Housing cycles / AUS

Australia

Real residential property prices, BIS index, 1970 to 2026-Q1. The index is rebased to 2010 = 100 for Australia alone, so its level says nothing next to another country’s. Growth and drawdown are comparable across countries; the level is not.

+5.7%

Real prices, year on year

2026-Q1; nominal +10.0%

at peak

Off its own real peak

peak 2022-Q1

-15.5%

Deepest real drawdown

trough 1978-Q4, within the observed sample

1970

Index starts

225 quarters to 2026-Q1

Real house price index, annual

Annual means of the quarterly real index. A year is plotted only if all four of its quarters are present, so a partial year is dropped rather than averaged over whatever is present.

Source: BIS residential property prices (selected series) Latest real quarter 2026-Q1 = 141.8; highest observed real quarter 2022-Q1 = 141.8. Methodology

Banking crises

Laeven-Valencia records no systemic banking crisis for Australia. There is no event study on this page, and this country enters none of the cross-country medians on the index. Its deepest observed real drawdown is -15.5%, into 1978-Q4. Absence from the chronology is the chronology’s judgement, not proof that no crisis happened.

Limits of this page. The drawdown figures are conditional on the sample: Australia’s index begins in 1970, so a peak before then is invisible and the deepest drawdown is the deepest observedone. The crisis dating is Laeven-Valencia’s, not this repo’s. Nothing here is a causal claim. See the methodology for the full list.