house prices

Philip Lowe’s recent comments on the impacts of migration were basic economic analysis but hit a raw nerve for those invested in Australia’s population Ponzi scheme....

Australians are amongst the richest in the world, helped in large part by the value of dwellings and our compulsory Superannuation system. Today, Australia's household...

In the AFR I write that while our contrarian macro forecasts have been widely documented, what is not as well understood is the many complex inputs into these...

In a new research paper (download here), Coolabah’s Chief Macro Strategist, Kieran Davies replicates one of the RBA’s internal models on the Australian housing market...

Today in the AFR I argue that contrary to popular myth, there is no housing affordability crisis (click on that link to read the full column). Quite the opposite, in...

As central banks around the world have cut interest rates to historically low levels, the potential impact on asset prices has become a major topic of discussion....

Two recent presentations by senior RBA staff have acknowledged that cutting interest rates has put a rocket under house prices. This is a refreshing change, as for...

Faced with an overheating housing market, the RBNZ is tightening lending standards for home loans by reinstating pre-pandemic loan-valuation ratio (LVR) restrictions...

Setting side Bitcoin, what was the best performing asset-class for Aussie investors in 2020? In the AFR today I write that as it turned out, residential real estate...

Australian house prices continued their gradual rebound from the COVID-19 induced correction with dwelling values across both capital cities and regional markets...