Housing loans lift as investors step back in Home loans valued $32.56 billion were booked in May, lifting 4.9% on the prior month, as investors flexed financial muscle and lifted the value of t…

Australia’s overhang of uncompleted housing construction activity blew out further in the March quarter, pushing to almost 76,000 dwellings remaining under construction. Directly link…

Australia’s stimulus fuelled, interest rate-supported and pandemic inspired dwelling approvals boom continued in May 2021. Total approvals remained above 20,000 for the third successi…

Recent weeks have seen the Australian dollar start to track down against most major currencies, with the consensus position from most forecasters being that the other forecasters are wrong…

Structural grades of sawn softwood led the weighted average price hikes for local products in the June Quarter, according to latest data reported by producers to FWPA. The price hikes for str…

Over the past month, the FWPA hosted a series of webinars to provide information on the recent turbulence in international timber markets, and how this has been impacting the Australian timb…

Australia’s local sawn softwood sales are within sight of the all-time record, hitting 3.066 million m3 year-ended June 2021. The record of 3.173 million m3 was reached in 2018. But for all th…