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Fewer Australian real estate businesses over the 2012 financial year 23 Aug 2013 | 05:45 am
The ABS released their Counts of Australian Businesses data last week. The data largely flew under the radar, but there are some interesting findings in the data that relate to the housing market an...
What happens to housing values and sales volumes following an election? 16 Aug 2013 | 02:57 am
In last week’s blog I looked at what happens to the housing market in the 12 months leading up to a federal election, this week I take a look at what happens in the 12 months after a federal election....
What happens to housing values and sales volumes in the lead-up to an election? 9 Aug 2013 | 02:42 am
Over recent months I have heard lots of commentary about the expected slowdown in the housing market in the lead-up to a Federal election. This week I have looked at the five past elections and analy...
The average capital city home owner is almost $30,000 better off since Australia’s housing market started to recover in June last year. 2 Aug 2013 | 04:40 am
Over the past five years to July 2013 dwelling values across Australia’s capital cities have increased by 14.8%. That’s interesting information, but for a lot of people it actually doesn’t mean much ...
Where to from here for home values? 25 Jul 2013 | 11:49 am
According to the RP Data-Rismark Home Value Index results for June 2013, combined capital city home values increased by 3.8% over the 2012/13 financial year. The growth in home values has been modera...
Investors and upgraders continue to power the housing market 18 Jul 2013 | 11:00 am
An ongoing theme in the recent increase in housing market activity has been that it has largely been driven by investors and upgraders rather than the first home buyers. If you recall, it was first h...
Where is it more affordable to pay down a mortgage than a landlord? 12 Jul 2013 | 05:59 am
Today RP Data released an update to their Buy versus Rent report which provides a suburb by suburb summary about the standard costs associated with servicing a mortgage compared with paying rent. Bef...
Why aren’t dwelling values increasing at the same pace as the last growth cycle? 5 Jul 2013 | 05:55 am
As the housing market recovery continues in a fairly sedate manner, I thought it would be interesting to compare some of the key housing market metrics that we follow to observe the differences in the...
Where are the migrants to Australia coming from? 28 Jun 2013 | 03:31 am
RP Data’s Property Pulse this week included a research article on population growth (the Property Pulse is delivered to RP Data subscribers each week). As a broad overview, Australia’s population grow...
Q: When is a city not a city? | A: When it’s a suburb (or a council region or a statistical division or a statistical subdivision or a…) 21 Jun 2013 | 06:42 am
Often times when we are presenting our research findings we find there is sometimes confusion about the geographic boundaries we are reporting on. Take our standard indices reporting for example, whi...
