Sydney 18% Property Loss
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What are the current trends in the Sydney property market?
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How much are Sydney property prices expected to fall?
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What factors are contributing to the decline in property values?
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Thanks for having me here, Craig. We know the property market in Sydney has been slowing down this year. You tie that to the inflation number of 6.1% and the uncertainty around the mortgage interest rates going up.
Which suburbs in Sydney are experiencing the largest price drops?
People on one hand might say, look, I'm not surprised to see that we're going to have that downturn in the market. But on the other hand, you're going to have people that are going to absolutely hate seeing the number in reality on their properties. But it is the year, it would seem, of the price correction. I think that's right. Craig. I mean, if we look historically at the Australian property market and the Sydney property market, we tend not to see large price falls. But realistically, if that was ever going to be a situation where we did see quite large price falls, it would be now. And that's because interest rates have been falling for 11 years. We've just had the lowest interest rates we've ever seen.
And we also had the Reserve Bank saying to people that they didn't expect interest rates to rise until 2024. We didn't even make it to the middle of 2022 and we started to get interest rates rising.
What impact will rising interest rates have on property prices?
The Sydney housing market was slowing before these rate hikes. We've already seen over the year to date that property prices in Sydney are down 1.1%. They're down 1.5% from their peak. And we think with higher interest rates, likely that the falls in them, market are going to accelerate from here. And it comes as real estate agents report properties in some suburbs around Sydney are already selling for anywhere between 10% and 20% less than what they would have sold a year ago.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What are the current trends in the Sydney property market?
0:02–1:20
2
How much are Sydney property prices expected to fall?
1:20–2:07
3
What factors are contributing to the decline in property values?
2:07–3:16
4
Which suburbs in Sydney are experiencing the largest price drops?
3:16–4:07
5
What impact will rising interest rates have on property prices?
4:07–5:22
6
How are first home buyers affected by the current market conditions?
5:22–6:29
7
What government incentives are available for first home buyers?
6:29–7:38
8
What is the forecast for the Sydney property market moving forward?
7:38–12:10
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