Population
Australia was mostly settled by European migrants at least until World War II. The population reached 7.6 million in 1947 and doubled by 1979. At 30 June 1997, the resident population of Australia was estimated to be 18.5 million people.
Population projections prepared by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, using various assumptions of future fertility, mortality and overseas migration levels, estimate that the population will increase to between 22.1 and 23.1 million, and to between 24.9 and 26.4 million in 2051.
Date
December 11, 2013 - 11:41AM
From Sydney Morning Herald
In Shanghai, Domain Prestige Property Reporter Lucy Macken says Australia's a breath of fresh
Residents wearing face masks use their mobile phones on a pedestrian overpass on a hazy day at the Pudong financial area in Shanghai, December 6, 2013. Photo: Aly Song /Reuters.
On the weekend China's air quality records were smashed with pollution at more than eight times the nation's limit, Australia seemed to offer more than just a good education, a decent capital return and lots of waterfront real estate.
"Fresh air is a luxury," said Monika Tu, of Black Diamondz Real Estate.
"No matter how rich you are in China, you still breathe the same air. So if money really can buy anything, who wouldn't want something overseas to go to every now and then?"
For the Sydney agents in town to sell some of our best real estate to the Chinese at the Shanghai Luxury Properties Showcase, the timing couldn't have been better.
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Contrasting against the dense smog over Shanghai, where the new record is now at 602.5 micrograms per cubic metre, are the glossy marketing images of Sydney's prime waterfront real estate, all with clear blue skies.
"We know Australia is very healthy and the environment is protected and that is important to us," said one would-be buyer Jack Yin, head of property development firm Brandmont, based in Hebei.
"This is a serious air pollution problem. It used to just be Beijing and parts of the north west that got this bad, but this sort of pollution is new to Shanghai."
Britta Battogtokh, who is last year's winner of Miss Mongolia and director of international relations at one of Mongolia's largest construction companies ECC Construction, said Mongolia's air pollution problem is just as bad as China's during the winter months, November to March.
Ms Battogtokh is in Shanghai on behalf of the Mongolian Government and a few high net worth clients to look at off-shore investment opportunities that will also specifically offer families a place to retreat to from the pollution in winter.
"These investments aren't for emigration purposes. Our pollution problem is so bad , these clients want to send their family away during winter so they don't get sick."
Lucy Macken flew to Shanghai courtesy of Black Diamondz Real Estate. 作者: sweety888888 时间: 12-12-2013 07:40
Sydney's an easy sell for the Chinese
December 11, 2013 -
From Sydney Morning Herald
In Shanghai, Domain Prestige Property Reporter Lucy Macken says Australia's a breath of fresh air
Residents wearing face masks use their mobile phones on a pedestrian overpass on a hazy day at the Pudong financial area in Shanghai, December 6, 2013. Photo: Aly Song /Reuters.
On the weekend China's air quality records were smashed with pollution at more than eight times the nation's limit, Australia seemed to offer more than just a good education, a decent capital return and lots of waterfront real estate.
"Fresh air is a luxury," said Monika Tu, of Black Diamondz Real Estate.
"No matter how rich you are in China, you still breathe the same air. So if money really can buy anything, who wouldn't want something overseas to go to every now and then?"
For the Sydney agents in town to sell some of our best real estate to the Chinese at the Shanghai Luxury Properties Showcase, the timing couldn't have been better.
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Contrasting against the dense smog over Shanghai, where the new record is now at 602.5 micrograms per cubic metre, are the glossy marketing images of Sydney's prime waterfront real estate, all with clear blue skies.
"We know Australia is very healthy and the environment is protected and that is important to us," said one would-be buyer Jack Yin, head of property development firm Brandmont, based in Hebei.
"This is a serious air pollution problem. It used to just be Beijing and parts of the north west that got this bad, but this sort of pollution is new to Shanghai."
Britta Battogtokh, who is last year's winner of Miss Mongolia and director of international relations at one of Mongolia's largest construction companies ECC Construction, said Mongolia's air pollution problem is just as bad as China's during the winter months, November to March.
Ms Battogtokh is in Shanghai on behalf of the Mongolian Government and a few high net worth clients to look at off-shore investment opportunities that will also specifically offer families a place to retreat to from the pollution in winter.
