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Borrowing, Real Incomes, Rents and Building Costs: Four of Martin North’s Claims Tested

APN 22000 Series Claim Test: housing debt relative to income has doubled since 2000 but been flat since 2017; real wages are 3.8% below 2016; new-build costs rose 2.0% in the June quarter as dwelling prices fell 0.7%; and the...

Thursday September 24, 2026

What Is Pushing Up the Cost of Building a House in 2026

Construction Costs & Supply Chain

What Is Pushing Up the Cost of Building a House in 2026

The materials that go into a new house cost 3.8% more in the June quarter 2026 than a year earlier, the fastest annual rise in eleven quarters; in the two years to the December quarter 2025 the figure never went...

Monday September 21, 2026

What Builders Charge Against What Their Materials Cost, State by State

Construction Costs & Supply Chain

What Builders Charge Against What Their Materials Cost, State by State

Since the end of 2020 the materials that go into a new house have risen in price by between 35.2% and 42.7% in every state capital. What builders charge for the finished house has not moved together: 32.1% in Melbourne,...

Monday September 21, 2026

Dating the Supply Decline: Completions Fell Before the Tax Fight, and Starts Have Already Turned

Construction & Development Claim Test

Dating the Supply Decline: Completions Fell Before the Tax Fight, and Starts Have Already Turned

APN 22000 Series National Insight: the Shadow Housing Minister's supply case, tested against the ABS series. Completions fell 18.5% between 2018 and 2021 and have been flat at about 175,000 a year since; commencements rose 16.6% in 2025 and the...

Monday August 31, 2026

Crowded Out: Housing Is Losing the Contest for Australia’s Construction Capacity

Construction & Development Structural Diagnosis

Crowded Out: Housing Is Losing the Contest for Australia’s Construction Capacity

APN 22000 Series National Insight: five years of construction data show housing has been the residual claimant on Australia's building capacity -- engineering up 30%, non-residential building up 22%, residential up 11%. The residential pipeline has doubled in outstanding value...

Sunday August 30, 2026

Investment & Finance Claim Test

The Investor Pullback, Tested Against APN’s Own Data

APN 22000 Series National Insight, companion to Koukoulas' attributed opinion: independently tests the "investors stepping back" claim against APN’s own certified lending data (Node 21610), alongside the current rate, inflation, employment, and construction-cost backdrop.

Friday August 21, 2026

Analysis

The Digital Dilemma: How the Transition’s Fastest-Moving Capital May Be Undermining Its Own Foundation — A Founder’s Analysis

The flow of capital into data centres is the clearest proof that the productive yield thesis holds in practice. But data centres consume the same serviced industrial land and grid connection capacity that advanced manufacturing requires — continuously, at scale,...

Thursday June 4, 2026

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Borrowing, Real Incomes, Rents and Building Costs: Four of Martin North’s Claims Tested

What Is Pushing Up the Cost of Building a House in 2026

What Builders Charge Against What Their Materials Cost, State by State

Dating the Supply Decline: Completions Fell Before the Tax Fight, and Starts Have Already Turned

Crowded Out: Housing Is Losing the Contest for Australia’s Construction Capacity

The Investor Pullback, Tested Against APN’s Own Data

The Digital Dilemma: How the Transition’s Fastest-Moving Capital May Be Undermining Its Own Foundation — A Founder’s Analysis

Degrees by Suburb: Who Holds a University Qualification, by Age, State and Suburb at the 2021 Census

Where University Students Live: Higher Education Students by State and Suburb at the 2021 Census

Government, Catholic and Other Schools: Where School Students Go, by State and Suburb

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