One minute read A billion – in Australia – is $1,000,000,000. You see this amount written everywhere these days. You cannot escape it. It was brought home to me a few weeks back, whilst driving through New South Wales. Road work signs proudly announced $2.3 billion worth of construction here, another $1.7 billion there. Governments…
Investment matters, private expenditure, in particular. It reflects confidence. Where business invests, economic growth and jobs often follow. People move to where there is work. It is a ‘post-postmodern’ world. Show me the money! And our table speaks volumes. Total private investment State or territory Total Fiscal 2017 Distribution Fiscal 2017 Five year change NSW…
Past trends would have suggested that SEQld would have won. But no, the shift has been to a colder clime The strongest annual growth of home prices can now be found in Hobart, which is now pushing past Sydney and Melbourne. And this shows that the higher home prices recorded in Sydney and Melbourne in…
Two minute read. Yawn. Yes, reading about tax stuff is, well….like watching paint dry. No, much worse. So, I will keep this short and sweet. These stats might surprise you. If I was to summarise the latest taxation statistics in a simple form – say, as 100 people, then: 16 own an investment property 84…
Two minute read. I keep on reading about falling household sizes. More and more of us, apparently, are living alone. True, many of us might be lonely but living solo – I wonder. So, we have done some work and found out that a lot of us actually live in increasingly crowded, not empty houses….
Our demographic shape is changing. A drive through inner Brisbane will find a skyline dotted with cranes, busy at work on many of the city’s new residential towers. It has had us wondering just who is going to occupy all of those little boxes in the sky. Our recent research on Australia’s future demographic shape…
