Furious Fridays

Market Update

Today’s episode is a Market Update and we look at a few of the factors that affect our market. We will discuss why these things matter, and why we are in the state we are in!

In this episode we discuss:

  1. Consumer confidence – Look at the savings ratios
  2. Business Confidence – what factors are affecting it and what this means for the economy.
  3. Australian Wages and labour – Unemployment and underemployment and how it is correlated with difficulty finding labour
  4. Housing Market – House process going through a bit of a down cycle – We run through the Supply to demand ratio – And also look at the homes vs apartment market.

Also, here are the graphs that we discussed:

Australian House Savings Ratio

 

Labour under utilisation and labour constraints

 

Australian House Prices

 

Dwellings under construction v annual population change

 

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