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Interesting topic. Here is my 2c, mainly from marco point of view.
Take US's experience as example there is both for and against argument for Aust Prop market to follow suit. So just lets present then as such. The recent RBA's half yearly Financial Stability Review and this week's IMF Economic Outlook are of great insight.
For
* domestic interest rate is a major issue. However recent weeks it has shown signs of peaking and most recent data show consumer confidence weakness and potential room for cut next year. However needs confirmation from next 2 qtrs inflation data.
* affordability is an issue. However as RBA pointed out not as severe as media wants to make out. (more meaningful stress test is % of bottom 40% of household who spend more than 30% of income on housing. Now media is more inclinded to quote total % of household who spend over 30%)
* internationally aus property are more expensive in OECD countries except for a handful of countries like Ireland, Spain and UK (which are experience correction ATM).
* on top of home lending, I believe more of concern are the personal lending quality is rather low compared to historical standards (credit card and margin lending, etc)
* share market correction and now in range bound
Against
* Aust's home lending practice is no where near as lax as US in the last few years. Reasons:
- banks were/are still main source of home loan lending
- limited RMBS market in Aust compared with US, ie securitisation is not as extensive
- Aust banks weres still quite conservative compared with US
* Aust economy is still strong to the extent that China's economy will hold up
* Employment is strong and very tight labour market (very important for property)
* Australia's mortgage lending is full recourse rather than limited recourse in US. In US, once you handed in your keys, you can say goodbye to your bank.
* Very big inventory overhang in US however in Australia there is a chronicle housing shortage.
* US's housing market run hard in much shorter space than Aust. The more you run in short space of time, more severe the correction will be. From peak to now, US housing dropped around 15% (Schiller index) and around 2/3 in the last 12 months. Australia's boom market started from mid 1990's and peak at around 2003. Especially in NSW market, there wasn't much growth since 03/04. Therefore arguably Aust property owners have more equity than their US counter parts.
* Australia's banking sector is in much better shape than US. Although bank now started to book more provision to their B/S, it only bring the % back to more normalised historical mean. With the non-bank lenders all but disappeared, banks are re-claiming their market share quickly. Fortunately despite the media bank bashing, banks can provide the credit to home borrowers when they need it. If the banks are in trouble and started rationing credit, the property market would be in severe problem.
* RBA's figures showed very subdued delinquency rate in mortgage sector - with exception to western sydney. It is evidenced by strong employment.
* Austalia's sumprime loan only makes up about 1% of total whilst US's subprime is around 13%. Worse still, US's delinquency issue now spead into prime loan. As IMF latest estimate, the subprime cost may top $1 trillion.
* also remember if Aust economy is in trouble, RBA is of the luxury of cutting interest from 7.25% while US is sitting at meagre 2.25%. Feds will be now out trick pretty soon.
All in all, from the current situation (albeit China is ok), Australia's property look expensive and most likely to experience weakness in the following years. However I am struggling to see any tanking effect as from US. It is rather peculiar to read the recent news article saying Sydney's inner city will drop 30% in the next two year. Puzzling to the least.
However there is some very interesing observation from RBA's recent study. In the last 20+ years, inner city property in average outperform fringe suburbs by 2%p.a. and properties close to water outpeform non-water suburbs by another 1.5%. You do the math, it is a pretty healthy margin.
[ 本帖最后由 philgu 于 2008-4-11 15:31 编辑 ] |
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