Sydney house prices up 150% after Chinese nuclear strike hits CBD

Property prices in Sydney have exploded to all-time highs after China launched a nuclear first strike on the east coast EZFKA city.

After both countries traded firey rhetoric all week, China finally called Australia’s bluff and launched a first strike against Australia’s most populous city. Minutes after the ICBM impacted downtown Sydney, Domain recorded a 150% increase in property prices across the board.

“It’s hot property! Get in quick now before you miss out. They aren’t making anymore land, they’re just levelling existing land and giving us more opportunities to rebuild,” Corelogic CEO Tim Lawless said.

Meriton CEO Harry Trigaboff also lauded this as a “great opportunity to build back better with plans for more shitty high-rise apartments across the now smoking crater where the Sydney CBD used to be.”

Public concerns from survivors about radiation have been allayed by the NSW state government, which has stated it plans to raise a ‘radiation tax’ which will be implemented for the half-life of at least 5000 years to bring the state back into the black.

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https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2021/06/australia-has-a-devastating-secret-weapon-against-china/

Wut???
Didn’t you read?
When Chinese bomb us we’ll be just lowering the AUD to 50 cents and we’ll be subduing China into big nuttin!

Agent 47

That iron ore crash is right around the corner too.

The90kwbeast

Remember the Pascometer days, whereby everything Pascoe said, there was this glib suggestion to use it as contrarian advice? DLS has now in fact become the thing he hated. If you want to make money do the opposite of what the bloke says.

JL2012

This very thing has got me somewhat concerned about buying a house right now.

Freddy

What I don’t get is MB correctly predicted Australian bond prices would rise but couldn’t join the dots to falling interest rates and rising house prices.

Peachy

They are living in the last century.

According to the history books, last century things worked this way:

  • bond prices rise when interest rates fall
  • interest rates fall ahead of or in response to a recession/other economic trouble
  • because there is a recession/other economic trouble brewing, asset prices (e.g. shares, land) fall.

This had people believing that bond and share prices move in opposite directions. …Enough people believed it to actually make it so a lot of the time. (It’s like the technical analysis/charting voodoo – self fulfilling, to a degree)

But This old fashioned belief hasn’t been the case for a long time.

Now when interest rates fall, the discount rate falls and share and land prices rise. And bond prices rise. Indeed, that is why interest rates fall.

You have to be a particularly obstinate type of mule not to understand this, even after it’s been happening day in, day out for years and years.

Obstinate mules like that invented useless shit like “pushing on a string” to try to explain their delusions…

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Freddy

“pushing on a string”

and

“zero sum game”

Lower interest rates would be a zero sum game because banks would have to pay the RBA to hold their reserves…

because the banks would never entertain the possibility of passing those costs onto consumers.

bjw678

And the RBA would never simply “absorb” those costs through some mechanism. It’s not hard when you can print as much as you want.

A fly in your ointment

Yeah but now it serves the purpose of kneeling on the Chinese CCP throat.
IO to the moon because what we don’t sell to Chinese we will sell to someone else, as if that meant that China will suffer in this near zero sum game.

Ramjet

Earlier this week they were saying the Iron Ore crash will crash house prices. Now they are saying we have a secret weapon being a floating dollar. Wouldn’t a lower dollar be more attractive for foreigners to buy up houses?

I guess I don’t have to worry too hard. This impending doom is always 18 months away.

A fly in your ointment

turvilleMEMBER
June 4, 2021 at 8:07 am
Hardly think 1 cent fall in the Oz $ is a “smashed “event

I started doubting D, L and S’ stuff with “au$ smashed” in the title when as I saw it was leading and mostly reaction to daily floating.

Chinese Astroturfer

Everyday he overreacts to normal market gyrations.

bjw678

gotta make that clickbait titled content…

Ramjet

Articles, click bait and pictures make MB increasingly look like the Herald Sun. Like this article:
https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2021/06/victorian-teachers-need-to-harden-up/

Peachy

“Harden up” he says, working from home.

I thought it would be a Davo byline, but no, it’s Leitho.

Ramjet

I know it is satire, but wouldn’t at all be surprised if Harry Triguboff survived a nuclear bomb whilst most other people don’t.

The90kwbeast

Meriton underground bomb shelter range probably all also built cheaply by immigrant labor and full of defects so unsure on that!

Ramjet

The cheaply built ones are for the masses. Harry will have a top of the line bunker imported from Israel or the US.

bjw678

Damn straight, he only builds stuff for the plebs.
Next you’ll be trying to tell me Gerry Harvey’s house is full of the shite Harvey Norman sells…