Special Reports

What a difference a year makes.

Earlier this week I showed how fixed rate mortgages have ratcheted up, rising by 0.48% (< 3 years) and 1.08% (>3 years) from their bottom last year: The story is different for variable mortgage rates.

2021 began with optimism.

Below is the first in a new monthly routine of special reports that will be provided exclusively to MacroBusiness subscribers.

Australia’s property market began 2020 with strong momentum.

As 2019 comes to a close, the Australian economy is giving mixed messages.

In MB’s Half-Year special report, entitled “Can ScoMo’s miracle save housing and the economy?”, we forecast a modest house price recovery for Australia into 2020.

In MB’s 2018 Christmas special report, entitled “The Great Australian Housing Crash”, we anticipated a “strong probability” of a housing “crash” for Sydney and Melbourne, loosely defined as a peak-to-trough decline in values equal to or greater than 20%.

In MB’s 2017 Christmas special report, entitled “The Great Housing Reckoning”, we anticipated a difficult 2018 for Australians with “an intensification of the per capita income recession that is the essence of the nation’s budding lost decade”.

By Leith van Onselen Please find below MB’s monthly chart pack on the Australian economy for paid subscribers.

By Leith van Onselen Commencing today, MB will produce a monthly chart pack on the Australian economy for paid subscribers.

In MB’s 2015 Christmas special report, we forecast that 2017 would be “Judgement Day” for the Australian economy, due to four shocks: a continued global shakeout in commodity prices; a continued unwinding of the mining investment boom; falling housing construction and prices; and the closure of the Australian car manufacturing industry.

In our last report on the Brisbane property market, released in March 2015, I argued that investment fundamentals and valuations in Brisbane property were sound relative to the other major capitals, but that the economic outlook was mixed, thus posing some risks to potential investors.

The 2016 Census was released late June and, as always, it provided some useful insights into the Australian housing market.

The Sydney-Melbourne rivalry has been a century in the making.

Exclusively from Gerard Minack.

It has been nearly three years since we published a members’ special report on the Perth housing market (see Perth property at the precipice, July 2014).

Fossil fuels have a limited time as viable sources of energy.

By Leith van Onselen In recent times I have witnessed excuses about today’s record high house prices (and record low affordability) that do not pass the laugh test and warrant thorough debunking.

What a wonderfully hopeful species the human being is!

The Sydney-Melbourne rivalry has been a century in the making.

China unleashed its April data avalanche over the weekend and it missed big across the board as expected.

By Leith van Onselen Below is this month’s report for MB subscribers summarising the major statistical releases pertaining to the Australian economy in March, broken-down by topic.