Articles tagged with "Housing Trends"

With many of Australia’s capital city housing markets posting a gain in values over the past three months, a recovery trend is looking increasingly entrenched… but how long will it take for residential property values to reach a new record high if...

Rising home values, low mortgage rates and comparatively attractive rental yields are bringing investors back into the housing market. Despite the bounce in investment activity since June, investors still comprise a relatively small proportion of...

Most Australians could well assume that recent falls in housing values have translated into more affordable housing. Lower prices, after all, should equate to better affordability.

Surge in Millennials struggling to leave home amid ongoing affordability crisis/

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) recently published the March 2019 quarter demographic data. The data showed that at the end of the first quarter of 2019 the estimated residential population of the country was 25,287,394 persons, which was...

The latest quarterly property exposures data from APRA shows that authorised deposit-taking institutions (ADIs) are writing comparatively fewer risky loans although there has been a slight rise over the June 2019 quarter.

The latest housing finance data from the ABS is showing that demand for mortgages is rising and this rise is most evident in NSW and Vic where capital city dwelling values are now rising.

Based on sales over the past 12 months, the average house across the nation is currently held for 11.3 years, while units are held for a slightly lower 9.6 years

When discussing housing affordability older Australian tend to point to much higher interest rates in the past as being a challenge while for younger Australians, higher property values are seen as the biggest barrier to home ownership.

The SA4 index data shows some early signs of improving housing market conditions, largely in Sydney and Melbourne and largely in some of the areas in which values have recorded comparatively large falls.

The CoreLogic August home value index results showed that national dwelling values increased by 0.8% over the month; the first monthly increase in values since October 2017 and the largest monthly increase since April 2017.

Australia and New Zealand have experienced significant natural disasters in recent years. The floods in Queensland, earthquakes in Christchurch and Kaikoura as well as bushfires in South Australia highlight just how vulnerable residents can be to...

The national housing market has just experienced its largest downturn in dwelling values since at least the 1980s. The fact that values nationally fell by less than 10% speaks to the ongoing strength of the housing market over the past 40 years...

CoreLogic’s vendor discounting data, which is based on a rolling three month median, shows that although discounting levels are no longer increasing, there is yet to be any noticeable improvement.

<p>The judgement in the landmark case between ASIC and Westpac was handed down earlier this week. ASIC had taken Westpac to court for breaching responsible lending laws more than 250,000 times by using the household expenditure measure (HEM) when...