About this episode

Kieran O’Brien and Peter O’Malley discuss the implications of the RBA rate hike and the New South Wales Fair Trading name and shame register on the Sydney real estate market.

This week on Current Market Insights, Kieran O’Brien and Peter O’Malley unpack the key points from Peter’s latest monthly newsletter and what they mean on the ground in Sydney real estate. They cover why the market is likely to brush off the latest rate hike, and why the bigger story is what happens next if the RBA goes again. They also dig into the New South Wales Fair Trading name and shame register and what it is designed to do, especially around underquoting. Plus the rental market outl...

People in this episode

Host: Kieran O’Brien

Guest: Peter O’Malley

Topics covered

• RBA rate hike
• Sydney real estate
• New South Wales Fair Trading
• rental market
• underquoting

Keywords

• RBA
• rate hike
• Sydney rents
• New South Wales
• real estate
• underquoting
• rental market

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: RBA, New South Wales Fair Trading

Places: Sydney, New South Wales

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