Australian real estate private credit is in a ‘wonderful position'
'Australian real estate private credit … is in a wonderful position,' Mr Andrews told Sky News Business Reporter Edward Boyd.
'We've seen sort of the market absorb the really high interest rate … over the last sort of four years.
'Borrowers are performing really, really strongly.'
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