more gloomy housing figures, page-2

that is easily fixed - rather than dropping interest rates and allow food, fuel and services to rise even further, it's time land developers and tradesmen started subsidising the sector for once and copped some nice pay cuts on the chin rather than expecting all of us to compensate a dead horse with low rates. A nice fall in house and land package costs would offset the rise in interest rates. Does anyone here think it's normal to have tradesmen, that are involved in the building industry, earn around 3 times the average wage, or are we just naive fools and believe that this is all just everyday life?