{
  "id": 14207117,
  "title": "First home buyers don’t want to catch a falling knife",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/13/first-home-buyers-dont-want-to-catch-a-falling-knife",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-10-13T13:01:47.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "MacroBusiness",
    "slug": "macrobusiness",
    "url": "https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2026/10/first-home-buyers-dont-want-to-catch-a-falling-knife/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Earlier this month, housing minister Clare O’Neil boasted that the government’s expanded 5% deposit scheme, introduced on 1 October 2025, had ‘helped’ more than 100,000 people into the housing market. In reality, the scheme lured 100,000 first home buyers into debt to buy near the top of the market. Buyers have since endured four interest The post First home buyers don’t want to catch a falling…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}