{"id":603367,"date":"2026-09-02T06:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T06:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/603367\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T06:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T06:16:10","slug":"treasurer-jim-chalmers-defends-treasury-budget-forecasts-on-house-prices-and-investor-tax-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/603367\/","title":{"rendered":"Treasurer Jim Chalmers defends Treasury budget forecasts on house prices and investor tax changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Treasurer Jim Chalmers has defended Treasury\u2019s budget forecast that investor tax changes would shave only 2 per cent off house prices over two years and increase rents slightly, as economists and the opposition call for the department\u2019s housing modelling to be released.<\/p>\n<p>National home values <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/property\/residential\/slump-in-housing-prices-now-entrenched-across-nation-s-capitals-20260831-p60sxs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fell for a fifth straight month in August<\/a> and average prices are now 3.6 per cent below their peak, with larger price falls (7.1 per cent) in Sydney.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Treasurer Jim Chalmers has defended Treasury\u2019s budget forecast that investor tax changes would shave only 2 per cent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":603368,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[114,184,85,46],"class_list":["post-603367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}