Louis Christopher

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414 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 25 Aug

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The Money Puzzle · Why residential rental income is about to move higher (again) · 14 Apr 2026 podcast

But there's still a chance for Melbourne it could still come in relatively steady at, say, minus 1%.

But these are the two cities that we have greater concerns about compared to other capital cities around the country right now.

Interest rates, in short.

And those concerns actually started mounting before the Iranian war broke out, but they've certainly become more aggrieved since the war has broken out for obvious reasons.

So our original forecast, which we released last year,

assumed that there would not be an interest rate rise in 2026.

The outlook at the time was that potentially, if anything, we might see a cut.

That was the talk.

It seems a long time ago.

But things started changing just before Christmas time, if you recall.

We started to get higher monthly rates on the CPI.

And so a rate rise did occur, of course, in February.

So regardless of the war, we were on the path of making a note to the market, our clients, that, hey, we need to revise our forecast here.

And so we did that at the beginning of March.

And so as you may recall, and your listeners may recall, we put out various scenarios when we do this.

You put out the kind of

Good, bad and ugly scenarios.

We like to put out the top four, what we think are the most likely scenarios out there.

And so, yeah, like last year for 26, we didn't think rates were going to go up.

It wasn't in our top four models, but...

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