Articles by Tim Lawless

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Tim heads up the Core Logic RP Data research and analytics team, analysing real estate markets, demographics and economic trends across Australia. Visit www.corelogic.com.au

Housing investment rebounding on improved market conditions and a narrowing spread between rental yields and mortgage rates. The value of home loans committed to by investors has recorded a sharp rise since June, rising a cumulative 11.6% over the three months ending August 2019; the fastest rate of growth in the value of investment loan…

We’re now experiencing the strongest quarterly clearance rate since the June 2017 quarter across Australia’s combined capitals. Over the 3 months to September 2019, the clearance rate across the combined capital cities came in at 69.9 per cent across 16,730 auctions, the strongest quarterly clearance rate seen since the June 2017 quarter (71.7 per cent)….

The number of new listings being added to the combined capitals housing market has seen a hefty 44% rise from the depths of the winter slowdown in early July through to the first week of October, however that hasn’t been enough to push fresh listing numbers in line with previous years. The number of new…

After recording the largest losses during the recent housing market downturn, the premium end of Sydney and Melbourne’s housing market is driving the rebound in capital gains. The performance of the housing market can vary dramatically from region to region, but also across the different product types and value ranges. Splitting the market into quartiles…

The CoreLogic March 2019 quarterly rental review shows that although rental growth is slowing, dwelling values are generally underperforming which is pushing gross rental yields higher from their historic lows. At the end of March 2019, gross rental yields nationally were recorded at 4.10%, up from 3.77% a year earlier and they are now the…

While the budget speech referenced housing a few times, in the sense that falling housing prices represent a downside risk to budget forecasts, there was in fact very little in the budget directly focussed on the housing sector.  With the performance of the housing and household sector so critical to the Government achieving their forecasts…

Australia’s national population is estimated to have increased by 109,057 persons over the quarter to be up 395,101 persons or 1.6% over the 12 months to September 2018 according to the latest Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) demographic arrivals and departures data release. While nationally the drivers of population growth are net overseas migration and…

Rental rates nationally have been falling since May 2018. Rental rates fell by -0.3% over the December 2018 quarter however, they were 0.5% higher over the past year. Annual rental growth is the slowest it has been since July 2016 and lower than the 2.7% growth recorded in 2017. Combined capital city rents fell by…

While Australia’s population continues to grow quite rapidly, the rate of growth has slowed. It was estimated that at the end of the June 2018 quarter, the national population was 24,992,369 persons. Australia’s population increased by 1.6% or 390,509 persons over the 12 months to June 2018. The 390,509 annual person increase in the national…

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