MELBOURNE real estate agents say a third of properties sold in the leafy eastern suburbs is to foreign nationals taking advantage of relaxed investment laws.

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THE federal and state governments are moving to ease the pressure on house prices by commissioning a review of factors curtailing the supply of new houses and artificially pushing up the demand for housing.

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More young Australians see themselves as lifelong renters as the dream of home ownership fades, a new survey has found.

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MELBOURNE'S property market continued its incredible run at the weekend and because of strong demand, shows no signs of slowing. This weekend, 739 out of a reported 875 auctions resulted in a sale, producing another high clearance rate of 84 per cent.

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THE Reserve Bank governor's comments in his surprising series of television interviews this week concentrated, among other things, on dampening any potential enthusiasm for speculative activity in a rapidly rising housing market.

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FOR those who have bought in Melbourne's inner city, the good news has been the steady climb of property prices as former working-class enclaves have become hip addresses.

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INTEREST rates will almost certainly go up on Tuesday, taking mortgage rates closer to ''average'' levels of 7 per cent. Then Glenn Stevens, the newly revealed guitar-playing, all-round ''ordinary guy'' we have for a Reserve Bank governor, will explain it had to happen because house prices are going crazy.

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BRACE yourself, home owners. Barring some overseas economic or financial calamity, it's almost a certainty now that interest rates are going to get significantly higher.

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