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The implications of a housing slowdown NAB recently reported their suggestions of how the current housing market downturn will affect our economy in general. Here's what they said: * We expect house prices to fall ~7% peak to trough, a sharp slowdown from the 9% growth over 2025. *Declines of that magnitude are not outside recent experience, but they do support our forecast for below trend GDP growth. * We expect weaker credit demand, especially for investors, tighter borrowing capacity, slower dwelling investment, and softer consumption. Estimates generally find a 10% fall in dwelling prices subtracts ~1ppts from consumption growth over a couple of years. * Elevated construction pipelines in QLD, WA and SA mean near-term completions will be insulated and construction activity may respond more slowly. *While conditions in the established market have softened, rental markets remain tight and homebuilding input costs are likely to support housing CPI this year. Cooler demand should help ease broader inflation in 2027. *For the RBA, below trend growth is necessary amid elevated inflation. Monetary policy will not be a circuit breaker for the housing cycle this year. *The shift in credit demand is still important. The RBA’s assessment of financial conditions has been sensitive to housing lending and housing dynamics both reflect and complement the RBA's somewhat restrictive policy setting.
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Steady But Still Generally Subdued Home Auction Week Dr Andrew Wilson reports.... Capital city auction markets have produced mixed results over the past week, but listings remain generally subdued. The national weekend auction market reported an average clearance rate of 51.8% over the past week, which was again marginally higher than the 50.3% reported over the previous week but again well below the 73.5% reported over the same week last year. Auction markets are meandering higher as spring approaches, although overall results remain underwhelming. The RBA decision to leave rates on hold over August, however, provided some relief for housing markets - for now. Sydney Auction Clearance Rate Higher   Sydney’s auction clearance rate was higher over the past week with listings again marginally higher – but still relatively recessed. Sydney recorded a clearance rate of 58.5% over the past week, which was higher than the 54.4% recorded over the previous week but again significantly lower than the strong 80.1% reported over the same week last year. Melbourne Clearance Rate Eases Melbourne reported a lower auction clearance rate over the past week, falling below 60% for the first time this month. Melbourne recorded a clearance rate of 59.2% over the past week, which was lower than the 64.2% recorded over the previous week and remained well below the 74.8% reported over the same week last year.
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Auction Markets Rising But Still Subdued Dr Andrew Wilson reports... Capital city auction markets have generally produced better results over the past week, although most markets continue to report subdued conditions. The national weekend auction market reported an average clearance rate of 50.3% over the past week, which was again higher than the 48.4% reported over the previous week but again well below the 72.9% reported over the same week last year. Auction markets continue to show early signs of a pre-spring selling revival typical of August - but from a low base, with all eyes now shifting to the RBA decision on interest rates this coming week. Sydney Auction Clearance Rate Lower Again   Sydney’s auction clearance rate was lower again over the past week with auction numbers a little higher. Sydney recorded a clearance rate of 54.4% over the past week, which was a little below the 55.2% recorded over the previous week but again significantly lower than the strong 77.6% reported over the same week last year. Auction numbers were slightly higher, with 520 homes reported as listed versus the 510 auctioned over the previous week, but again well below the 726 reported over the same week last year. Melbourne Clearance Rate Continues to Rise Melbourne again reported a higher auction clearance rate over the past week and now the highest reported since March. Melbourne recorded a clearance rate of 64.2% over the past week which was again higher than the 62.4% recorded over the previous week but remained well below the 75.2% reported over the same week last year.
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Why Everyone Says You’re Doing It Wrong Here’s the mindset shift most people never fully make, even though it changes everything once it clicks. If you do anything even slightly outside the norm, someone will tell you you’re doing it wrong. Not politely. Not tentatively. Confidently. They’ll tell you it won’t work. That it’s risky. That you’re not the right person. That your motives are questionable. That there’s a “better” or “smarter” way to do it. And if you’re honest with yourself, there’s usually a moment where you pause and think, What if they’re right? I’ve had that moment more times than I can count. But over time, I’ve realised something important: criticism isn’t proof you’re off track. It’s simply the price of choosing not to live on autopilot. People don’t evaluate your decisions on their own merits. They can’t. They only have one reference point - their own life. Everyone carries around an internal blueprint shaped by their experiences, beliefs, fears, incentives, and values. When they see you make a move - start a business, invest differently, change careers, live unconventionally - they overlay their blueprint onto your situation. And then they judge. If your choice doesn’t make sense within their framework, it gets labelled as wrong, reckless, greedy, naïve, or misguided. What they don’t see is the full context. They don’t see your long-term thinking. Your values. Your tolerance for risk. Your definition of success. Your personal incentives. The trade-offs you’re consciously making. They see a snapshot and assume they’ve seen the whole picture. I was reminded of this recently when launching something new. The response was overwhelmingly positive, but the critics were loud and certain. What struck me wasn’t that they disliked the idea - that’s normal. It was why they disliked it. They assumed the motivation. They filled in the blanks with a story that made sense to them. A financial play. A shortcut. A grab for something.
