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Australian house prices fell for a sixth straight month in September. Experts say the property market is likely to continue experiencing falls perhaps up to 15 per cent in the coming months off the back of higher interest rates and cuts to property tax breaks.

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00:03As house prices fall, these first home buyers seize their chance, snapping up this home
00:11in Adelaide.
00:12We've come into it at an interesting time.
00:15Nationally, prices fell for a six straight month in September, down 1.1 per cent and
00:21are now flat over the year.
00:23The median home value is now just under $900,000.
00:27The government plans to build 1.2 million new homes by 2030, but is behind and builder
00:35lobbies wanted to reverse its budget changes to lower property tax breaks.
00:40They've doubled down and actually created a deflation in demand.
00:47With more rate rises tipped over the coming months, this developer expects the worst.
00:53If 10, 15 per cent reduction we have in the value of the homes, number of the bankruptcy
01:01that we have witnessed in the last 12 months, that increases rapidly and will damage the
01:07industry more.
01:10This economist says there is a risk prices could fall even more.
01:14This is already shaping up as the biggest downturn in property prices that we've seen in the
01:20last 40 years.
01:21The Reserve Bank has estimated that less than 1 per cent of borrowers are in negative equity,
01:27where they own more on their loan than the market value of their home.
01:32But it says because of the run up in property prices ahead of the downturn, even a 20 per cent
01:38plunge would only see about 5 per cent of borrowers in negative equity.
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