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Home sales fell last year to below those recorded at the height of the global financial crisis in 2008. That was when the rest of the World had a major correction in house prices and Australia missed that bath.

Hence the :dead cat bounce” analogy.
Whilst we have seen several raises in mortgage interest rates, they are hardly a concern at average mortgage rates we have and full employment, so my guess is that house prices have got ahead of themselves and until they soften further we are unlikely to see an upswing in home buyers any time soon.

From that I make two points. They would stil be the top home builders without the CRMs, and:

This same company uses a CRM and their sales fell from nearly 500 land sales in 2009, to under 100 in 2010. So if the CRM did not work for them, why would they want to push it onto others?

The reason is that they wanted these same builders not using CRMs to buy more land and were trying to prove that they could make more sales.
The real motive was to the Land Sales company to shift land that wasn’t selling. Hope no home builders fell for that scam.
The fact is that people can’t buy a building contract without land, and if the Land Developer can’t sell their land, then home builders can’t sell homes. Its that simple.

The housing shortage in Queensland, the cost of land, and the cost of providing utilities and infrastructure to fringe suburban developments will mean that we will see a lot of smaller lot sizes, on sloping land and that means a lot of better and new home designs to meet these challenges.