New home sales took a step higher in the month and quarter of June 2014, said the Housing Industry Association, the voice of Australia’s residential building industry.
The HIA New Home Sales Report, a survey of Australia’s largest volume builders, shows an increase of 1.2 per cent in the month of June 2014 and a rise of 2.0 per cent in the June quarter. Sales of multi-units drove the monthly result, surging by 15.9 per cent. Detached house sales fell by 1.0 per cent in June.
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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal.
He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.
