Australian housing

The strong rebound in Australian property values has come to a shuddering halt with the Coronavirus lockdown. Auction clearance rates and buyer sentiment have...

Financial markets have disconnected from economics over the last few weeks, and so we dive into Martin's mortgage stress indicators to get a real-time view on what is...

This week's podcast features Dr Cameron Murray, who has the most compelling bull case for housing that I have heard. Not compelling enough to change my mind, but...

Australia’s faster trend pace of population growth over the past half century has been a key driver of its relatively fast trend economic growth, its recent record run...

Australian Property has caught Coronavirus: the strong rebound in Australian property values has come to a shuddering halt with the Coronavirus lockdown. Auction...

Will Coronavirus collapse the Australian Property market? Martin North of Digital Finance Analytics joins the podcast to discuss what his mortgage stress consumer...

The Australian housing market was boosted from mid-last year by the combination of the Federal election removing the threat of changes to negative gearing and capital...

For a few weeks in late January and early February, stock markets suspended belief. Pundits on every channel emerged, suggesting a small economic dip followed by a...

12 months ago, Australia’s housing market appeared to be spiralling towards a very messy crash. A combination of factors had led to some of the worst falls in housing...

In the last three years, Australian houses have gone from boom to bust and now back to boom again. I have written in the past about how crazy the property cycle is,...

The recent Australian Housing report from CoreLogic shows Australian Property has seen a record rebound in the past 6-12 months. Today we covered what the data shows,...

Last week, the Reserve Bank of Australia signalled a very weak dovish bias that was as good as hold for longer, to the surprise of many. But what is more surprising is...

In this column I submit 10 big ideas for the next decade, which is bound to be a dangerous one, including: the coming of self-aware artificial intelligence; fusion...

With the recent surge in the Australian housing market, we thought of nobody more fitting than property and finance expert Martin North to inform us of what he sees in...

With Australia facing housing problems at both end of the demographic scale, alternative providers are eyeing the opportunities.At the more youthful end, hordes of...

I’ve written a few times recently about the imbalances in the Australian economy and how messed up the Australian housing cycle is. It looks as if the Australian...

The Australian Bureau of Statistics informs that the weighted average residential property price in the 8 capital cities has fallen for the sixth...

First, I need to set the scene. I wrote recently about how messed up the Australian economic cycle is, noting that housing booms come in several different flavours....

After the latest wave of central bank rate reductions my clients and contacts have been consistently asking whether central banks know what they are doing. Given rate...

Last week, we asked three experts whether the Australian housing market had found a bottom in recent months. While the contributors opinions differed on the overall...