Asti Mardiasmo
speaker
215 appearances
6 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2022
last heard 3 Apr
Asti Mardiasmo’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Good morning.
The Sunshine Coast, like you have said, have transformed itself.
It's no longer just tourism.
We now have so many different businesses that have set up shop in the Sunshine Coast and big banks, big businesses as well.
And of course, we can't forget that Sunshine Coast is one of the homes of the Brisbane 2032 Olympics and Paralympics Athletes Village.
Of course, there's more investment into upgrading the infrastructure, the roads, you know, there's more oomph in the Sunshine Coast more than ever before.
It definitely tells us that we are in a better position than a lot of other countries and that we are having that more solid foundation.
And that basically comes off from the fact that we had three cash rate cuts in 2025, which meant that during that time, we actually had an increase of people putting more money into their mortgage offsets.
Because obviously, you know, we have households being able to save a little bit more on their home loan repayments.
What many households have done is that they have put it into their mortgage offset.
And so that does create a bit of a buffer for any other interest rate hikes that might happen this year.
And that's why right now we're seeing, like you've just said, under 1.5% of home loans are in any rears risk.
And whether it's 30 days or 90 days, the property market has been going strong for the past, you know, since post-COVID.
And that is why less than 1% of Australian households are in negative equity.
When you combine all of that together, it does give us a more solid foundation for what's about to happen for the rest of 2026.
We're definitely seeing a dip in the consumer confidence reading.
So the last reading that we had for March was at 91.6 index points.
And that's one of the lower ones that we've seen in the past six months.
So we definitely can see that there is a bit of fear starting to come into the market.
People are becoming more cautious in terms of their spending and they're preferring to save.
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