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Australian rental growth re-accelerates
CoreLogic reported that Australian rental growth re-accelerated in February, with the monthly rate of change rising to 0.9%, the highest reading since March last year.
Leith van Onselen
2 months ago
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There is no property investor exodus
Last year, we read multiple headlines claiming that investors were selling their properties, which was supposedly exacerbating the rental crisis by reducing stock.
Leith van Onselen
2 months ago
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Australian house prices strengthen in February
Leith van Onselen
2 months ago
Australian housing construction plunges deeper into abyss
Leith van Onselen
2 months ago
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Perth housing crushed under population avalanche
Leith van Onselen
2 months ago
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Relaxing planning won’t stop developers land banking
The YIMBY movement claims that if Australia simply relaxed zoning and planning rules and let developers build apartments wherever they wanted, Australia’s housing crisis would magically resolve.
Leith van Onselen
2 months ago
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Aussie mortgage stress ratchets higher
According to Roy Morgan’s January mortgage stress survey, 31.0% of owner-occupied households with mortgages are “stressed”, the highest level since October 2008, when the official cash rate (OCR) was 2.9% higher at 7.25%.
Leith van Onselen
2 months ago
14
Australia’s Great Housing Hijack
Author of the renowned “Game of Mates”, Dr Cameron Murray, has published a new book entitled “The Great Housing Hijack”, which explains how vested interests pull the strings on the property market in Australia.
Leith van Onselen
2 months ago
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Towering Inferno just beginning
Now this is amusing. I somehow missed it a few months ago: Industry super fund QSuper handed back the keys to a prime New York City midtown office tower after its investment went under water just 2½ years after valuing the asset at $US540 million ($855 million) on its books.
David Llewellyn-Smith
2 months ago
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Perth is the new housing boom town
Perth has become Australia’s housing boom town.
Leith van Onselen
2 months ago
25
Why rental demand is always greater than supply
ABC Business Reporter, Gareth Hutchens, cited Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI) research claiming that over the past 25 years, the share of high income households living in the private rental market has tripled in Australia.
Leith van Onselen
2 months ago
11
Australian house prices turn two-speed
ANZ Bank senior economist Adelaide Timbrell says higher mortgage interest rates appear to have weighed on house price growth in Sydney and Melbourne in recent months.
Leith van Onselen
2 months ago
3
Housing inflation haunts RBA
CBA economist, Stephen Wu, has released the bank’s preview of the January inflation indicator, scheduled for release on Wednesday by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).
Leith van Onselen
2 months ago
5
The Guardian emigrates to Planet Gobbledygook
Does The Guardian have a cookie cutter for these “politicians“?
David Llewellyn-Smith
2 months ago
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Houston, we have a rent problem
SQM Research managing director, Louis Christopher, appeared on Radio 2GB on Saturday, where he debunked the myth that Australia’s current rental crisis is being driven by a lack of supply.
Leith van Onselen
2 months ago
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Australian house prices power up
Australia’s housing market continues to strengthen.
Leith van Onselen
2 months ago
14
Auction deluge descends on Melbourne
CoreLogic released its final auction results for last weekend, with a clearance rate of 68.8% across the combined capital cities, down -1.5 percentage points from the previous week (70.3%).
Leith van Onselen
2 months ago
4
Domain gaslights first home buyers as it destroys
It’s terrible!
David Llewellyn-Smith
2 months ago
12
Relaxing planning won’t magically build housing
The notion is that if Australia simply relaxed planning restrictions and let developers build apartments wherever they wanted, then Australia’s housing crisis would magically resolve.
Leith van Onselen
2 months ago
7
Housing crisis threatens to blow apart retirement system
The Super Members Council of Australia has released research showing that debt in retirement is increasing.
Leith van Onselen
2 months ago
12
Australia’s housing crisis needs honest solutions
On Thursday, I was interviewed by David Flint on ADH TV where I picked apart the latest report from the NSW Productivity Commission blaming a ‘lack of supply’ for Sydney’s housing crisis: Below are key highlights from the interview, along with key charts.
Leith van Onselen
2 months ago
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Australian renters driven into share housing
The latest RBA Statement of Monetary Policy (SoMP) warned that Australia’s record immigration-fueled population growth is driving rental inflation higher.
Leith van Onselen
2 months ago
3
High income earners leverage into investment property
CBA released its investor presentation last week, which included the below chart showing home loan applications by household income band: As shown above, households with incomes above $200,000 have leveraged-up massively into investment property.
Leith van Onselen
2 months ago
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McGrathmageddon explodes in property market
It’s been too long since we heard from McGrathmageddon.
David Llewellyn-Smith
2 months ago
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Australian tenants brace for more rent pain
SQM Research managing director, Louis Christopher, warns that rents will continue to rise strongly across Australia this year amid ongoing strong population growth and falling rental vacancies.
Leith van Onselen
2 months ago
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