Episode Details

Every week, Chris Bates and Pete Wargent jump on the Australian Property Podcast airwaves to answer your questions or cover the top 3 property news stories of the week. Don't forget to send Chris and Pete your questions!

In this week’s episode, Chris and Pete cover: 

1 – Election battleground on immigration

2 – Barefoot’s advice to leverage 

3 – RBA speech on the dwelling shortage 

Episode resources 

1 – Immigration battleground

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/may/19/duttons-plan-to-cut-immigration-would-cost-australias-economy-billions-treasurer-says

https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/dutton-s-migrant-crackdown-treats-economy-with-disdain-20240518-p5jeq5

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/may/16/peter-dutton-promises-to-slash-permanent-migration-by-25-in-short-term-in-populist-budget-reply

2 – Barefoot’s advice to the heavily leveraged  

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/panic-early-barefoot-investors-advice-to-heavily-mortgaged/news-story/606f77ea65198fc3955fab018ff313da

https://www.westpac.com.au/docs/pdf/aw/economics-research/WestpacWeekly.pdf

3 – RBA speech on the dwelling shortage

https://www.rba.gov.au/speeches/2024/sp-ag-2024-05-16.html

https://petewargent.blogspot.com/2024/05/rba-on-burgeoning-dwelling-shortage.html

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