When you read articles about Australian housing affordability, it is often comparing the single average adult wage to house prices, from generations ago.
The articles generally say something like, ‘a house was worth three times the annual average wage back in the sixties and is now worth 10 times the average wage. This shows housing has become unaffordable.’
You can’t compare the two because back in the sixties it was one wage bidding on real estate.
Dear Reader, Your first drink is always good. The second is usually very good. I feel the same way about Melbourne skyscrapers. They tell me that the ‘big property collapse’ everyone fears isn’t going to happen. Why do you care? You have a massive opportunity to ‘buy the dip’ in Australian property over the next […]
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At time of writing, the share price of Resimac Group Ltd [ASX:RMC] is up 15.6%, trading at $1.89. The RMC share price chart is in a relatively steady uptrend as you can see below: Source: tradingview.com Is Resimac defying the odds? Is the housing market doomed? We dig into the latest trading update out of […]
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