The dashboard for the country’s housing and property market lit up in red (again) over the last week. On Sunday, auction clearance rates were below 50 per cent for the seventh straight week.
Commonwealth Bank chief executive Matt Comyn revealed mortgage arrears were at their highest levels in more than a decade this week. Then came data that new mortgage issuances recorded their largest quarterly fall since the Australian Bureau of Statistics started counting 24 years ago .
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