Digital Finance Analytics (DFA) Blog

Home prices are continuing to fall across Australia, with stale listings growing, and auction clearance rates in the gutter. Yesterday Tarric Brooker and I discussed the early months of the falls across Australia, and noted that things seem to be mirroring the early months of the New Zealand Property market, which nearly five years later …

Another deep dive on things economic, housing and political, with journalist Tarric Brooker, and his slides. We discuss the housing market, Government spending and the impact of the middle east conflict on inflation and rate policy. You can find his charts here: https://x.com/AvidCommentator/status/2110609912804134993 0:00 Economic outlook and housing3:38 Revenue and fiscal poli...

This week the IMF published their latest World Economic Outlook report, titled Resilience Under Strain, Urgent Choices. They say that in less than seven years, the global economy has been subjected to an exceptional sequence of events. Yet, despite this barrage of shocks, the global economy has held up better than expected, thanks to first, …

In this edit of my live show we dived into the latest from our surveys and models, to spot where financial pressure on households is building. We looked at nominated post codes to examine the dynamics on the ground. 0:00 Introduction3:28 Economic environment7:19 Household financial pressure10:18 Market outlook12:21 Scenario modeling19:43 Stress metrics22:24 Aggregate stress data...

This week our property insider Edwin Almeida goes to town on the drivers of the current property market declines. Given the broad falls we are seeing, are real estate agents part of the problem? 0:00 State of the market3:28 Migration and education8:48 Mortgage stress and rates11:51 First home buyers and housing17:13 Economic and inflationary impact21:52 …