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Latest Australian Analysis
- Jul 03 2020
Housing market set to become a drag on the economy
COVID-19 has abruptly brought to a halt the recent recovery in the housing market. The economic recession is expected to weigh on prices, which will put a drag on the number of property sales, and wit...
- Jul 02 2020
China: Building and Construction in China 2020-2024: July 2020 Update
Construction delays due to the coronavirus impact, had seen Q1 residential and non-residential floor area completion levels fall significantly across all Chinese cities and provinces. All ongoing sit...
- Jun 30 2020
Sydney Commercial Property Prospects 2020-2030
Fallout from the coronavirus-induced recession is expected to hit the Sydney office market hard. We anticipate a phase of substantial negative net absorption over the next 12 months, leading to sharp...
- Jun 30 2020
The Outlook for Residential Land in Melbourne June 2020
Melbourne’s residential market is suffering from a sharp downturn in underlying demand overall while supply remains elevated. The result is expected to be marked falls in house prices. However, th...
- Jun 30 2020
Brisbane Commercial Property Prospects 2020-2030
2020 is set to be the first of several years of deteriorating leasing market conditions for Brisbane. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on tenant demand near term and a looming wave of new supply a...
- Jun 30 2020
Mining in Australia - June 2020 - Report
The mining investment cycle is continuing to show signs of a rebound, despite the headwinds caused by the coronavirus pandemic and the drop in world oil prices. The after-effects of the Oil and Gas b...
- Jun 30 2020
India: Building and Construction in India 2020-2024: June 2020 Update
Total construction work done (nominal terms) is expected to ease further than anticipated (-7.6% from a previous -2.1%), as the first phase of the lockdown took a larger toll on the economy. Relief me...
- Jun 29 2020
Building In Australia 2020 - Report
It is estimated that the value of total building commencements fell 10% in both FY2019 and FY2020 to $103.62 billion. The contraction has been driven by weaker new residential building. Modest growth...
- Jun 29 2020
- Jun 26 2020
Thailand: Building and Construction in Thailand 2020-2024: June 2020 Update
The coronavirus-induced partial lockdowns and curfews are likely to hit the 2020 construction sector significantly. Curfews were lifted, but the construction sector will still have to manage strict s...
Latest Global Analysis
- Jun 30 2020
Why Q2 GDP is likely to surprise on the upside
Uncertainties about Q2 GDP remain high even as new data is released. This is due to several specific characteristics of the pandemic recession as opposed to those we’ve seen before.
- Jun 30 2020
Why deflation may be a bigger risk than inflation
Concerns about high inflation in the medium term are in our view overdone. In fact, we think the bigger risk is some economies sliding into deflation, due to the coronavirus pandemic’s long-lasting ne...
- Jun 30 2020
Coronavirus Watch: Covid hotspots cloud outlook
The recent downward revision to the IMF’s economic forecast was no surprise given the news flow over the past three months. The IMF now assumes a slightly bigger drop in global GDP in 2020 than our ow...
- Jun 29 2020
Global Risk Survey: Business pessimism easing
Business pessimism has eased for the first time during the pandemic, according to our June 2020 flash survey of risk perceptions. Two-thirds of businesses now expect the global economy to emerge from...
- Jun 29 2020
Global: Government bond yields will remain stuck to the floor
The fallout from the pandemic will cement the trend of safe haven bond yields remaining low over the next five years. Any rises will be gradual and limited. We project bond yields will struggle to get...
- Jun 26 2020
Comprehensive global mapping of Covid-19 vulnerabilities
According to our scorecard, emerging markets are currently afflicted by the highest vulnerabilities to the Covid-19 pandemic. Developed markets are significantly less vulnerable, while frontier market...
- Jun 24 2020
Risk-weighted projections show scale of crisis damage
Unprecedented economic uncertainty has prompted international institutions like the IMF and central banks such as the Bank of England to suspend publication of probabilistic forecasts. By contrast, ou...
- Jun 24 2020
Finding crisis-related outliers in frontier sovereigns
According to our fair-value model, sovereign debt spreads have risen too far since the start of the crisis in El Salvador, Trinidad, Costa Rica, Belarus, and Serbia; and too little in Cote d’Ivoire, P...
- Jun 24 2020
Why the pandemic means lowflation for longer
Although the coronavirus outbreak has the capacity to unleash new inflationary forces on the global economy, it’s also exacerbating the powerful disinflationary trends of the past decade. Overall, we...
- Jun 22 2020
Coronavirus Watch: Second wave is still the key risk
The release of more hard economic data for May provided further evidence that global activity is already rebounding fairly sharply. Still, the path of growth over the next six months or so remains hig...
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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.