has never before increased the cash rate three months in a row.

Robert Gottliebsen wrote on Business Spectato Rate rises may backfire “Tomorrow’s Melbourne Cup deliberations by the Reserve Bank board present issues far more complex than most commentators are canvassing.” Enter Harry Triguboff again backed by the Macquarie Bank graph (above). “The Reserve Bank, its hidden agenda is that it is deeply concerned that the recent sharp rise in dwelling prices and the bank fears that a new bout of housing affordability issues and an eventual price bubble is looming as Australia’s housing prices move outside world trends. The rising prices move outside world trends. The rising dwelling prices are pushing the central bank towards lifting interest rates more sharply, despite Treasury caution.”

“Then enter Harry Triguboff – the largest owner and builder of apartments in Sydney and a major force in Queensland.”

“Understandably many discount Triguboff’s conclusions because he clearly has an axe to grind. But over the years I have found that the base trends that Triguboff isolates are right nine times out of 10, but his remedies are uncomfortable. When Sydney was booming he said the city was dying, but then declared it would not die because eventually the politicians and local councils would start making sensible decisions. It’s taken eight years but they are now listening to him.”

“Triguboff points out that for the last five years the construction of Australian housing has been half the demand created by rising population, so a huge backlog has developed.”

“Triguboff now says: “If the Reserve Bank insists on raising interest rates in the hope of suppressing prices then they must understand that they will in turn suppress construction.”

“Banks are still very cautious and will insist on decent margins of profit, otherwise they will not advance loans to developers. I know that the Reserve Bank does not want to do it, but they have to make up their minds. Interest rates should not rise until building activity increase significantly. That is the true reasons for raising interest rates – stop oversupply. But all the evidence and rents and prices point to undersupply for the foreseeable future.”

“What Triguboff is highlighting is that the dramatic rises in Australia’s population complicate the interest rate argument. The Reserve Bank will not halt interest rates because of the Triguboff warning, but they need to understand that their current decision making process may create the opposite of what they expect in long – term dwelling prices.”

This should be a cornerstone point with the Ken Henry Review into Australia’s taxation report which is due on Christmas Eve.

On a lighter note – towel surfing was introduced to Australia last Friday when over 200 people on Bondi Beach joined in a synchronous dance to the music of local resident Ben Lee. I wonder when it will come to Balmoral Beach or possibly an open for inspection. (Turn up the volume).

Our property markets need to start dancing to the right tune – the RBA is obviously playing the wrong music as the dance floor is empty.

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