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The August 2026 CPI: Housing Costs by Capital City

Consumer prices rose 4.0% over the year to August 2026 and housing costs 5.7%, from 4.5% in Melbourne to 7.9% in Adelaide. Electricity, new home prices and rents drove the differences between the capitals.

Wednesday October 7, 2026

Housing Inside the CPI: What Rents, New Homes and Power Bills Are Doing

Inflation

Housing Inside the CPI: What Rents, New Homes and Power Bills Are Doing

The CPI housing group rose 5.0% in the year to July 2026, against 3.5% for the CPI as a whole. Rent increases have slowed to 3.6%, the cost of a new home has picked up to 5.7%, electricity bills have...

Thursday September 17, 2026

Employee Households and Pensioner Households: A Decade of Diverging Living Costs

Household Economic Cohort Analysis

Employee Households and Pensioner Households: A Decade of Diverging Living Costs

Over the ten years to June 2026, living costs rose faster than the CPI for three of the four household types the ABS tracks. Employee households had the slowest rise to 2021 and the fastest since, as mortgage interest costs...

Wednesday September 16, 2026

Price Volatility & Risk Assessment

Back to Square One: Real Australian House Prices Have Made No Net Gain Since the 2022 Peak

Newly loaded 56-year BIS data shows nominal Australian house prices are up 18% since their March 2022 peak -- but in CPI-adjusted real terms, the national price level in Q1 2026 is back to almost exactly where it stood before...

Monday August 17, 2026

Demographic Trend Analysis

The Nominal Illusion

Almost two million taxable individuals live in one of 83 LGAs where a decade of nominal income growth becomes flat-to-negative once inflation is applied. An APN LGA Intelligence analysis of a decade of ATO taxation data, CPI-deflated, across all 531...

Tuesday July 14, 2026

The Inflation Stalemate: Deconstructing the RBA’s “Higher for Longer” Base Case

National Insight

The Inflation Stalemate: Deconstructing the RBA’s “Higher for Longer” Base Case

With annual headline inflation falling but core services inflation remaining stubbornly high at ~3.7%-3.9%, the RBA is trapped in an inflation stalemate. This APN Strategic Briefing deconstructs why the market consensus for a rate cut has been pushed out to...

Sunday October 19, 2025

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The August 2026 CPI: Housing Costs by Capital City

Housing Inside the CPI: What Rents, New Homes and Power Bills Are Doing

Employee Households and Pensioner Households: A Decade of Diverging Living Costs

Back to Square One: Real Australian House Prices Have Made No Net Gain Since the 2022 Peak

The Nominal Illusion

The Inflation Stalemate: Deconstructing the RBA’s “Higher for Longer” Base Case

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

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