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RBA Warns of High House Prices

Australia’s central bank has admitted that booming house prices are worsening the inequality gap.Before a parliamentary committee’s inquiry on housing affordability on Monday, the RBA confessed that low income Australians would be forcibly pushed into poverty if buying a property becomes increasingly unaffordable.The comments made by RBA assistant governor Luci …

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ECB’s Schnabel: Central banks must pay attention to house prices

Isabel Schnabel said that house prices need more attention from financial stability and price stability viewpoint. Schnabel indicated that owner-occupied housing would have contributed between 0.4 and 0.5 pp to data released by the Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices (HICP).The member of ECB’s executive board also insisted that monetary policy …

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UK Home Sales Fell More Than 60% in July

Home sales in Britain during the month of July decreased by about 63%, after reducing a tax exemption aimed at encouraging home purchases during the Coronavirus crisis. The British Tax Office said Tuesday, August 24, that the number of homes sold in July, after adjusting for seasonal factors, was 73,740, …

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U.S. House Prices Rise in Q1 – FHFA

House prices in the United States rose by 12.6% in the first quarter (Q1) of 2021, compared with the Q1 of 2020, data showed on Tuesday. The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) House Price Index (HPI) rose by 3.5% compared to Q4 of 2020. Meanwhile, FHFA’s seasonally adjusted monthly index …

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