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What official data says about the economy, starting with housing: where new homes get stuck between approval and completion.
Mark helped PEXA, Property Exchange Australia, with its reporting as e-conveyancing grew through COVID, and supported equity research on housing, the macro economics behind it and the companies in it.
Housing
Where new homes get stuck between approval and completion, from ABS building data.
2 Oct 2026
The Ceiling: Approving More Has Stopped Building More
Apartment completions have averaged 61,323 a year since 2022 and varied by only 4.5%, while the starts feeding them swung 11.6%.