{"id":863053,"date":"2026-08-21T09:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T09:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/863053\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T09:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T09:52:09","slug":"factcheck-no-tim-wilson-first-home-buyers-have-not-dropped-by-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/863053\/","title":{"rendered":"Factcheck: No, Tim Wilson. First home-buyers have not dropped by 6%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During yesterday\u2019s question time, Liberal MP Tim Wilson asked about the number of first-home buyers. Specifically, he wanted to know why the number of first-home buyers dropped \u201cmore than 6% this calendar year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This, however, was a very weird question, because he was comparing the June 2026 quarter to the December 2025 quarter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That is like comparing apples and oranges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The December 2025 quarter saw a spike in first-home buyers because it was the quarter the government announced their 5% deposit guarantee, so of course it was going to be abnormally high.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But here\u2019s the thing, in the year to June 2026, the number of first-home buyers is 3.7% higher than\u00a0in the year to June 2025 last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And if Wilson wants more first-home buyers, then surely, he would want house prices to be falling\u2026 but then oddly the LNP also seems to be against that.<\/p>\n<p>Verdict: The number of first-home buyers have not dropped by 6%<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During yesterday\u2019s question time, Liberal MP Tim Wilson asked about the number of first-home buyers. Specifically, he wanted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":863054,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,164],"class_list":["post-863053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=863053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/863054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=863053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=863053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=863053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}