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Three tools, built on real government and market data — never estimates. Start with an area, a single address, or what councils are approving right now.
Credit is loosening. Buyers aren't paying up.
Building moves in a fixed order: rates, then lending, then what buyers actually pay on the day, then approvals, then starts, then finished homes. Read in that order, the chain today is split at the front — money is available, but fewer than a third of properties are selling at auction.
Why the order matters
Finance is arranged before a job is approved, approved before it starts, started before it finishes. So when a signal near the front of the chain turns and one behind it hasn't, the one behind it is next.
The lags are rules of thumb about that sequence, not predictions: lending leads approvals by roughly 2–3 quarters, clearance leads price by 1–2, starts lead completions by 4–6. A chain can stall halfway, which is why the position is read from what the signals show rather than projected forward.
A third of what it was a year ago
The share of auctioned homes that actually sell. It turns before prices do, which makes it the earliest honest read on demand.
What this means
At 30.8%, roughly two in three properties taken to auction don't sell on the day. A year ago it was 53.6%. Clearance jumps around week to week, so the trend matters more than any single reading — and it has been under 35% since May.
Cut through 2025, then put back
The driver at the top of the chain. Everything else responds to it, with a lag measured in quarters.
What this means
Rates fell from 4.35% to 3.60% across 2025, then were lifted back to 4.35% through the first half of 2026 and held there since August. Lending is still expanding despite that — which is exactly the split at the front of the chain.
The pipeline is still filling
Every home councils approved, month by month. This is the supply that arrives in one to two years.
What this means
Approvals have trended up over three years and sit near 18,700 a month. The deep dips are January each year — the industry shuts down, not a collapse in demand. Read the run of months, never one month against the last.
More started than finished
Homes begun against homes finished each quarter. When the gap opens, work is banking up on sites rather than reaching the market.
What this means
Starts have run ahead of completions for five quarters. That's 243,864 homes under construction right now — supply already committed, which lands regardless of what demand does next.
Sources: RBA cash rate decisions · ABS building approvals and building activity · Queensland auction results, week ending 12 Sep 2026. On the live site these read from the data directly and never go stale.
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