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Why You Should Stop Being “Realistic” About Your Goals Most people wait until they feel confident before they act. That’s usually a mistake. In fact, the people who achieve the most rarely wait for permission, proof, or perfect conditions. They move first. They believe first. And the confidence often comes after the action. There’s a name for this mindset, and once you understand it, you’ll start seeing it everywhere. It’s called irrational confidence. I came across the phrase "irrational confidence" when a sports psychologist who has spent decades coaching and studying peak performers used it. According to him, one trait shows up again and again among the best of the best and it was what he called “irrational confidence.” Now that’s a fascinating idea isn’t it? Logic on one side. Emotion on the other. Now what exactly is a “rational” amount of confidence anyway? Who gets to decide how much confidence is appropriate for you? So why not dial it all the way up to 11? If confidence fuels action, and action creates momentum, then it makes sense to grant yourself as much belief as you possibly can. After all, as Henry Ford famously said, whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right. I’ve long believed that if we genuinely thought we couldn’t fail, we’d behave very differently. We’d be bolder. We’d hesitate less.We’d stop overthinking every move. And history shows us again and again that fortune favours the bold. In my book, Rich Habits Poor Habits, I explained that people who believe they’re lucky don’t just sit around waiting for good things to happen. They put themselves in situations where luck has a chance to show up. They enter competitions. They buy the raffle ticket. They raise their hand. They take the risk. In other words, they create more opportunities for luck to find them. Irrational confidence works the same way. You see it in sport, from Mike Tyson to Michael Jordan. You see it in business, from Richard Branson to Elon Musk. Every major achievement you admire today began with someone believing in the outcome long before the evidence existed. Long before success wa
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The trap of more information. Today I'd like to share my thoughts with you about the trap of having more information. There’s a great line I read recently: “If more information was the answer, we’d all be billionaires with perfect abs.” Funny. But true. We live in an age of unlimited information. News updates. Market data. Podcasts. Social feeds. And every time we consume more, we get a little dopamine hit. It feels productive. But often, it’s just noise. Nassim Taleb explains this beautifully. He separates information into signal and noise. Signal is what actually matters. Noise is the random, short-term distraction. Here’s the trap - the more often you check the data, the more noise you get relative to signal. Long-term trends move slowly. Short-term noise moves constantly. So you think you’re becoming more informed… but you’re actually becoming more confused. You’ve seen it. The investor glued to daily headlines who never pulls the trigger. The business owner buried in metrics who avoids making a bold move. The person who consumes endless content but never implements anything. More input. Less impact. Now ask yourself this: What do I already know that I’m not acting on? Most of the fundamentals of wealth creation are simple. Think long term. Buy quality assets. Stay disciplined. Ignore short-term noise. You don’t need more information. You need more execution. The goal isn’t to know everything. It’s to know enough, and then act. Stop getting your dopamine from gathering information. Start getting it from progress.
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Pessimism Is a Wealth Tax – Are You Paying It? Let me share something interesting with you. Roughly 70% of the people you run into in life are pessimistic. Only about 30% are genuinely optimistic. Now think about that for a moment. If most people tend to expect things to go wrong, to focus on the risks, the obstacles, the “what if it doesn’t work”… then simply choosing to see opportunity instead of danger already puts you in the minority. And usually in wealth creation, being in the minority is exactly where you want to be. Optimism isn’t about being naive. It’s not about blind faith or pretending problems don’t exist. It’s about believing that the future can be better - and then behaving in a way that helps make it better. Optimists invest. Pessimists hesitate. Optimists take calculated risks. Pessimists wait for certainty - which never really arrives. Optimists see setbacks as temporary. Pessimists see them as proof they were right to be cautious. Research shows that optimists don’t just feel better about life. They earn more. They accumulate more wealth. They’re more willing to take smart risks. And over decades, that compounds. And that’s the real point. Wealth isn’t built in one bold move. It’s built through thousands of small decisions made over the years. Whether you invest now or later. Whether you upgrade your skills. Whether you back yourself. Whether you stay the course when markets wobble. Think about it….if you believe the future will reward effort, you behave differently today. On the other hand, pessimism quietly taxes your life. It shrinks your vision. It limits your ambition. It keeps you playing small. And over time, that caution costs you far more than the risks you avoided.
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