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OPINION
Tim Lawless: know your market and understand the stats
Australian consumers have grown to be exceptionally savvy when it comes to researching the property market. Not a day goes by when there isn’t an article in the local paper reporting some aspect of the property market, and information providers like CoreLogic make researching the local marketplace much easier for the average buyer, seller or investor.
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INDUSTRY NEWS
CoreLogic Quarterly Economic Report Update – April 2018
Value of Residential Property: $7.5 trillion Value of Australian Superannuation: $2.5 trillion Value of Listed Equities: $1.9 trillion Value of Commercial Real Estate: $0.972 trillion Nationally, dwelling value growth has stopped in its tracks, in fact, over the first quarter of this year, national dwelling values have fallen by -0.5%. Although the quarterly rate of decline has slowed compared to…
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NEWS
Values Increasing Faster than Outstanding Debt: Tim Lawless
The number of properties mortgaged is climbing, however, values are increasing faster than outstanding debt, says CoreLogic’s Tim Lawless. Last week, 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…
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NEWS
Stamp Duty changes to affect buyer demand: Tim Lawless
The decision last week by the News South Wales Government Premier Gladys Berejiklian to provide first home buyers with a stamp duty exemption for properties with a price tag under $650,000 is likely to boost demand for this under-represented segment of the market, according to Tim Lawless. Based on recent Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) data, first home buyers comprised…
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NEWS
Overview of budget implications for housing and housing affordability: Tim Lawless
With so much debate about housing affordability it was always going to be the case that the 2017 budget included key policies aimed at improving the affordability of housing and addressing some of the systemic issues that have pushed housing prices out of reach for many Australians. At face value, the budget measures present a good attempt at improving housing…
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INDUSTRY NEWS
CoreLogic December 2016 Property Outlook: Tim Lawless
CoreLogic have released their property market outlook for December 2016 which includes valuable market insights from Head of Research Asia Pacific, Tim Lawless on the current trend of investment activity, growth values, affordability and interest rates heading into 2017. CAPITAL CITY PROPERTY VALUES UP BUT SLOWING Capital city property values increased by 0.2 per cent in November, according to the…
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INDUSTRY NEWS
December 2016 RBA decision: Tim Lawless, Core Logic
In response to the RBA’s decision to keep interest rates on hold, Tim Lawless, CoreLogic’s Head of Research, provides his expert commentary on the decision and what may lay ahead when they meet in February. Despite inflation tracking well below the target range of 2-3%, the RBA decided to keep the cash rate on hold at 1.5% today. “On one…
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NEWS
Property Pulse – Market Update, CoreLogic week ended 24 November 2016
CoreLogic released its weekly property pulse, this week including some interesting insights on ABS data released last week relating to employment, household incomes and construction. Employment Late last week the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released labour force data for October 2016. While the headline unemployment rate of 5.6% was steady over the month at its lowest level since February…
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Elite Agent
Trump: There is Nothing Certain But the Uncertain, says Tim Lawless
A new leader of the world’s largest superpower will always be accompanied by uncertainty, however the election of Donald Trump highlights (in the words of another Donald (Rumsfeld)) that “unknown unknowns” have been amplified. This means uncertainty. Trump is untested, unproven, and if the election campaign is anything to go by, spontaneous. While Trump’s acceptance speech seems to have calmed…
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INDUSTRY NEWS
Investor housing demand rises as owner occupier fades, CoreLogic Research
Housing finance data for August 2016 was recently released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). Over the month there was $31.4 billion worth of housing finance commitments which was -1.0% lower over the month and -5.1% lower than it was at its peak in April 2015. The $31.4 billion worth of commitments in August was split between $19.5 billion…
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