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Our new ResRadar service helps subscribers understand the fundamentals driving residential markets and their impacts. The enhanced dashboard, timely reports, and associated databanks help make better investment decisions by examining the point in the residential market in each city and further movement, as well as identifying differences in the cycles across cities with high granularity.

This report provides the results of our economic modelling of TikTok’s economic contribution to the Australian economy, as well as the findings of survey research into TikTok’s users and Australian businesses. It looks at the real world impacts users report as well as the diversity of TikTok’s online communities.

The focus on green office buildings and sustainability is being driven by both government targets to achieve net zero and increasing corporate and investor focus on environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) considerations and compliance.

The combined capital city median all-dwelling price reached $946,000 in December quarter 2023 (+7% y/y). Resilient demand (backed by strong population growth), alongside low listing inventory helped generate competition and price growth. Momentum has been sustained into 2024, with 1.5% q/q growth estimated for Q1.

It was fantastic to welcome our esteemed clients and guests to our economic forecasting conference in Sydney, Melbourne and online.

The Australian construction sector is facing a challenging period as costs and capacity constrain activity levels.

The run up in interest rates has provided a drag for all asset classes, but other cyclical and structural drivers are becoming more prominent in determining performance.

The Australian economy is enduring a policy-induced slowdown.  Entering 2024, both fiscal and monetary policy are at or close to the peak drag they will impose on the economy in this cycle.

We’ve taken stock of Australia’s journey towards net zero and the good news is that emissions are dropping. The bad news is that emissions aren’t dropping fast enough.

Calendar 2024 marks a turning point in the construction and infrastructure industry in Australia, with total construction work done expected to fall in real terms through the year for the first time since 2020.

Oxford Economics Australia was engaged by the Property Council of Australia to undertake a study into the economic importance of the industrial and logistics sector in Australia by quantifying the value of goods flowing through industrial assets. Our work estimated that $1.2 trillion worth of goods flowed through industrial assets in FY22.

The focus on green office buildings and sustainability is being driven by both government targets to achieve net zero and increasing corporate and investor focus on environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) considerations and compliance.

Using alternative and proprietary data, Oxford Economics have developed a unique Multi-Factor Bond Scorecard to help Asset Managers identify more opportunities in fixed income markets. During a recent macro roundtable, Javier Corominas, Director of Global Macro Strategy, explained why his team were maintaining a heavy overweight on NZ Bonds.

We expect that demand for energy transition-related critical minerals will grow significantly in the next decades even in the absence of rapid progress required to achieve net zero.

Engineering Construction in Australian Executive Summary

Calendar 2024 marks a turning point in the construction and infrastructure industry in Australia, with total construction work done expected to fall in real terms through the year for the first time since 2020.

Proposing to introduce a New Vehicle Efficiency Standard can hardly be a bad thing – particularly when you’re the last developed country except for Russia to do so

A pipeline of major projects (contract value at or above $50 million) totalling $15.4 billion nationally is expected to break ground in calendar year 2024

Chinese outbound travel is well on the path to recovery. Domestic travel recovered to pre-pandemic levels in 2023 and we expect growth to continue in line with continued consumer demand.

With goods price disinflation now well and truly entrenched, upside risks to the inflation outlook lie with services components. Services inflation peaked at a lower level than goods inflation, but the upswing was
more protracted, with services only starting to decline in y/y terms in Q2 2023.