As Australia’s total retail sales growth appeared to stall in July, the housing related indices both declined. The Hardware, Building and Garden Supplies industry eased 1.4% compared to th…

Over the year-ending August 2015, the number of people employed in Australia rose 2.0% on a seasonally adjusted basis, reaching 11.765 million people. Feeding into the number of employed pe…

Having risen to prominence over the last several years and riding the housing boom hard, sales of Treated Structural H2F may have ceased growing, succumbing to the pressures affecting domes…

It seems not a month goes by without a significant currency development being reported around the world. China’s devaluation of the Renminbi was the major recent shock and it created a series…

Continuing the conflicting sawn softwood sales data, export sales have averaged 7,610 m3 per month over the year-ending July 2015, down 63.6% from an average 20,918 m3 per month for the year-…

Emphasising the pressures in the Australian market, sales of sawn softwood were down 5% year-ending July 2015, compared with the year-ending July 2014. Over the same period, sawn softwood i…

Perhaps Australia’s largest collective investment and certainly its most discussed market, is residential housing. There are plenty of pundits, commentators and self-interested voice…

Even as housing approvals data confirmed a very strong 13.6% year-on-year growth for the year-ended July 2015, latest information demonstrated that the RBA’s strategy to reduce the risk of…