by Boo_Randy
Gen-Z, most of you don’t have a hope in hell of ever owning your own house free and clear as long as the gold collar criminals at the central banks and their private equity accomplices like BlackRock continue to turn housing into a speculative asset bubble with their gushers of printing press “money.”
www.macrobusiness.com.au/2022/09/aussie-housing-affordability-plummets/
The Real Estate Institute of Australia (REIA) has released its June quarter housing affordability report for first home buyers and renters, which shows that affordability has plummeted for both cohorts.
At the national level, the proportion of income required to meet average loan repayments rose to 38.4% in the June quarter, an increase of 4.7% over the past year. This was due to a combination of rising mortgage rates and higher average loans, with loan repayments rising $621 per month over the year.
It is important to note that this affordability data is only current to June, and therefore does not capture the three consecutive 0.5% rate hikes in July, August and September. The cumulative 2.25% of interest rate hikes over the past five months has already lifted average mortgage repayments by 30% versus their level in April immediately prior to the first rate hike: