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Buy me a house

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 SEP 2013
... territories have increased 5.3% in the year to July. The Economist magazine has an interactive chart that compares global house prices - nominal, real, against average income, against rent and percentage changes from a base date.A This is one competition ...

RBA decisions decisions

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUN 2013
... 23rd straight month in May; ANZ job ads fell by 2.4% in May - the third straight month of decline; national city house prices dropped by 1.2% in May that followed a 0.5% fall in April; etcetera. These beg two questions. Has the transmission mechanism ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2013
... dive on Monday when property and construction stocks were hit after the government set out rules aimed at capping house prices. But eyes were on China's National People's Congress (NPC), which opened Tuesday with outgoing Premier Wen Jiabao saying the ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2013
... Australian Bureau of Statistics is due to release December data for international trade in goods and services and house prices, and the Australian Industry Group/Commonwealth Bank Australian Performance of Services Index (PSI) for month just ended is ...

Time to fear?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2013
... the recent positive reports out of Europe and Asia persist. In Europe, unemployment in Germany fell in January, UK house prices rose in the same month. And get this, Spain reported another surplus in November - the second month in a row - boosted by ...

Uncertainly certain RBA cut

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2012
... down 0.2% in the third quarter; flat retail sales in October; ANZ job ads down by 2.9%, AiG PMI down 1.6 points, house prices flat and TD Securities inflation measure down by 0.1% in November; and, still strong Australian dollar - provides a summary ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 13 NOV 2012
... Australia's head of economic analysis Jonathan Kearns and Ray White deputy chairman Sam White speak about Australian house prices at an Australian Business Economists luncheon in Sydney. In Australia, the market on Monday closed lower, dragged down by ...

Pick your poison

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2012
... index soared to 83.7 from 71.1 in August. And why not? Apart from the unlimited money print and because of it, US house prices are lifting. The S&P/Case-Shiller index showed property values rose by 1.2% in the year to July - the biggest annual gain since ...

Glimmer of hope for house prices

MARK STORY  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 SEP 2012
Median house prices across Australia's capital cities increased over the June quarter by measly 1.4%, with other dwellings up 0.6%, according to the latest data from the Bendigo Bank/REIA Real Estate Market Facts report prepared by the Real Estate Institute ...

Lucky in so many ways

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUL 2012
... increased." Can't sleep over a potential property crash? Sleep tight and don't let that bedbug bite. While Australian house prices have risen substantially against the US, "Australian dwelling prices, relative to income, are in the pack of comparable ...