"These investments aren't for emigration purposes. Our pollution problem is so bad , these clients want to send their family away during winter so they don't get sick."
今年实行的低利率肯定帮助了悉尼住房市场的发展，尽管国家经济表现仍喜忧参半，储备银行Reserve Bank,在其定期举行的墨尔本赛马会时，仍决定保持11月的利率不变。然而，降息的可能性依然存在，特别是如果失业率继续上升的话。上个月新南威尔士州的失业率达到了5.9% ,令人非常不安。作者: sweety888888 时间: 27-12-2013 19:08
Fact Checkers are sent off on a wild goose chase
Date
December 20, 2013
From SMH
What a crazy, zany property year it has been. Early on, Aussie trophies such as Altona and the ‘Bang and Olufsen’ house went to Chinese interests – for $52 million and $33.5 million apiece no less.
Perhaps that’s what fired up the property market this year? All those rich Chinese, armed with their $5 million Significant Investor Visas, wanting Sydney property. A harbour view would be nice, but these invaders would be just as happy if you had an 8 in your house number, or you were on a big block near a posh school. No matter if it was an old house, they’d just knock it down and build a brand new one.
By the Queen’s Birthday Weekend in June, after everyone had the stylists through to make sure their homes had the right feng shui, the Sydney auction market roared back to life. Auction clearance rates of 80 per cent, every weekend just about. Nothing to do with the lowest interest rates since the 1950s, of course.
Harbourside splurge: Elton John (bottom right) once had his eye on the Bang and Olufsen house at Point Piper, which Bruce McWilliam (top right) has sold for $33 million. Photo: Tim Mooney (main photo), Mal Fairclough, Andrew Quilty
Or the need to upgrade. The market had been dead as a doornail, everyone had had kids and were exploding out of their tiny flats and terraces, and they were just itching to find something bigger.
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Not to mention the investors, switching to bricks and mortar, knocking out first-timers at auctions. They were armed with their self-managed super funds. People started talking about booms and bubbles and the headline writers got terribly excited.
On election day on September 7, when there were just 215 auctions because sellers got spooked thinking the buyers would be voting, the clearance rate was 87.6 per cent. It was one of the highest clearance rates on record.
Now there was no stopping the property market. Listings had been few and far between in the first half, but now everyone wanted to sell: the big 600-auction days of September became 900 by November, as buyers became sellers of their redundant properties.
Then, just 11 days before Christmas, the biggest auction day ever of almost 1000 auctions and 300 more this Saturday.
Ludicrous.
But not quite so ludicrous as the ABC’s so-called ‘‘Fact Check’’ service, which reckons it has found the real reason for all this property-buying nonsense. And it’s nothing to do with pent-up demand or low interest rates – or the Chinese.
No, it was everything to do with the devious auction clearance rates methods of Australian Property Monitors, owned by Fairfax Media. Those dastardly analysts were cooking the books, or, the Fact Checker said, ‘‘fudging the figures’’ with its auction results reporting.
The Fact Checkers revelation was that, surprise surprise, the APM team had failed to collect 100 per cent of the results from agents by Saturday night and based their clearance rates on a mere 70 per cent! The scoundrels!
Never mind that APM has used the same methodology for decades, through booms and busts. And others, such as RP Data and real estate institutes used exactly the same clearance rate methodology. Or that election voting intentions are decided on polls of about 1000 people from 23 million.
The fact checkers – and the ABC News editors who thought the findings so worthy that they made the headlines last Sunday night – swallowed hook, line and sinker the crazy ramblings of an Aquasia credit strategist called Mark Bayley.
This Mr Bayley has been venting his spleen for a month now in articles in the Australian Financial Review: ‘‘Buyers at risk from misleading clearance figures’’; ‘‘Lies, damned lies’’ and ‘‘1438 auctions missing: Sydney’s Impossible Property Search’’.
He thinks all this dodgy stuff had ‘‘the ability to panic buyers into the market’’.
What’s Mr Bayley’s proposed solution to all this? That the clearance rate should be based on an assumption: all of the unreported results are properties that didn’t sell.
