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Charter Hall exec to chair NHFIC board

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 28 JUN 2021
... board for five years. Harrington will resign from his position as the independent chair and director of the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI), as he moves into the part-time chair role at NHFIC. The government has also appointed ...

Calls for Royal Commission into housing

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUN 2021
Researchers from the University of New South Wales have issued an alarming report on the state of the Australian housing market, referring to it as a "beast" that is "rampaging through the economy". The researchers are calling for a Royal Commission ...

Housing market reaches new heights

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAY 2021
... fresh record highs for the past four months, but the end of April marked the first time the total value of Australian housing broke the $8 trillion dollar mark," CoreLogic head of research Eliza Owen said. "This puts Australian residential property at ...

Real estate proves resilience: CoreLogic

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 17 DEC 2020
... the initial shock of COVID-19 led to a 2.1% decline in national property values between April and September, Australian housing values were 1.1% higher over the year to November following a recovery trend in the last two months. "Housing values have ...

Housing values continue to slide

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2020
Australian housing values continued to decline for the third consecutive month in July and are set to drop even further when government support winds down, according to the latest research from CoreLogic. CoreLogic's home value index dropped 0.6% last ...

Perth hit worst in housing crisis

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2020
... month, and preliminary indicators for June are showing the rate of decline has gathered some momentum. "The Australian housing market is not one market, but a collection of many. Over the past few months, dwelling market performance has varied by region ...

Chief economist update: Australian property market slump

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2019
... "Australian house prices would decline a further 5% this year, on top of a 6.7% decline from the peak so far, making Australian housing the worst performer out of 24 countries for the second consecutive year." This is before stabilising in 2020 due to ...

Chief economist update: As safe as Australian houses?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 NOV 2018
... as safe as houses, you mean that they are completely safe." If the "it" was about the current state of the Australian housing market, then "No. It's not safe, it's... very dangerous, be careful." This is because Australian property prices are ...

The CPI report that confirms all biases

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 APR 2017
... momentum in the Eurozone economy. And oh, there's also the case of the RBA's concern over the froth in the Australian housing market that could spark financial instability. Low inflation may have pushed the RBA into cutting interest rates back in May ...

Expensive property market creating super opportunity

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2017
Millennials priced out of the Australian housing market should consider directing savings towards superannuation in order to generate similar returns to that of home ownership. Earlier this week research house Demographia labeled Sydney as the second ...