When Australia closed out the 2017 calendar year, the total number of properties listed for sale reached a level considered, at the time, deeply depressed. With just a little over 200,000 homes listed for sale, it was dramatically below what had become normal in the early to mid-2010s, when the 220,000 to 240,000 homes for
Oh what a night! Wall Street managed to a 4% plus volatile turnaround after embracing the uber good earnings from NVIDIA before realising the AI bubble might be a bubble with no upside potential, not helped by a massaged and very late September US jobs report and a lot of Fed hand wrangling over rate
DXY is ready to pop but not yet. AUD is breaking down. CNY yawn. Gold and oil yawn. Metals say Chinese property rescue is no bueno. Miners too. EeeiiuuM Junk was OK, weirdly. Yields too. Stocks puke. US September payrolls didn’t cheer anybody. Total nonfarm payroll employment edged up by 119,000 in September but has shown
A new proposal has been pitched in the United States to address the country’s housing crisis. The Trump administration is working to introduce 50-year mortgage terms for homebuyers. Instead of the standard 30-year fixed mortgage, payments would be spread across 50 years. President Trump has framed it as a continuation of the American Dream, likening
Action in Japanese bond markets dominate risk taking across Asia with stock markets having mixed sessions after Wall Street stabilised overnight, with Japanese shares launching higher. The USD pulled back against most of the undollars after a big surge overnight on the release of the FOMC minutes which indicated the December rate cut may not
Goldman has some whacky analysis of China today. October activity weakness not too alarming: China’s October economic data showed wide spread weakness, especially in property and investment. Most major indicators grew less than 5% year-on-year, and property new starts declined nearly 30% yoy. This downturn is partly due to technical factors, such as a high
All recent opinion polls show that Australian voters are fed up with excessive levels of immigration. People cite the impact on the housing market as a major concern. Recently, AMP chief economist forecast that Australia’s cumulative housing shortage is at least 200,000 and could be as much as 300,000. The latest projections from the National
The following chart from Alex Joiner from IFM Investors summarises how the billions of taxpayer dollars spent on energy subsidies have masked the rise in electricity costs: In 2024–25, households received up to $300 in rebates, and eligible small businesses up to $325, costing the federal budget $3.5 billion. In the May 2025 Budget, the
It is maddening watching the Domain newspapers distort everything about property. Real estate agents will have to disclose a home’s reserve price well before buyers attend auctions under Australian-first laws aimed at tackling rampant property underquoting in Victoria. The fundamental change, to be announced by the Allan government on Thursday, follows this masthead’s Bidding Blind investigation, which
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