So, for example, rather than the 76.1 per cent from the 636 results that APM knew about on Saturday, the true rate, he says, was ‘‘a dim 51.2 per cent’’ from the 995 scheduled auctions.
Now you’d expect the ABC ‘‘Fact Check’’ service to come down hard on that kind of methodology. That truly would be ‘‘‘fudging the figures’’. But instead of inquiring into that wisdom, ‘‘Fact Check’’ chose to condemn the data provider – specifically APM.
When the market is acting crazy, independent data providers are an essential tool for buyers and sellers wanting to make sane decisions. APM’s clearance rate isn’t perfect, but it’s the best measure we have. We’d all love to have a complete data set to work with, but if we waited for that we’d end up with no independent analysis of auctions on weekends beyond agent hype. I’ll stick with APM’s usual sample of about 70 per cent of the results, thanks. P作者: kevinwei2005 时间: 27-12-2013 20:21
贝尔德则表示，这块土地的释放说明了房地产市场正在前进。“这对整体经济而言都是个好消息……这对首置业者来说是好消息，很显然对于任何今天打算买房的人来说也是一则喜讯。”他称，首置业者领取的新屋置业补贴在2013年猛增80%，“进步不小”。 作者: sweety888888 时间: 3-1-2014 06:35
Bumper Sydney property market
2/1/214 from SMH website
Sydney led the nation’s median home value growth in 2013 after recording an annual growth of 14.5 per cent, the latest RP Data-Rismark data shows.
This was followed by Perth and Melbourne, where values increased by 9.9 per cent and 8.5 per cent respectively, according to figures released on Thursday.
Senior research analyst at RP Data Cameron Kusher attributed the strong capital growth to cuts to the cash rate and investors returning to the Melbourne and Sydney markets.
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“The combination of lower interest rates and the fact that property has become a little bit more affordable has lured buyers back into the market,” he said.
“From an investor’s perspective, the returns that they’re getting in other asset classes are not as strong as those that have been available in property over the last 12 to 18 months.”
Mr Kusher said that it was activity in the middle and prestige markets that fuelled the price increase.
“The [Sydney] middle market has seen values rise by 15.3 per cent over the year and the top-end of the market has seen value growth of 15 per cent,” he said.
“In Melbourne, the middle market was up 8.3 per cent over the year and the most expensive sector was up 7.9 per cent.”
Head of residential at LJ Hooker Christopher Mourd said the key factor driving growth in Perth was a lack of stock.
“There is a key supply and demand issue over there,” he said.
“They’ve found it challenging to get quality properties to market right across the board throughout the year – it certainly got tougher heading to Christmas.
“One of the key fundamentals is that people have had to pay [more] if they wanted to secure the right home.”
Across the country, median dwelling values increased 9.8 per cent, which was the strongest annual growth since 2009, according to Mr Kusher.
Last year, values increased in each capital city housing market, 5.1 per cent in Brisbane and 3.5 per cent in Canberra.
Hobart and Adelaide have been the worst performers over the same period with values rising by 2.2 per cent and 2.8 per cent respectively.
Mr Kusher said the results were not startling given the previous successive years in which home values fell.
“Although home values increased by 9.8 per cent in 2013 the growth follows a 3.8 per cent annual fall in values in 2011 and a further 0.4 per cent annual fall in 2012,” he said.
“Cumulatively, from peak to trough, capital city dwelling values were down 7.7 per cent prior to this current growth cycle.”
Mr Kusher said while capital growth in the Melbourne and Sydney markets have been strong, yields were weakening.
“Next year, [investors] will start looking in markets like Brisbane and potentially Adelaide, which haven’t yet had the same level of capital growth and obviously a lot more affordable to purchase than Sydney and Melbourne,” he said.
Senior manager at BIS Shrapnel, Angie Zigomanis, expects growth prospects to be mixed across the country in 2014.
“Sydney will see solid growth, might be more the 5 to 6 per cent range rather than the double digits,” he said.
Meanwhile Melbourne is expected for weaker growth due to local economic factors such as the prospect of Holden closing down.
Century 21 Australia chairman Charles Tarbey said downsizers and investors would be driving the Brisbane market in 2014.
