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National asking prices rose across all property types, with houses leading the charge, according to SQM Research’s Weekly Asking Prices Index for The national average asking price for houses climbed to $1,296,482—up 2.25% from the previous week and 6.9% year-on-year. Units followed suit, rising 1.53% weekly and 6.8% annually. Sydney recorded the sharpest weekly increase…

Want to know what’s really happening with property prices right now? Every month, investors, homeowners, and would-be buyers turn to the latest median property price data, hoping to make sense of what’s happening in our housing markets. And while the numbers give us important clues, they don’t tell the full story. Australia’s property markets are…

There’s a lot of talk about productivity in the news lately, isn’t there? But I’ve found that when economists talk about productivity, many people’s eyes glaze over. Yet productivity growth is probably the single most important driver of our living standards. It determines whether our wages rise, whether our economy grows sustainably, and whether future…

The Queensland Productivity Commission’s Interim Report into construction productivity might not make front-page headlines, but for those of us in the trenches of property development, homebuilding, and investment, it’s a potential game-changer. Yes, the numbers are sobering. Productivity in our sector has dropped 9% since 2018. That means we now need 9% more labour to…

There are two types of people in the world: Those who hate the success of others Those who let the successes of others fuel them toward their own greatness. Most people fall into the first group. It’s why we have “tall poppy syndrome.” Here’s my free tip for you: Be in the second group. That’s the…

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