Prices & trends
House and apartment prices, what moves them, and how to read the figures behind the headlines.
NAB now expects Australian capital-city home prices to fall 8% in 2026
National Australia Bank's October Housing Monitor deepens its forecast to an 8% fall this year and about 11% from peak to trough, with a floor in mid-2027.
How to read Australia's official housing price and activity figures
Four official publications measure Australian housing: dwelling values, home loans, building approvals and the Reserve Bank's charts. What each one counts, and what it leaves out.
How to read the consultancies' Dubai market reports, firm by firm
What Knight Frank, CBRE, Cushman & Wakefield Core, Savills and ValuStrat each published on Dubai homes in 2026, how their figures are built, and why they do not match.
How to read Dubai's official property data, from sales to rent indices
What the Dubai Land Department's open data, its Mo'asher sales price index and its rental indices each count, how they are built, and the dates they carry. Index examples are from 2022 and 2023.
How to read Singapore's official home price indices and supply data
What the URA price and rental indices, the vacancy and pipeline tables and the HDB resale price index measure, when each comes out, and what none of them can say.
How to read the weekly US mortgage rate: Freddie Mac's survey and APR
What Freddie Mac's weekly survey of US mortgage rates measures since November 2022, which loans it averages, and how it differs from a lender's quote and from an APR.
How to read US house price measures: FHFA index and Census medians
The FHFA index said US house prices rose 2.6% in a year while the Census median new home price fell 5.8%. What each official measure counts, and why they part.
Zillow: US home values slip in September as pending sales drop 8.5%
Zillow's September report puts the typical US home at US$366,913, down 0.5% in a month, while newly pending sales fell 8.5% on the year with mortgage rates at 7.28%.
Australian home values fall 1.1% in September, a sixth monthly drop
Cotality's Home Value Index puts national home values 5.2% below their March peak after a sixth straight monthly fall, with Darwin the only capital to rise.
Dubai home sales fall 47% by value in the third quarter of 2026
Consultancy Cavendish Maxwell counts AED 72.6 billion of Dubai residential sales across about 34,000 deals from July to September 2026, with value and volume well below a year earlier.
HDB resale flats in Singapore: index slips for a third quarter running
HDB's flash estimate shows a third straight quarterly dip in resale flat prices in Singapore, while sales rose 17.7% and million-dollar deals passed 500 for the first time.
Singapore private home prices rise 1.4% in third-quarter flash estimate
The URA flash estimate for the third quarter of 2026 shows private home prices up 1.4% while sales fell by about 30%. What moved, what did not, and what comes on 23 October.
US condo values up 1% in four years as houses gain 6%, Inman finds
An Inman analysis of Zillow data, published on 5 October, finds condos lagging houses in 91 of 97 large US metros over the past year and taking 73 days to go under contract.
US home prices slipped 0.1% in August as annual growth edged up
Cotality's 6 October release shows US home prices down 0.1% on the month in August. Its text puts the annual rise at 1.8%, its page summary at 1.7%.