Australia: Residential property price index to show a robust 2.5% gain in Q4 - Westpac
|Research Team at Westpac expects the ABS to show a robust 2.5% gain in Q4 lifting annual growth back towards 6% as more timely data shows the price acceleration has carried into early 2017 with Sydney and Melbourne leading the way.
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“Note that the ABS residential property price index is more dated than private sector measures but still gains attention due to its 'official' tag. For Q3, it showed a 1.5% lift with annual price growth slowing to 3.5%. In contrast, most private sector measures show a clear quickening in price growth in recent quarters.”
“Private sector measures registered Q4 price moves ranging from 3.5%qtr, 6.7%yr (APM), 1.8%qtr, 3.0%yr (Residex), and 2.1%qtr, 9.9%yr (CoreLogic). The ABS measure tends to track the APM series.”
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