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In today's episode of As the Market Turns, economists have once again donned their reading glasses and panic spreadsheets to announce: “maybe things are cooling down, but also maybe not.” Australia’s housing market continues its hobby of defying logic and ruining lives, as experts debate whether price drops are real or just a hallucination caused by mortgage stress and low iron.

Sellers are clutching their million-dollar terraces like family heirlooms, while buyers circle like vultures with pre-approvals that no longer buy anything within 30km of a train station. Regional areas, once the great escape, now have price tags that scream “LOL, stay in Sydney.” Meanwhile, real estate agents are giving TED Talks on “renovator’s dreams” that look like haunted sheds.

The RBA’s rate pause hasn’t brought the promised relief, and the market’s in a weird holding pattern where nothing sells, but everything’s still overpriced. In other words, classic Aussie housing: all hype, no mercy. Sources: Domain, CoreLogic, The Guardian Australia – 23 Apr 2025