Housing supply falls below demand in all states but WA

The Urban Development Institute of Australia's inaugural Housing Index fell four points to 93.5 in the March 2024 quarter, its lowest since September 2020 and 8 per cent below average. Western Australia scored 112, Victoria 86, NSW 93 and the Northern Territory 27, said UDIA president Max Shifman.

As I told the Australian Financial Review: “You have all these different numbers and indices that mean different things, so we wanted to come up with a quantitative way to measure general trends at a national level and then break it down across the states,”

I also said: “On a quarterly basis we can show how things are going nationally and which states are performing and which are not,”

Housing supply falls below demand in all states but WA

Australian Financial Review, 23 May 2024Read the full article