The 7 must-know numbers of the week

The amount of money that is on offer from the Queensland government to build a new home under $600,000. The Queensland building boost was meant to end at the end of January but has been extended until April.

The probability that the futures marketing is pricing for an RBA interest rate cut in February. Many economists, including Westpac's Bill Evans, concur that the Reserve Bank is likely to slash rates again when it next meets. 

The amount that Dixon Advisory's US Residential Masters Fund secured in its second round of capital raising. The $31 million raised equates to less than a quarter of the maximum $140 million that was sought from investors, suggesting appetite for the fund has diminished since the fund listed in June last year.

The number of suburbs on Smart Property Investment magazine’s 2012 list of 50 suburbs or towns with the most capital growth potential that received multiple votes. The three hotspots were the Victorian town of Warrnambool and the Queensland mining towns of Gladstone and Rockhampton.

The percentage increase from the June 2011 quarter to the September 2011 quarter in the number of sales in Queensland. Some regions recorded substantial jumps in activity as buyers finally started to foray back into the market.

The amount that the median rent rose for Sydney houses rose between June 2011 and December 2011. Median house rents rose from $500 to $555 in the space of six months, according to the latest Residex data.

The amount that Cold Chisel frontman Jimmy Barnes hopes to secure for two industrial warehouse investments in the Sydney suburb of Botany. They cost $2.3 million in 2009 when bought by Barnes and his wife, Jane.