All eyes are directed on the Federal Reserve BoaThe decision of the RD on Tuesday, February 18th on the DirectiTo the interest rates in Australia.
Since the number of inflation looks better, the likelihood that interest rates will drop in 2025 have increased significantly.
Regardless of whether this will happen on February 18 or soon after, we will undoubtedly receive some instructions in the comments of the Governor of Reserve Bank, Michelle Bullock and the follow -up of the board.
Lower interest for predictions
Already in December there was more cautious but undoubtedly encouraging encouragement, in which many had to predict a reduction in February.
If the costs for borrowing are falling, people who may have been carried out by renovation work due to the rising interest rates of recent years will be checked again on how to expand their houses.
Material costs and labor shortages
Although interest rates are an essential factor for the financing of big-ticket articles such as renovation work, they are not the only influence on whether people will or will perform a renovation of homes.
In recent years, the renovation costs have increased, which are due to higher material costs according to the COVID-19 pandemic and a lack of workers, which are also due to some dealers who return to their country of origin during this period.
The forecast for 2025 is that the material prices are largely stabilized and remain constant.
However, this does not mean that problems such as exchange rate fluctuations do not cause volatility.
Advantages of established builders
For this reason, the inclusion of larger and more established renovation builders is an intelligent step, since with your scaling economy you have better purchasing power, more established connections to suppliers and experience that you should know that you should buy in advance.
The other general advice for the renovation of people is that they should also work with a building contractor who offers a fixed price contract. This offers consumers protection against short -term variations.
With regard to the labor market of dealers, the recently announced incentives of the federal government, which were published at the end of January, are taken more positive steps. Have industry bodies such as the Housing Industry Association (HIA) greeted this initiative with optimism This will help to attract and keep the most important business for construction.
Affect land prices
In A The latest article in the Sydney Morning HeraldTim Reardon, Hia’s chief economist, said he expects the renovation to be strong in 2025, since the combination of a slowdown by the new residential building and an increase in land prices will convince homeowners that it is better to renovate their existing house than to build a new one.
Less there -delays
One of the other potential renovation work, delays in developmental applications, also improves. The Latest data from the NSW government shows that the average accommodation days in 2024-25 from 17 to 2023-24 to 13 days fell, the lowest since the publication of these figures in 2022
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