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RBA pouring fuel on the property boom

Matthew Cranston

The Reserve Bank’s decision to end a special cheap funding facility for banks is effectively creating a rush to lend, fuelling Australia’s property boom.

Australia’s banks are eligible to access around $190 billion of cheap three-year funding from the RBA’s Term Funding Facility, but they must access it all by the end of June.

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Matthew Cranston was The Australian Financial Review’s United States correspondent.

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