Sales of locally produced sawn softwood totalled 3.134 million m3 year-ended March 2022, very close to the theoretical capacity of around 3.2 million m3 per annum. In March, monthly sales li…

Housing loan values lifted 1.6% in March to reach $33.28 billion, up 11.1% on the prior year. The solid position of housing loans confirms the pipeline of work, with approvals typically prece…

Largely as expected, Australia’s dwelling approvals continued to soften in March. The month-on-month decline for the month was a large 18.5%, although approvals of free-standing houses d…

Latest data confirms the size of the Australian building pipeline at the end of 2021, and some unpublished data demonstrates house completion times have pushed out as a result. Houses ‘Under…

Australia’s annual inflation rate rocketed to an annualised 5.1% year-ended March 2022, prompting an inevitable interest rate move of 0.25% just weeks later. Meantime, in the midst of the e…