- SYDNEY: Predicting future house prices is always a gamble, but for a bearish Australian academic who lost a bet that prices would crash, it also involves a trek to the country's highest mountain peak.
University of Western Sydney Associate Professor Steve Keen began a 225 kilometer, (140 mile) nine-day trek Thursday from Canberra to the top of 2,228 meter high Mount Kosciuszko after wrongly predicting a housing market crash.
