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Latest Australian Analysis
- Sep 24 2020
India: Building and Construction in India 2020-2024: September 2020 Update
The construction sector is expected to have fared worse as lockdown measures and consequent supply side issues put a halt on construction work done over Q2 2020. The forecast slower economic recovery...
- Sep 22 2020
Building Construction Chartbook - September 2020
Total building is expected to ease back a further 8% in FY2021 and 2% in FY2022 to $96.66 billion, extending the downturn to four years. This is a longer cycle than previously forecast, predominately...
- Sep 22 2020
Building Industry Prospects September 2020 Bulletin
Total building is expected to ease back a further 8% in FY2021 and 2% in FY2022 to $96.66 billion, extending the downturn to four years. This is a longer cycle than previously forecast, predominately...
- Sep 22 2020
- Sep 22 2020
Melbourne’s Near City and Suburban Office Markets 2020 – 2030
Conditions in Melbourne’s Near City and suburban office markets shifted rapidly from strength to weakness through H1 2020 and H2 is seeing further deterioration, exacerbated by Stage 4 restriction...
- Sep 21 2020
Philippines: Building and Construction in the Philippines 2020-2024: September 2020 Update
As restriction ease, we expect construction work done to ramp up through to the end of the year. A backlog of delayed projects will support the rebound into 2021 (+16.7%) along with an improving econ...
- Sep 21 2020
Taiwan: Building and Construction in Taiwan 2020-2024: September 2020 Update
Construction loans from five major banks rose 14.2% in H1, reflecting strong developers’ and home buyers’ sentiment. The resilient construction sector is attributed to Taiwan’s successful containment...
- Sep 18 2020
Very low interest rates matched by low credit demand
Since the onset of the pandemic, the RBA have taken actions to provide additional liquidity directly to the financial system. They have also sought to lower other benchmark market rates, targeting the...
- Sep 17 2020
Melbourne Commercial Property Prospects 2020-2030
Melbourne’s CBD office market faces a further sharp increase in vacancy rates over the next year, to over 11%. The rental correction, already under way, is expected to be marked and the recovery prot...
- Sep 16 2020
South Korea: Building and Construction in South Korea 2020-2024: September 2020 Update
The COVID-19 hit to South Korea’s construction sector is less severe than that in most other Asian countries. The total value of commencements is expected to contract 9.1% y/y in 2020, an improvement...
Latest Global Analysis
- Sep 24 2020
Emerging markets recovery is very uneven
Emerging markets were hit hard by lockdowns and social distancing but a rebound is under way. By some measures EMs have now caught up with the recovery in the G7, although the rebound is very uneven w...
- Sep 23 2020
Why big fiscal deficits and low inflation can coexist
The surge in government debt caused by ballooning fiscal deficits is a necessary response to the coronavirus crisis. Even if governments fail to meet existing fiscal consolidation plans, which we thin...
- Sep 22 2020
Q3 GDP nowcasts point to a slowing recovery
Machine learning-led GDP nowcasting points to a recovery in Q3, albeit with slowing momentum through the quarter. China might reach pre-crisis levels of growth while the other big five economies still...
- Sep 22 2020
Regional Recovery Trackers point to slowing gains
Capitalizing on our country-specific knowledge and economic modelling expertise, we’ve constructed indexes that measure the pace of recovery for the US, Canada, Latin America, eurozone, Australia, and...
- Sep 21 2020
Coronavirus Watch: Contrasting retail fortunes
The latest data show that retail spending growth in the US and UK is slowing but remains a relative bright spot for both economies in contrast to China. There, retail spending growth is lagging behind...
- Sep 21 2020
Fear of financial crisis stokes business gloom
Global risks remain weighted to the downside, based on our latest bottom-up, scenario-based quantification of economic prospects. We estimate a mean, risk-weighted projection for world GDP that lies a...
- Sep 17 2020
Recovery offers chance to speed clean energy shift
The calamity of coronavirus will be wasted if we don’t seize the opportunity it provides to accelerate the energy transition and reconfigure for sustainability across the economic spectrum.
- Sep 15 2020
Global Risk Survey: Recovery may be longer and slower
Medium-term concerns over the global economy have risen, according to our September 2020 flash survey of risk perceptions. Around one-in-five respondents now judge that the global economy will most l...
- Sep 14 2020
Coronavirus Watch: 2021 GDP forecast down again
As we previously warned, our latest economic forecast contained a downward revision to global GDP growth in 2021. In comparison to a month ago we now expect weaker GDP growth from Q4 2020 through to Q...
- Sep 14 2020
The dollar is correcting, not collapsing
The recent fall in the dollar, which has lost around 7% of its value from a peak earlier this year, in our view reflects an unwinding of a number of short-term dollar positives and a modest deteriorat...
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Engineering Construction in Australia
Engineering Construction in Australia provides the best analysis, insights and forecasts of Australia’s dynamic civil construction market across transport (roads, bridges, railways, harbours), utilities (water, sewerage, electricity, telecommunications), recreation, pipelines and mining and heavy industry construction. Updated quarterly, including an extensive databank, detailed forecasts and project lists.
Building in Australia
A comprehensive overview of the long run Australia residential and non-residential outlook. Includes detailed forecasts by sector, including houses, apartments, offices, retail, warehouses, accommodation, education and health.
Residential Property Prospects 2018-2021
Report contains a three year forecast outlook for median house and unit prices for Australia’s state and territory capital cities and selected regional centres. Analysis and forecasts of key drivers, including economic indicators, migration, population growth and underlying demand and supply are also included.