Australia’s long run of growth in expenditure on Alterations & Additions peaked in the second quarter of 2017, when it reached an annualized AUD8.765 billion, since which it has declin…

Average house prices are falling across Australia as the super-heated domestic property market really cools. Nationally, in the March quarter, average prices were still 2.0% higher than a…

Forecasts of treated structural pine sales in the March quarter were exactly consistent with actual sales, which totalled 194,390 m3. The forecast was an irrelevant 69 m3 (one large truck) d…

buLittle more than six months on from the closure of the Morwell sawmill, domestic sales of sawn softwood are higher, and have recovered some ground, at least on an annualized basis. For the ye…

Australia’s housing market continues to shift across states, like the State of Origin title, with more than a few surprises cropping up in recent times. One of the most interesting is the spee…

Australia’s annual economic growth was 3.1% for the year-ended March, its highest level in two years, and for the March Quarter, growth of 1.0% was the strongest quarter since the December qu…