Bollard gives a bit but signals warning on house prices
Reserve Bank governor Alan Bollard chose the conservative route in cutting the official cash rate (OCR) from 5.25% to 5% today, ignoring pleas for a larger cut...
Monday, July 28th 2003, 3:08AM
by The Landlord
In particular, Bollard notes that housing inflation is already "quite strong" and that "some investors have unrealistic expectations about this."
Stephen Toplis at Bank of New Zealand says annual housing inflation at 14.1%, as was shown in the Real Estate Institute’s latest report, "is clearly outside the Reserve Bank’s comfort zone. The apparent beginnings, I would stress beginnings, of a bubble in the housing sector would bother the bank."
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