The ABS released their finance series today, which completes the monthly data. As normal we analyse the trend series, which smooths some of the monthly data noise. Overall lending across all categories was up 0.71% to $71 billion in the month. Commercial lending (excluding for...
POLICY ALERT - UDIA QUEENSLAND Tuesday 6th March, 2018 The Palaszczuk Government has re-introduced laws to ban developers from making donations to political parties in parliament today. Our concerns expressed last year remain unchanged. It is the stance of the UDIA Queensland that all donations to political parties...
An interesting research paper from the Economic Research Department RBA “The Effect of Zoning on Housing Prices” is worth reading. Overall, they suggest that development restrictions (interacting with increasing demand) have contributed materially to the significant rise in housing prices in Australia’s largest cities since the late...
Would you just sit around and wait to die? Or would you seek shelter, assess your situation and work out ways to get out of your current predicament. Would you stand and freeze or would you move around to keep warm, to stay alive? If lost,...
Bendigo and Adelaide Bank has told the Productivity Commission that fees for service would remove potential conflicts of interest, but that such a change would have “significant and varied implications”. The Productivity Commission (PC) had posed the question in its draft report into competition in the...
Pockets of the Brisbane property market are tipped to outperform this year, as southern markets cool and more interstate buyers turn their attention north. While Brisbane as a whole is predicted to continue its slow and steady price growth, analysts have revealed some areas will go...
UIDA Market Report: South East Queensland (February 2018)...
What’s going on with the Brisbane apartment market? Here we are talking about the City of Brisbane (LGA) which extends in a 20km radius from the Brisbane GPO. 1. About 1,184,000 people live in Brisbane. This area is expected to grow by some 16,000 new residents per...
What’s going on with the Gold Coast housing market? 1. About 577,000 people live on the Gold Coast. It is expected to grow by some 12,500 new residents per annum. 2. There is a need to build 5,000 new dwellings each year to adequately house this demand. 3....
The regional centre of Toowoomba, 125km west of Brisbane, has proven to be an active locale for development activity, punching above its weight with 103 project commencements over the past 12 months. Worth a combined $608 million, this represents one per cent of all construction commencements across...