There are very few stories now of people experiencing hardship from falls in property prices – though such stories do exist for a few unfortunates who have had to sell at a loss for one reason or another.
Instead, now there is a focus on improving numbers of people showing up at auctions and open homes, speculation about how quickly investors will return if there is a change in government and interest expense deductibility returns, and questions also about the stimulus which overseas buying might have.
I can in fact already see from my monthly surveys that investors are back in the market and that is one of the reasons I have been undertaking these gauges of market activity these past three or so years.