”If they’re looking for an investment, they’ve now got equity in their homes in Sydney, sufficient enough to buy an investment in Brisbane,” he said.
“Anybody who is retiring and wanting to downsize can sell in Sydney, go to Brisbane, get the same home, and get a few hundred thousand dollars cash left over.”
Mr Tarbey expects property prices to be more stable in 2014 with more negotiations between vendors and buyers.
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Bumper Sydney property market
2/1/2014 from SMH website
Sydney led the nation’s median home value growth in 2013 after recording an annual growth of 14.5 per cent, the latest RP Data-Rismark data shows.
This was followed by Perth and Melbourne, where values increased by 9.9 per cent and 8.5 per cent respectively, according to figures released on Thursday.
Senior research analyst at RP Data Cameron Kusher attributed the strong capital growth to cuts to the cash rate and investors returning to the Melbourne and Sydney markets.
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“The combination of lower interest rates and the fact that property has become a little bit more affordable has lured buyers back into the market,” he said.
“From an investor’s perspective, the returns that they’re getting in other asset classes are not as strong as those that have been available in property over the last 12 to 18 months.”
Mr Kusher said that it was activity in the middle and prestige markets that fuelled the price increase.
“The [Sydney] middle market has seen values rise by 15.3 per cent over the year and the top-end of the market has seen value growth of 15 per cent,” he said.
“In Melbourne, the middle market was up 8.3 per cent over the year and the most expensive sector was up 7.9 per cent.”
Head of residential at LJ Hooker Christopher Mourd said the key factor driving growth in Perth was a lack of stock.
“There is a key supply and demand issue over there,” he said.
“They’ve found it challenging to get quality properties to market right across the board throughout the year – it certainly got tougher heading to Christmas.
“One of the key fundamentals is that people have had to pay [more] if they wanted to secure the right home.”
Across the country, median dwelling values increased 9.8 per cent, which was the strongest annual growth since 2009, according to Mr Kusher.
Last year, values increased in each capital city housing market, 5.1 per cent in Brisbane and 3.5 per cent in Canberra.
Hobart and Adelaide have been the worst performers over the same period with values rising by 2.2 per cent and 2.8 per cent respectively.
Mr Kusher said the results were not startling given the previous successive years in which home values fell.
“Although home values increased by 9.8 per cent in 2013 the growth follows a 3.8 per cent annual fall in values in 2011 and a further 0.4 per cent annual fall in 2012,” he said.
“Cumulatively, from peak to trough, capital city dwelling values were down 7.7 per cent prior to this current growth cycle.”
Mr Kusher said while capital growth in the Melbourne and Sydney markets have been strong, yields were weakening.
“Next year, [investors] will start looking in markets like Brisbane and potentially Adelaide, which haven’t yet had the same level of capital growth and obviously a lot more affordable to purchase than Sydney and Melbourne,” he said.
Senior manager at BIS Shrapnel, Angie Zigomanis, expects growth prospects to be mixed across the country in 2014.
“Sydney will see solid growth, might be more the 5 to 6 per cent range rather than the double digits,” he said.
Meanwhile Melbourne is expected for weaker growth due to local economic factors such as the prospect of Holden closing down.
Century 21 Australia chairman Charles Tarbey said downsizers and investors would be driving the Brisbane market in 2014.
”If they’re looking for an investment, they’ve now got equity in their homes in Sydney, sufficient enough to buy an investment in Brisbane,” he said.
“Anybody who is retiring and wanting to downsize can sell in Sydney, go to Brisbane, get the same home, and get a few hundred thousand dollars cash left over.”
Mr Tarbey expects property prices to be more stable in 2014 with more negotiations between vendors and buyers.
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澳房价涨幅达4年之最 悉尼猛增14.5%
2014-01-02| 12:30| 来源：网摘
据ABC报道，澳洲房价在12月份延续强势，使2013年成为澳洲4年内房价增幅最大的年份。
RP Data的房屋价值指数显示，澳洲州府城市房价去年平均上升9.8%，录得自2009年以来的最大涨幅。2009年，澳洲州府城市房价增幅为13.7%。然而，乡村地区房价在去年仅仅上涨1.4%。
