Australia’s Treasury Says Sydney Is 'Unequivocally' in a Housing Bubble

Sydney is in the grip of a housing bubble, Australia’s most-senior economic bureaucrat said in one of the strongest warnings yet by a government official.

“When you look at the housing price bubble evidence, it’s unequivocally the case in Sydney -- unequivocally,” Treasury Secretary John Fraser said in testimony before a parliamentary committee in Canberra Monday. “Frankly, whatever the data says, just casual observation would tell you that’s the case.”