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How will coronavirus affect property prices?

  • Written by Nigel Stapledon, Research Fellow in Real Estate, Centre for Applied Economic Research, UNSW
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It’s one of the most Googled questions since the coronavirus and COVID-19 outbreak: how will coronavirus affect house prices?

The bottom line is it will be negative - prices will go down. People, up until now, have been talking about the property market developing a bit of momentum, with the interest cuts we had last year and the...

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