Do you recognise bicycle riders as legitimate road users? Cycling accounts for 1% of daily trips in Australia and the main barrier to greater uptake seems to be the widespread concern about safety. Urban Melbourne looks at the challenges of boosting the numbers of people travelling by bike. ...
Total housing lending rose 0.63% seasonally adjusted to a new record of $1.49 trillion, of which $1.38 trillion sits with the banks. Martin North of Digital Finance Analytics reports on current housing finance data and analyses the ABS results for August. ...
What is the median house price for Melbourne? Figures released this month by research house RP Data show Melbourne’s property market is leading the charge over the rest of the country for the September quarter. In this week's property market wrap Peter Sarmas analyses our current property market. ...
If you are an owner of a building asset adjacent to a big development, should you worry? In this week’s property market update we find out if the construction works will affect your asset beyond the obvious inconvenience during construction. We also talk out about the newly created body 'Infrastructure Victoria' and how it will affect Melbourne. ...
Nationally, the number of listed properties climbed to 339,026 in September 2015. The Melbourne result was interesting in that there was barely any movement at all in listings in September and that stock for sale was well down on this time last year. Louis Christopher analyses the National property listings and asking prices and reports on Melbourne's property market. ...
What is causing the continued negative household confidence sentiment? Martin North analyses results derived from household surveys, averaged across Australia. Included are detailed questions covering various aspects of a household’s financial footprint. The index measures how households are feeling about their financial health. ...