There have recently been many articles in the media regarding changing property prices. Unlike shares, which can be accurately tracked day-to-day, property is historically an opaque market with less visibility on price movements. However, over the past few years computers with sophisticated programming have been able to track property markets more accurately and provide an increasing level of transparency.

The Reserve Bank of Australia has recently released a report where they have done an analysis of average property growths and rental yields since 1955. The report is called “Is Housing Overvalued?”