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I prefer calculations using interest only loans. I fail to see what repayments have to do with the topic at hand. Is there a divinely ordained repayment period when buying a house? I didn't think so. As for your last paragraph, it may well be that with the end of the mining capex boom, the...

Again you are asking the wrong question. Instead the question should be, can prices affordable double again if interest rates are cut in half, to levels that have been experienced by most of the rest of the developed world for the last five years? The answer to that question is undoubtedly...

Thanks for posting that Keith - a very interesting graph. While this is true, the RBA has much more to worry about than house prices. They consistently try to talk them down but what is always notable in those statements is their lack of action in actually using the IR lever. My guess is...

Hobo - you seem to love posting charts of house price to income and gearing from the early 1990s until now. Care to post a chart of retail interest rates from 1990 to now instead? That might help explain a few things... perhaps it will help divert discussion away from less these relevant...