Expert Advice with Tyron Hyde
The housing market can look forward to an “optimistic” year ahead, after the new home building industry recorded growth in sales, according to the Housing Industry Association (HIA).
Over the three months to November 2019, the sales of private detached homes were 2.8% higher than in the previous quarter. This came after nearly two years of declining home sales as the market retreated from a record high.
Western Australia recorded the biggest growth in new home sales at 14.4%, followed by Queensland at 2% and Victoria at 1.6%.
On the other hand, sales of detached houses in NSW and South Australia declined over the same period, by 0.5% and 2.5% respectively.
“The residential building industry can be optimistic that activity will stabilise in 2020 after sustaining two years of fairly sharp decline,” said Diwa Hopkins, an economist at the HIA.
Despite the recorded uptick, however, the latest three-month sales in November remain 5.7% lower than in the preceding year.
Hopkins said the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority’s withdrawal of the 10% cap on investor lending growth and removal of the limits on interest-only loans, coupled with the series of rate cuts by the Reserve Bank of Australia, helped ease the deteriorating housing market conditions.
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