Australian Property Market
The Australian property market has shown steady increases of around 3% per annum since the 1970s. Since the 1990s however, prices have risen by around 6% per annum.
In the late 2000s, housing prices in Australia, relative to average incomes, were among the highest in the world, prompting speculation that the country was experiencing a real estate bubble, like many other countries.
Read more about this topic: Australian Property Bubble
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