Why the horror warnings about Australia’s ‘collapsing’ housing market are absurd – and very much in bad faith | Greg Jericho

Why the horror warnings about Australia’s ‘collapsing’ housing market are absurd – and very much in bad faith | Greg Jericho

Greg Jericho argues that recent dire forecasts for Australia’s housing market are exaggerated. He notes that even if prices dropped 10% from the March 2026 peak, as the Commonwealth Bank projected, they would merely revert to levels seen at the end of 2024. The piece contends that such warnings lack substantive evidence and serve a bad‑faith narrative.