Recent data from property analytics firm Cotality reveals that upper-quartile house prices — those in the top 25 per cent — have fallen at more than double the rate of entry-level ones in Sydney and Melbourne.

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    Cotality executive research director Tim Lawless told SBS News that the top end of the housing market historically moves first in a property cycle.

    Here’s hoping the rest of the market follows.

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        It’s currently around 6.9%. With mortgages around $800k, that’s over $1k per week interest (not paying any of the principal off). It’s already insane.

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          The battlecry of Australia’s different and property only goes up, might cause a lot of hurt. Frustratingly for a lot of people that do not deserve it. This should have been reigned in a decade ago.

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    FOMO foolishness will bite the latecomers and Portfolio Princes hard if it’s investment driven, otherwise Keep Calm and Carry On?