With a small but growing percentage of homeowners owing banks sums greater than the value of their homes, what are the looming risks to the economy?
The Reserve Bank will be watching the summer auction season closely for any glimpse of the the housing market's changing fortunes.
Contrary to the clickbait peddlers, there's no property crash. If anything, our financial sector, and the surrounding economy, have become more resilient in recent years.
For all the right's railing about community values, they sure do make it hard to live in a community.
The question isn't if we can do it. The question is whether we can do it fast enough.
Australia's inflation rate is way below the RBA's target band. Is another cash rate cut on the cards?
Housing prices aren't just wildly overinflated, they are off-the-charts bananas.
The Tasmanian budget will be delivered today. Although it might have some good news in the short term, in the long term the Apple Isle's prospects don't look good.
Australia needs to plan for the crunch that is coming, and we need to re-evaluate everything. But by all means, keep chanting inanely for "Reform".
There's no economic crisis, despite what the doomsters insist. Instead, we have a series of eminently soluble problems, Bernard Keane and Glenn Dyer write.