Why won’t house prices go down?

Update: 2021-02-23

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Australian property prices have just hit a record high – despite predictions the market would crash during the pandemic. So what happened? What will it take for prices to go down?

Guest: National correspondent for The Saturday Paper Mike Seccombe.

Background reading:

Inequality and the housing bubble in The Saturday Paper.

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