One Swallow Does Not a Summer Make for Housing, but Spring Has Arrived for Infrastructure Spending.
Australia’s November housing approvals were surprisingly strong, with 17.1% growth on the previous corresponding period, or pcp, to 22,532 units. Despite this strength, approvals for the full calendar year are still tracking to decline around 5% and we forecast approvals and completions to decline by 9% in 2018. With some cost inflation, we forecast new residential construction spend, which stems from housing approvals, to decline around 6% to AUD 61.3 billion in 2018. Offsetting this weakness, ...Boral manufactures and supplies building and construction materials in Australia, the U.S. and Asia. Co.'s segments are: Construction Materials & Cement, consisting of quarries, concrete, asphalt, transport, landfill, property, cement and concrete placing; Building Products, consisting of Australian bricks, roofing and masonry, and timber products; Boral Gypsum Joint Venture, which manufactures and sells plasterboard and associated products; and Boral USA, consisting of bricks, cultured stone, roof tiles, fly ash, concrete and quarries. The primary end use markets for Co.'s products include residential and non-residential construction and the engineering and infrastructure markets.
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