residential housing

The Coolabah Capital CIO surveyed the global macro environment and revisited some of his biggest calls in this Rules of Investing interview.

House prices have fallen so many investors might be wondering if it's time to find a bargain. I asked three experts for their insights.

For the first time in more than 12 months, the world recently paused to consider what a higher interest rate might look like. Just over the ditch from us, the Reserve...

With Australia’s economic growth stumbling at its slowest pace since the GFC; our two largest export partners, China and Japan, decelerating and contracting...

In the last three years, Australian houses have gone from boom to bust and now back to boom again. I have written in the past about how crazy the property cycle is,...

As well as the website, morning note and podcast, Livewire has a YouTube channel. This has taken on a life of its own, with subscribers more than quadrupling to 25,000...

Negative bond yields, Trump’s Trade War, and protests in Hong Kong have stolen all the headlines in recent months, but (relatively) quietly, a bottom has been forming...

Despite the natural desire to break down the housing market into soundbites and neat changes in median prices, sub-markets remain just as fractured and diverse as they...

The CBA has had the highest level of home loan applications in the last week it has had for the last six months. This is a Corelogic chart showing the 'election...

On Tuesday the ABS released December quarter property price data revealing that established house prices across the nation's capitals fell by 5.5% throughout 2018,...

Let's take a step back from the monthly housing data and ask ourselves: What's happening in the market and are we seeing a bottom in prices - or are there further...

We asked our portfolio managers to share their views on potential surprises for 2019 which on balance of probabilities are unlikely to happen but shouldn’t be written...

Can we summarise the Foreign Investment Review Board (FIRB) Annual Report in 60 seconds? Sure, why not? The number of residential approvals to foreign buyers has been...

In early 2018 I wrote on Livewire that the year ahead would be a mixed bag for housing, as tightness in markets like Hobart contrasted the negative outlook for Sydney,...

Australian bond yields declined rapidly over the December quarter, anticipating a major slowdown in the Australian and global economy. Real estate has a correlation to...

With the housing market continuing to make news, we examine nationwide house prices relative to changes in income, lending rates and a measure called ‘hypothetical...

Sydney property prices are now off more than 10% according to Corelogic data. While painful for property owners and investors, the effects go far wider than that....

What would you nominate as the single biggest risk to the local stock market right now? In an interview at a recent event held by IRESS and Livewire, we asked Brad...

A year ago, the property boom was showing signs of fading and we expected property prices to fall in Sydney and Melbourne by around 5-10%. Home prices were overvalued,...