{"id":189416,"date":"2025-10-10T02:05:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T02:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/189416\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T02:05:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T02:05:09","slug":"rba-warns-investor-activity-could-knock-housing-market-off-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/189416\/","title":{"rendered":"RBA warns investor activity could knock housing market off course"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cWe\u2019re in a position where we think the labour markets may be still a little bit tight,\u201d she said. \u201cIf we get a strong pickup in growth \u2026 there might be some upside risk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">At the same time, she noted that a sustained surge in household spending was not guaranteed. \u201cIt\u2019s also possible, though, that what we saw in the June quarter with respect to (the uptick in) consumption isn\u2019t maintained.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Energy rebates and inflation dynamics<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Bullock pointed to temporary government energy rebates as a factor that will distort the inflation path over the coming months.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThe Commonwealth (rebates) have been extended until the end of the year, so that will continue to subtract about a point two from inflation. Then when they come off, that will get given back,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">For lenders and mortgage market analysts, her comments signal a period of potential volatility in headline inflation readings, complicating efforts to predict the timing of further policy adjustments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWe\u2019re in a position where we think the labour markets may be still a little bit tight,\u201d she&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[84,15187,83247,467,9918,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-189416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-markets","tag-business","tag-housing-market","tag-investor-activity","tag-markets","tag-rba","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}