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Are rising rates and inflation cooling hot real estate in the region?

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Corinne Kerk

Published Wed, Jul 20, 2022 · 06:50 PM
    • Sydney housing prices have already begun to fall slightly in recent months as interest rates rise and borrowing capacity falls.
    • Sydney housing prices have already begun to fall slightly in recent months as interest rates rise and borrowing capacity falls. PHOTO: REUTERS

    WITH rising interest rates, inflationary pressures and much hand-wringing over the health of economies, some heat is coming off red-hot property markets, many of which have seen double digit price growths since the last quarter of 2019.

    The Business Times checks in with international real estate services company, JLL, for highlights on where residential capital values are headed in some of the frothiest - as well as perhaps more resilient - markets from the 17 cities its local research heads cover.

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