Brisbane Apartment

"Australia’s housing recovery, which is seven months young, is solidifying. The question is how hard and long it will run. In January l...

"One important difference in 2001 was that Australia’s household debt-to-disposable income ratio was a substantially lower 95 per cent....

An interesting article by Chris Joye in the Weekend AFR, worth reading: The Perils of Leveraging Property Investment

An interesting article by Chris Joye:   Housing Risk: It's greater than you think . "Using some complex statistical methods pione...

"As at the end of May, Melbourne dwelling prices are off about 5% this year. But most of this decline has materialised since the middle...

From a recent RP Data Report: Brisbane values and volumes Over the past 12 months, property values in Brisbane have fallen by -6.6 ...

Residential property values have continued to slide across the capital cities, with the RP Data-Rismark Home Value Index recording a -1.4 pe...

"On the outlook for the year ahead, Rismark’s Ben Skilbeck commented, “We expect that the RBA’s interest rate cuts in the final two mon...

According to contrarian economist Professor Steve Keen, it was accelerating debt that drove house prices up and it is decelerating debt th...

Consistent with RP Data and Rismark's forecasts, Australia's housing correction appears to be slowing. In September, capital city ho...

According to Chris Joye, Australian housing prices are unlikely to crash, but will more likely tread water. "While the Aussie share m...

Based on approximately 178,000 home sales over the year to July, the market-leading RP Data-Rismark Hedonic Home Value Index recorded a seas...

From Chris Joye: " The chart suggests that a national portfolio of housing has comprehensively outperformed all other investment catego...

According to Rismark, the median capital return to property owners since 1990 has been 7.8% per year. Over the last 20 years, 9.3% of all ho...

The modest overall decline in national dwelling values conceals considerable variation across the capital cities. For example, whereas Brisb...

Values Fell by -0.2% during the month of June 2011, the rate of decline is easing – after values fell by -0.5% in March, they fell by -0....

RP Data – Rismark Home Value Index Release Capital city dwelling values declined by 0.3 per cent (seasonally adjusted - s.a.) in May, and ar...

An extract from an article by Chris Joye: " A third myth is the popular claim that luxury, or more expensive, properties outperform che...

The near-double interest rate hike in November last year has bitten, with seasonally-adjusted Australian capital city dwelling values down 1...

Table 3: Apartment Prices While Australia’s capital city home values were flat in March (-0.2% seasonally adjusted and 0.0% raw), they softe...