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The risks in Australia's housing market shouldn't be downplayed

  • Written by Harry Scheule, Associate Professor, Finance, UTS Business School, University of Technology Sydney

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) sees housing finance as a smaller danger than in the past, judging by its latest Financial Stability Review, but we aren’t back to happy days just yet. A number of economic indicators still show there’s cause for concern in the property market.

The review does acknowledge some problems in the...

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