Via HIA:
HIA New Home Sales look to be finishing the year a little more positively than previously evident. Following a string of weak results, private detached house sales increase by 3.6 per cent in November 2018.
Encouragingly, the monthly rise was geographically widespread: sales increased in Victoria (7.3 per cent); Queensland (2.1 per cent); South Australia (7.4 per cent); and Western Australia (2.2 per cent). New South Wales was the lone state where sales declined during the month (down by 3.3 per cent).