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Number of million dollar suburbs up 180% in 5 years
Leith van Onselen
7 years ago
3
HIA: End of year bounce back in new home sales
From the HIA: “New home sales hit a two year low in October last year, but recovered well in November and December,” said HIA Chief Economist, Dr Harley Dale.
Leith van Onselen
7 years ago
2
Has APRA launched macroprudential round two?
From the Digital Finance Analytics Blog: The latest loan data was a wake up call to the industry and regulators.
Leith van Onselen
7 years ago
20
CBA sends shockwave through specufestor lending market
By Leith van Onselen A day after its subsidiary, Bankwest, slammed the brakes on property investment lending for new customers, its parent, the CBA, has done likewise.
Leith van Onselen
7 years ago
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How are Australia’s house price indices tracking?
By Leith van Onselen Yesterday, Residex amended its property price index results for the December quarter to include median values, thus providing an opportune time to yet again compare how each of the major data providers are tracking each other across the major markets.
Leith van Onselen
7 years ago
2
Economists tip big apartment price falls
By Leith van Onselen An overwhelming majority of 26 economists and housing experts surveyed believe that Australia’s three biggest cities are facing falling apartment prices once the deluge of apartments currently under construction hits the market, causing an oversupply.
Leith van Onselen
7 years ago
13
Gotti warns specufestors on negative gearing cuts
From Gotti today: The biggest single difference between the parties is that the ALP plans to restrict negative gearing to new buildings.
David Llewellyn-Smith
7 years ago
54
The Australian mortgage ponzi keystone cracks
The keystone in the great Australian mortgage ponzi, Genworth LMI, reported today and it wasn’t terribly encouraging: All of that is serious matter of perspective.
David Llewellyn-Smith
7 years ago
29
SQM: property listings down sharply in January
By Leith van Onselen From SQM Research comes stock on market figures for the month of January, which fell sharply both on monthly and annual terms: As shown above, property listings nationally fell by 3.0% in January to be down a hefty by 5.5% year-on-year.
Leith van Onselen
7 years ago
17
Australia’s two-speed housing market
Leith van Onselen
7 years ago
37
Eslake, Oliver tell APRA to tighten
From Domainfax: Independent economist Saul Eslake says that if you see the rebound in investor lending as a concern, there are three options on the table.
David Llewellyn-Smith
7 years ago
4
Bankwest pulls specufestor handbrake
Via the AFR: Bankwest, a subsidiary of Commonwealth Bank of Australia, has slammed the brakes on property investment lending for new customers.
David Llewellyn-Smith
7 years ago
27
Why has CoreLogic changed the Residex index?
By Leith van Onselen For close to 15 years, Residex has reported house and unit price growth using a combination of repeat sales technology, hedonic technology and median/stratified median index technology.
Leith van Onselen
7 years ago
15
CoreLogic: Sydney/Melbourne housing affordability stinks
By Leith van Onselen CoreLogic has released a new report examining housing affordability, which paints a generally depressing picture: This report includes four measures of housing affordability, including rental affordability, which show different outcomes… The four measures utilised by CoreLogic are outlined below.
Leith van Onselen
7 years ago
5
Foreign property buyers “halve”
Here’s the realty-negative piece produced prior to the RBA meeting every month by Domainfax: Hong Kong-based hedge fund manager Apt Capital Management has shorted Australian banks because of their exposure to a property market it believes is out of step with Australia’s economic strength.
David Llewellyn-Smith
7 years ago
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Government’s foreign buyer crackdown turns limp
By Leith van Onselen Treasurer Scott Morrison has confirmed that the Government has forced the sale of another 15 homes that were illegally purchased by foreign nationals in contravention of Australia’s foreign ownership rules, taking the total to 61 forced sales.
Leith van Onselen
7 years ago
16
Shrinkflation strangles the economy
It’s a property boom with fewer and fewer winners.
David Llewellyn-Smith
7 years ago
13
Housing market “severely distorted” by portfolio investors
By Martin North, cross-posted from the Digital Finance Analytics Blog: The number of Property Investing households in Australia in rising.
Leith van Onselen
7 years ago
40
Residex: House prices jumped in Dec quarter
Leith van Onselen
7 years ago
5
Auction clearances start year on firm footing
Leith van Onselen
7 years ago
6
Just how low will sullied McGrath go?
A little schadenfreude today for a news story that is a week old but seems timeless nonetheless.
David Llewellyn-Smith
7 years ago
14
Rise of the middle-aged first home buyer
Leith van Onselen
7 years ago
14
How big is the dwelling pipeline now?
By Leith van Onselen With the ABS yesterday releasing its dwelling approvals data for the December quarter, it’s an opportune time to once again examine how dwelling construction is tracking against population growth at the national and state and territory levels.
Leith van Onselen
7 years ago
5
East Coast apartment approvals are well past their peak
By Leith van Onselen Yesterday’s dwelling approvals data for December from the ABS reported another big trend downturn in unit & apartment approvals (see next chart).
Leith van Onselen
7 years ago
3
CBA: Stop pumping housing demand, reform negative gearing
By Leith van Onselen It seems Australia’s biggest mortgage lender – the CBA – does not agree with Treasurer Scott Morrison that Labor’s negative gearing policy is “crap”, urging reform while accusing the federal government of artificially pumping housing demand.
Leith van Onselen
7 years ago
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