Economics Archive
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- Pain Persists For Housing Starts - 16 December 2008
- Home Lending Posts First Rise Since January - 10 December 2008
- Credit Availability Remains Major Issue - 4 December 2008
- Rate is Right for Home Purchase - 2 December 2008
- More Pressure on Housing Starts - 2 December 2008
- HIA and RP Data - Land Release the key - 1 December 2008
- Rate Cut and FHOG Spark Sales - 27 November 2008
- Time to Build Capacity in Res Construction - 24 November 2008
- Home Lending Still Falling - 10 November 2008
- Red Tape Reform Also Now Needed - 5 November 2008
- Every point counts - 4 November 2008
- Housing Prices Weather Financial Storm - 3 November 2008
- Soft September Home Sales - 31 October 2008
- HIA Index Reveals Slight Improvement in Affordability - 23 October 2008
- FHOG to Boost New Housing Starts by 15,000 - 14 October 2008
- Expectations Justify Rate Cut - 9 October 2008
- Rate Cuts To Arrest Home Lending Freefall - 8 October 2008
- New Interest Rate Cycle Provides Some Hope - 7 October 2008
- Bovis Lend Lease Tops Construction List For 2007-08 - 3 October 2008
- A Tough Year For Australia's Housing 100 - 2 October 2008
- Population Up, Building Activity Down - 30 September 2008
- New Home Sales Continue to Struggle - 25 September 2008
- Weak Starts Highlight Acute Housing Shortage - 15 September 2008
- New Home Lending at 5 and a half Year Low - 9 September 2008
- Approvals Reinforce Need for 50 Point Cut - 2 September 2008
- No Further Evidence Required for RBA - 29 August 2008
- Housing Report Card, scores a D minus - 19 August 2008
- Affordability Remains at 24 Year Low - 15 August 2008
- Construction industry contracts although strong support from engineering construction - 7 August 2008
- Soft Home Lending Highlights Rate Cut Imperative - 6 August 2008
- RBA concedes rates too high - 5 August 2008
- The Hot and Cold of Building Approvals - 1 August 2008
- Housing Shortage To Get Worse In 2008 - 30 July 2008
- New Home Sales Highlight Urgency of Housing Reform - 28 July 2008
- VET System Failing Residential Construction Industry - 25 July 2008
- THE GEN Y STORY: Living at Home Till Thirty - 24 July 2008
- Monetary Policy Overcooked - 9 July 2008
- Queensland Drags Building Approvals Down in May - 2 July 2008
- Further Weakening For New Home Sales - 1 July 2008
- Weak First Quarter For Housing Starts - 17 June 2008
- Modest Rise for Construction Finance - 10 June 2008
- Better Month For Building Approvals - 3 June 2008
- Flat Start To June Qtr For New Home Sales- 2 June 2008
- Drop In Affordability, Reform Now Urgent - 21 May 2008
- Housing Finance Drops Sharply in March - 12 May 2008
- Building Approvals Confirm Worsening Housing Shortage - 1 May 2008
- Drop In Activity Yet Skills Shortages Remain - 1 May 2008
- Higher Costs Hitting New Home Sales Hard - 30 April 2008
- Downturn In Activity Will Hold Up Prices - 28 April 2008
- Housing Supply Now Of Real Interest - 14 April 2008
- Building Approvals Heading in Wrong Direction - 7 April 2008
- Housing Starts Fail To Recover In 2007 - 19 March 2008
- Interest Rates Bites Into New Home Lending - 11 March 2008
- WA and QLD Lead New Home Sales Higher - 7 March 2008
- Weak Start to 2008 for Building Approvals - 6 March 2008
- Housing Report Highlights Supply Challenges - 21 February 2008
- Supply Measures Will Improve Affordability - 12 February 2008
- Flat End To 2007 For New Home Lending - 11 February 2008
- Building Approvals Plunge at End of 2007 - 5 February 2008
- Higher Rates No Cure - 5 February 2008
- Interest Rates Up, Sales Down - 31 January 2008
- Trade Shortages - Complications and Opportunities - 24 January 2008
- New Home Lending Looking Soft - 16 January 2008
- Weak Detached House Approvals In November - 8 January 2008

