Real Estate price forecasts in the media

It’s good that finally the media is including forecasts when discussing the future of Australian’s real estate prices. However we can improve on the forecasts being used. The CoreLogic Moody’s forecasts that are quoted are regularly highly inaccurate; Vifortech Solutions has proved it can do better. Comparing the percentage error of annual forecasts in the discussion below, we see: In only one case is the Vifortech Solutions forecast wrong by more than 25%; and In four out of five cases the CoreLogic Moody’s forecast is wrong by more than 30%....

January 27, 2019 · 4 min · Stewart Wright

Honesty in forecasting

The Australian media seems to be in love with talking about real estate. In particular bubbles, and (even though they don’t use the term) forecasts. ...

May 29, 2017 · 2 min · Stewart Wright