The following trade update has been supplied by IndustryEdge from its online platform, Wood Market Edge online. All the data used and referred to here is available for download by IndustryEd…

Annual sales of domestically produced sawn softwood products continued to soften in August, moderating to 3.066 million m3, down 4.8% on year-ended August sales in 2022. Treated Structura…

Australia’s system of housing finance may not be as ‘fit for purpose’ as we have long thought. Fuelled by decades of near unabated housing price improvements and a decade of historically low i…

There are few topics more likely to garner an opinion than the affordability of housing in Australia. Almost no one offers a view housing is affordable, but there are no end of people prepared t…

Australia’s residential dwelling approvals continue to step down, hitting 194,043 year-ended August, down 15.4% on the prior year. An increase on July of 28.1% to 17,497 approvals in Augus…

Ahead of all else right now, the global economy is concerned about inflation, which has triggered successive rounds of efforts to rein in expenditure by the tried and eventually true mechani…

Australia’s June quarter GDP released in September, continued to show solid recovery from the COVID 19 pandemic was a solid 0.9%, with quarterly seasonally adjusted growth of +0.9% with com…