Primara Research @primaraau.bsky.social · 15/10/2026WA homes are filling five times faster than any other state. People per dwelling jumped 0.178 since mid-2018, the steepest shift in the country. NSW and Victoria went backwards. 100 0
Primara Research @primaraau.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Mortgage repayments now consume a bigger share of income in every Australian capital city than they did in 1990 when rates hit 17%. Sydney borrowers are spending 66% of median income on repayments. 100 0
Primara Research @primaraau.bsky.social · 30/09/2026In 6 of 8 Australian capitals, mortgage repayments now consume the same share of income as they did in 1990 when rates hit 17.5%. Except rates are now 4.6%. The difference: loans are 10-13 times larger, incomes only 3-4 times higher. 100 0
Primara Research @primaraau.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The same $4,093 monthly mortgage repayment now borrows $335,000 less than five years ago. Interest rates have more than doubled while house prices climbed 41%. 100 0
Primara Research @primaraau.bsky.social · 28/09/2026First home buyer lending grew 3.3% in the past year versus 1.9% for the rest of the market. First time in two years they've gained ground. But the real story is the $50,000 bigger average loan. 100 0
Primara Research @primaraau.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Australia's beauty therapy workforce surged 64% in a decade. Yet shortages have only deepened. The industry grew 12% in one year alone, 8x faster than the broader economy. 100 0
Primara Research @primaraau.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Diesel prices up 30% in six months. Australia's 3.2 million diesel utes and vans have almost no electric alternative: just 948 registered. That's a $3.5 billion annual hit to the fleet. 100 0
Primara Research @primaraau.bsky.social · 24/09/202690% of household spending growth is now discretionary, while essentials grew just 0.5% real. Three rate rises in and Australians are still splashing out on recreation and transport. 100 0
Primara Research @primaraau.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Australian household property wealth fell $34.0 billion in June quarter. First decline in four years. The forecast $1.3 trillion hit has begun. 100 0
Primara Research @primaraau.bsky.social · 23/09/2026NSW and Victoria lost $133.6 billion in property wealth in June quarter alone. Meanwhile five other states hit record average dwelling prices in the same period. Australia's housing market is now two completely separate economies. 100 0
Primara Research @primaraau.bsky.social · 18/09/2026A forecast housing downturn could strip $120,000 from the average Australian household's property wealth. The deepest hit to household net worth since the Global Financial Crisis. 100 0
Primara Research @primaraau.bsky.social · 17/09/2026China has overtaken Japan as Australia's largest car supplier for the first time on record. July 2026 saw $11.9 billion in Chinese imports against $11.2 billion from Japan across 302 rolling twelve-month periods since 2000. 100 0
Primara Research @primaraau.bsky.social · 17/09/202670% of AI-driven job cuts aren't labelled as AI. One in five workers believe that's deliberate. That's 14% of all AI job losses actively hidden from staff. 100 0
Primara Research @primaraau.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Regional Victoria's home approvals jumped 27.4% to 12,436 while Melbourne's fell 7.6% to 42,173. This reversal hasn't happened since 2018-19. 100 0
Primara Research @primaraau.bsky.social · 15/09/202688% of Australians have a road trip on their bucket list. The Great Ocean Road dominates at 58%, topping every state we tested from Perth to Brisbane. 100 0
Primara Research @primaraau.bsky.social · 09/09/202610 October 2026 will be Australia's busiest wedding day on record: 1,900 couples marrying in a single day. That's nearly double a typical October Saturday and 1.6% of the entire year's weddings concentrated in 24 hours. 100 0
Primara Research @primaraau.bsky.social · 30/07/2026New home build costs jumped 5.8% in the year to June 2026—the fastest pace in nearly three years. That's 14 times the 0.4% growth rate recorded just 12 months prior. Construction inflation is running well ahead of headline inflation itself. 100 0
Primara Research @primaraau.bsky.social · 30/07/2026New home build costs jumped 5.8% in the year to June 2026—the fastest pace in nearly three years. That's 14 times the 0.4% growth rate recorded just 12 months prior. Construction inflation is running well ahead of headline inflation itself. 100 0
Primara Research @primaraau.bsky.social · 28/07/20261 in 9 Australians missed the AusAlert emergency message. Of those who missed it, 87% had their phone switched on and connected. The failure wasn't user error—it was the system. 100 0
Primara Research @primaraau.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Perth's mortgage default risk surged 22.1% in 12 months — fastest growth of any major state. All 10 most at-risk postcodes moved higher. This isn't a one-suburb story. 100 0
Primara Research @primaraau.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Sydney's retail theft rate hit 345.3 per 100,000 in the year to March 2026—a decade high. But the story isn't uniform: Sydney CBD records 1,204.1 incidents per 100,000, while Hunters Hill sits at just 7.1. 100 0
Primara Research @primaraau.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Solar and battery installs surged 79% above average in April 2026. Combined, they hit 104,501 units—46,119 more than recent months. Battery installs reached their strongest month on record since tracking began. 100 0
Primara Research @primaraau.bsky.social · 09/07/202637% of Australians have permanently changed how they live because of fuel costs. Five months in, the crisis has stopped feeling temporary—and behaviour has locked in. 100 0
