Monday, April 23rd, 2012
The Housing Industry Association (HIA) in association with RP Data released the December 2011 quarter Residential Land Report this week and it made for pretty sobering reading. As the report states, over the past five quarters land sales have bounced around the bottom rather than showing any sign of improvement. ...
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Tuesday, February 7th, 2012
Based on CoreLogic’s House Price Index (HPI), it’s been 69 months since the US housing market peaked. Since the national index for ‘single family combined homes’ reached its high point back in April 2006, US home prices have fallen by 32.8%.
The first three years of US home prices coming down ...
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Thursday, August 4th, 2011
Forestry Tasmania has found new markets in China for whole pulp logs.
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Monday, June 27th, 2011
The local share market has finished more than 1 per cent lower on the back of continued nervousness over Greek debt concerns.
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Friday, June 24th, 2011
Local shares have recovered from earlier losses that were caused by faded optimism over a successful resolution to the Greek debt crisis.
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Wednesday, May 18th, 2011
The Australian share market has closed higher after what has been a volatile day of trading.
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Tuesday, May 17th, 2011
Local shares have bounced back from a weak start to trading, with the mining sector providing a boost to the broader market.
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Saturday, May 14th, 2011
The latest figures from the Real Estate Institute of Western Australia (REIWA) show Perth's property market picked up slightly in the last quarter, but overall sales were still down.
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Wednesday, May 4th, 2011
The Real Estate Institute of the Northern Territory says any initiative that stimulates the housing market is a good thing.
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Tuesday, April 12th, 2011
Local investors moved out of risky assets like shares after news the operator of Japan's crippled nuclear plant upgraded the severity of the disaster to seven, the same level as Chernobyl.
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