TASMANIA

It’s the hottest property market in Australia and the Apple Isle is also the only state in which new vehicle sales rose in 2018. In NSW, Victorian and Queensland, sales fell respectively by 6.6, 1.8 and 0.7 per cent; nationally, the figure was 3.0 per cent. In Tassie, the annual tally increased by 3.3 per cent. The state’s December sales plummeted by more than 20 per cent on the previous year. Maybe the locals need bigger mortgages now …