Primara Research @primaraau.bsky.social · 29/06/2026The ACT pays $5,837 per dwelling annually in property tax—36% above the national average. NSW, despite the most expensive property market, sits 28% below the leader. 100 0
Primara Research @primaraau.bsky.social · 25/06/202683% of Australians wouldn't buy a home near a large AI data centre. The resistance isn't fear—it's rational calculation. Most simply don't believe their community would benefit. 100 0
Primara Research @primaraau.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Perth's median house price has officially hit $1,000,000 for the first time. Five years ago it was $535,000. That's 86.9% growth in half a decade. 100 0
Primara Research @primaraau.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Perth's median house price has officially hit $1,000,000 for the first time. Five years ago it was $535,000. That's 86.9% growth in half a decade. 100 0
Primara Research @primaraau.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Record $2.26B in commercial card debt accruing interest. 23.7% of all business card balances now high-interest. Growth accelerating faster than spending itself. 100 0
Primara Research @primaraau.bsky.social · 16/06/202683% of Australians planning EOFY sales are doing it specifically to beat cost-of-living pressure. This isn't retail theatre—it's financial strategy. 100 0
Primara Research @primaraau.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Australians will spend $8bn this EOFY. Millennials alone are driving 44% of that. Cost-of-living pressure is reshaping when and how we shop. 100 0
Primara Research @primaraau.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Australians will pay an average of $17,380 more for a property with a backyard shed. 79% of buyers are prepared to pay a premium. One in four will go at least $20,000 above asking price. 100 0
Primara Research @primaraau.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Fuel spike has cost Australian households $76 each in just two months—$836 million nationally. The real story: families are cutting groceries and dining out to cope. 100 0
Primara Research @primaraau.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Sydney's median house price fell $75,000 in Q1 2026—the second-largest quarterly drop on record. The only bigger fall? September 2017's $100,000 slide. 100 0
Primara Research @primaraau.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Australia needs a 49% lift in home completions to hit the government's 1.2 million target by mid-2029. Current pace will deliver nearly 305,000 homes short. The maths is brutal. 100 0
Primara Research @primaraau.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Australian governments collected $34.4bn in stamp duty in 2024/25 — nearly double the $18.8bn in 2018/19. Rising prices, not rising sales, are doing the heavy lifting. 100 0
Primara Research @primaraau.bsky.social · 26/05/202618.6% of Australian businesses still trapped in supply chain disruptions four years on. Agriculture hit hardest at 42%—nearly 2.5x the national average. The squeeze is intensifying, not easing. 100 0
Primara Research @primaraau.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Australia completed just 172,246 dwellings in 2025. That's the lowest since 2012. Victoria alone shed 6,181 completions—a bigger fall than the entire national shortfall. One state is dragging the whole country backwards. 100 0
Primara Research @primaraau.bsky.social · 14/05/2026NT delivered just 449 homes in 2025—falling 69% short of population growth need. Completions have hit a 50-year low, with the past two years marking the only times in five decades below 500 dwellings. 100 0
Primara Research @primaraau.bsky.social · 14/05/20263 million Australian workers are feeding sensitive data into AI tools. 40% of their employers have zero formal policy governing this. Your medical records, financial details, personal information—sitting unprotected on platforms never built to safeguard them. 100 0
Primara Research @primaraau.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Australian merchants paid $175 million more in card fees last year—not from higher transaction volumes, but from schemes and acquirers simply lifting rates. Total annual merchant card fees hit $8.6 billion. 100 0
Primara Research @primaraau.bsky.social · 12/05/2026ACT house commencements have collapsed 59% — the worst decline of any Australian state. Build costs hit $645,052 in 2025, 36% above the national average. 100 0
Primara Research @primaraau.bsky.social · 12/05/2026ACT house commencements have collapsed 59% — the worst decline of any Australian state. Build costs hit $645,052 in 2025, 36% above the national average. 100 0
Primara Research @primaraau.bsky.social · 12/05/2026ACT house commencements have collapsed 59% — the worst decline of any Australian state. Build costs hit $645,052 in 2025, 36% above the national average. 100 0
Primara Research @primaraau.bsky.social · 12/05/2026ACT house commencements have collapsed 59% — the worst decline of any Australian state. Build costs hit $645,052 in 2025, 36% above the national average. 100 0
Primara Research @primaraau.bsky.social · 01/05/2026We ran a nationally representative survey of 1,000 Australians in March 2026 on EV consideration and fuel price sensitivity. A few things in the numbers are worth calling out. 111 0
Primara Research @primaraau.bsky.social · 01/05/2026We published a joint affordability analysis with our technology partner Airteam using ABS data and NSW Valuer General property prices, applying the Demographia affordability measure down to SA2 level. One finding stands out. 111 0
Primara Research @primaraau.bsky.social · 01/05/2026We did some analysis on Australian fuel prices using AIP terminal gate price data. The petrol story and the diesel story are quite different. 111 0
Primara Research @primaraau.bsky.social · 30/04/2026We put together a piece on ACT house building for HomeLoanRates.com.au using the latest ABS Building Activity data. A few things in the numbers are worth calling out. 111 0
