Cameron Kusher is Corelogic RP Data’s senior research analyst. Cameron has a thorough understanding of the fundamentals such as demographics, trends & economics. Visit www.corelogic.com.au
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released its residential property prices indexes for the March 2017 quarter. A valuable data set from the release relates to the value of dwelling stock and the number of residential dwellings. Both of which have increased over the quarter. When this data is paired with data from the Australian…
Often considered to be the laggards in the upturn in a property market cycle, Australia’s regional property markets are currently experiencing a flow-on effect from strong capital city market activity, with a rise in house and unit values recorded over the past 12 months to May 2017. Covering the 50 most populous non-capital city council areas,…
Housing finance and credit data released earlier this month by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) and Reserve Bank (RBA) confirmed investor interest in the housing market has started to drop off. Affected largely by Australian mortgage lenders rationing credit to the investor segment, the lifting of mortgage rates is also starting to bite according…
The Westpac and Melbourne Institute’s consumer sentiment index for June 2017 was released earlier this week. The Index was recorded at 96.2 points which was the lowest monthly reading for the index since April 2016. When the Consumer Sentiment Index sits below 100 points it means that consumers are more pessimistic than optimistic. The Index…
The latest housing data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) shows that while lending to owner occupiers is fairly flat, demand from the investor segment has continued to stall. When you dig deeper, the data shows that owner occupier demand is growing for new lending as refinancing stalls. The April 2017 housing finance data…
During the up cycle of any property market, it’s natural that people will tend only to focus on when values rise. However, values have fallen more recently than we tend to remember in each capital city, in this week’s CoreLogic Property Pulse, we look at the magnitude and duration of these falls in the past. Throughout…
We took a look at the true costs, including the biggest hurdle-a deposit, as well as the impost of stamp duty for first home buyers trying to buy a home for owner occupation. The first chart highlights the 25th percentile prices for houses and units across each of the capital cities. The 25th percentile…
The latest internal migration data shows that an increasing number of inter-state and intra-state population movements are to either sea change/tree change regions or the outskirts of the capital cities. Each year the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) publishes data on internal migration across the regions of Australia. Internal migration data counts the number…
Data released by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) earlier this week has shown that high loan to value ratio (LVR) lending continues to fall indicating new buyers are in many instances using larger deposits. The latest authorised deposit-taking institution (ADI) property exposures data for the March 2017 quarter revealed the ongoing trend as…
Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Hobart cheapest places to enter housing market. The current and never-ending conversations around housing affordability, particularly around how millennials will get a head-start on the property ladder, has seen a whole raft of suggestions thrown at a possible solution. In this week’s CoreLogic Property Pulse we took a look at the…
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