By Leith van Onselen
How obsessed are Australian’s with housing? How about the recent release of daily pricing of Australians No.1 “asset” and the fact that this post is almost our most popular each day? It’s up to you to read this daily or each week or not at all, but it is an interesting behavioural insight into what is measured, and what counts.
Please find below the RP Data-Rismark daily house price indices, for 23 March 2012 for your reference:
And below are the index values as at the end of February, which you can compare to the above daily movements to get the month-to-date home price movements in each capital and nationally:
Finally, for a longer-term prespective on Australian home prices, below is RP Data’s time-series chart showing the rolling annual change in dwelling values:
