Many people are wondering what effect the latest projected budget deficit for this year of $38 billion will have on house prices in Australia’s major cities and sceptical of my prediction that to-the-most-affordable/news-story/ab2ef05d05b0bdb4ae5f992b0335a8d6″>Brisbane house prices will double from $500k to $1 million in 10 years’ time.
Why is that?
In 1998 the Federal Government were enjoying the bottom of Keating’s predicted “J” curve with interest rates almost as low as today. Housing prices had also been stagnant for several years. As confidence in the economy and predicted increase in house prices would push up the CPI and hence inflation, the government just took the cost of paying a home mortgage out of the index.
This provides an artificially low rate of inflation.
At that time they also removed the land costs for owner-occupiers. In 1998 the land cost was approximately 33% of the total cost of a home, but it is now about 50%.
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I am predicting that in 10 years’ time the real value of the A$ will have halved. The government does not have the money to pay for services, so they overdraw their account with the reserve bank by $38 billion this year. To fund this they just print more money, which dilutes the value of your money.
This explains why most things now cost twice as much as they did 10 years ago.
Steve Taylor
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