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Today our chart shows the number of dwellings approved, but not yet started. It is one of those rare property charts where, if the lines go down, it is a good thing. At present, some 9,500 …

What does the future hold? For mine demographics shape almost everything. Future demographic shape If that is true, what does Australia’s demographic shape look like over the next decade? The first table shows that baby boomers, …

Density must be off-set. That’s a good yardstick.  The chummier our homes – think apartments – the bigger and better the outside space needs to be. Brisbane is planning to become a very urban city, with many more …

A change in population is dependent on three things: Natural increase – in short, births versus deaths. Net internal migration – this means movements within the country, including interstate moves but also movements within the same …

Here is my summary of ten things I think you should know about the Sunshine Coast. 1. The Sunshine Coast Regional Council holds 312,000 permanent residents and is growing by 8,000 new inhabitants per annum.  If you …

Here’s a quick summary of the Australian economy (well the one that really matters).  Let’s call it 10 Things: The Economy. 1. Working longer hours for less pay per hour. 2. Stuff all wage growth, which is …

1. Most of Ipswich’s housing types are in the recovery phase of the property cycle.  All should peak sometime over the next 12 to 18 months. 2. Sales volumes have more than doubled in the last five …

In a recent book physicist Geoffrey West has shown that there are both economies of scale (in infrastructure) and increasing returns to scale (in human creativity) from the process of urbanisation. In his words: “Cities are … the …

We know that the number and proportion of unoccupied homes across Australia is increasing.  The latest national count found that 11.2% – or about one million – of our private dwellings were empty at this time …