2016-12-01bloomberg.com

Apartment prices in Melbourne fell at the fastest pace in more than two years in November, reinforcing concerns about a looming oversupply of units in Australia's second-largest city.  The 3.2 percent month-on-month drop is the largest such decline since May 2014, according to figures from data provider CoreLogic Inc.

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Record low interest rates put in place by the Reserve Bank of Australia to help ease the economy's shift away from mining investment and combat low inflation have helped to spur a housing boom in the nation's biggest centers and the central bank has repeatedly voiced concern that apartment gluts are developing in central Melbourne and Brisbane.

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"There are emerging signs of stress" in the economy, the head of Australia's third-biggest bank told a Reuters event in Sydney.



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