Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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So we've gotten rid of the Monday morning blues, the 27th day for September for 2022. And coming up, we are talking to Commonwealth Bank Chief Economist Stephen Halmaric about the rate rises. It's an interview that we did a few months back.
which we thought was relevant to replay given the fact that we are heading towards the end of the month, just three more days after today, which means the 1st of October is going to be here on Saturday morning.
Anna Porter about valuations which is a pivotal piece of your due diligence that you can't cheat on and more than ever the valuation is so critical, it is so important and we also spoke to Anna a few months back but the information if you missed it first time round is just so important and so relevant.
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I'm wondering, has there been more of a busier time right now for economists around Australia jostling for position with trying to predict an unpredictable world in the middle of what is probably a volatile set of circumstances?
Well, I've been a financial market economist for 36 years, so I've seen a few cycles over the years, and there's definitely been some times where it's been much busier than others, and this is certainly one of them. The big fixed rate home loan expiry schedule is for next year.
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Chapter 2: What insights does Stephen Halmarick share about current rate rises?
If next month is another 50 basis points, even with people ahead of their repayments, not all are in that situation. It's going to get pretty tricky to balance the household budgets, right? Yeah, that's exactly right.
So there'll be a large number of Australians with a mortgage who will now have to be increasing their monthly repayments to service their home loan, either now or in the months ahead as interest rates continue to rise further.
And as I mentioned, if you're spending more money servicing your mortgage, then you've got less money on everything else, particularly in an environment where real wages growth is negative. That is, inflation is higher than wages growth. And the RBA is expecting inflation to peak at around 7% later this year.
It's probably a pretty brave person that's going to predict inflation to stop at 7%, do you think? Well, the thing with inflation, it means ongoing price rises. So if prices go up and then they stop rising, that's no longer inflation. But we've seen a lot of volatility in some of the key commodity markets, particularly oil, of course. with the price of petrol.
We've seen disruptions to the global supply chain network as China is running this zero COVID policy and shutting down very large cities like Shanghai. So lots of things that are outside the control of the Reserve Bank, which means the inflation number, as you said, is very difficult to forecast at this point in time.
The worry is that those households who don't have reserves and those rate hikes just keep going, particularly if they're at the 50 mark. I mean, that's just got the potential to just push them over the cliff. Oh, yes, there certainly will be some households that are going to find these higher interest rates very difficult to manage.
In terms of raising interest rates, the Reserve Bank wants to get demand down, and that's one of the ways that they can do it through, unfortunately, putting some extra pressure on household balance sheets or household budgets. So it's going to be important for those people in that particular situation to manage their budgets very carefully. The good news is the labour market's very strong.
The unemployment rate is the lowest it's been since 1974, and we do expect the labour market to remain relatively strong. So there are some positive offsets, but no doubt some households in Australia are going to find these higher interest rates very challenging. We talk with leading property commentators with analysis, predictions, forecasts and what's trending every morning from 6.30.
And one of the core things that you do as a business is valuations. What, if anything, Anna, should people be paying closer attention to with the current market that we're living in around property values? We're certainly starting to see a fair disparity forming between properties that are renovated and ones that are not renovated in terms of value.
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