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The Related Cos. founder is following the money flowing south by bringing his influence to everything from real estate to schools and health care.
Initial data on US gross domestic product for the first quarter of 2024 is set to confirm an ongoing economic boom amid a tailwind from surging immigration.
A South Florida office skyscraper from Related Cos. landed new finance tenants, including a John Paulson business and a private equity firm that counts Mark Bezos as a founding partner.
Oracle Corp. is moving its headquarters out of the city. Tesla Inc. is pulling back after a rapid expansion. Almost a quarter of commercial office space is vacant, and nowhere in the country have residential real estate prices fallen further from their pandemic peak.
Mortgage rates in the US increased for a fourth straight week.
Oct 14, 2021
Bloomberg News
,(Bloomberg) -- Australian home prices will surge 22% this year, economists at Westpac Banking Corp. said, upgrading their forecast from a previous 18% and warning it could force regulators to try to further rein in credit growth.
Prices across major cities are up 17% over the year to September and are on track to jump 1.5% this month, Westpac said in a research note Thursday. That’s even as the country’s two largest cities are only just beginning to ease lockdown restrictions and following macroprudential curbs on lending.
“We expect reopening boosts to more than offset any initial drags from recently announced macro-prudential measures,” Westpac’s Bill Evans and Matthew Hassan said. “This strong momentum will carry into 2022. However, the pace of gains is expected to slow, leveling out over the course of next year before moving into a correction phase in 2023.”
Australian home prices have been on an upswing, jumping more than 10 times the pace of wages and raising concerns about household debt and financial stability risks. That said, the country’s regulators have generally sounded comfortable about lending standards.
Westpac expects “incremental” tightening in macroprudential policy from early next year as Australia’s banking regulator tries to curb credit growth. It also predicts a first increase in the benchmark interest rate in early 2023, about a year before the Reserve Bank’s own expectation.
“As we move into 2023, the impact of the RBA’s tightening cycle will weigh more heavily on housing markets as borrowing capacity is impacted directly and as sentiment turns,” Evans and Hassan said.
That is expected to see the housing market move into a correction with prices retracing 5% in 2023, a rare outcome for Australia’s housing market, they said.
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