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The Morrison government has announced the New Home Guarantee will allow 10,000 first home buyers to purchase a new home with a deposit of just 5 per cent, while over the next four years the Family Home Guarantee will let 10,000 single parent families put down a deposit of only 2 per cent.

But can we bank upon the housing market with interest rates at uneasily low levels? What happens when they jump? To break this down is Professor Harry Schuele, Professor of Finance at the University of Technology, Sydney. An expert on the housing market, and a long time contributor to Think: Business.

Producer/presenter: Max Tillman

Aired 10th May 2021