HIA: Dwelling starts to peak this financial year

Thursday 18 February 2016

The Housing Industry Association (HIA) has released its latest Outlook for Residential Building Activity, which forecasts a peak in dwelling starts this financial year (at 213,000), before construction falls by 24.8% to 160,100 in 2017/18 (see next chart).

According to the HIA:

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Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.