“Domestically, the unwinding of housing-market tensions to date may presage dramatic and destabilising developments, rather than herald a soft landing.” This is the latest warning from the OECD Economic Outlook and comes after the Reserve Bank of Australia stoked the hot coals last month, slashing the official cash rate by …
All four of Australia’s big banks have tightened lending for foreign buyers over the past months, some blaming increased regulatory requirements. Under the Basel III banking reforms, banks will face higher capital requirements on loans reliant on foreign income. Highly elevated house prices and paltry rents in Australia means rental …
Borrowers are having to pay larger housing deposits in 2016 as lenders re-evaluate their risk appetite, according to Genworth. Genworth Mortgage Insurance Australia Limited is Australia’s largest provider of Lenders Mortgage Insurance (LMI). LMI protects the lender when borrowers default on their home loans. According to the Chief Executive Officer, …
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has today acknowledged the Australian economy is slowing more rapidly than forecast, deciding to slash the official cash rate by 25 basis points to a record low of just 1.75 per cent. It follows ugly stats out last week from the Australian Bureau of …
The ABC’s Four Corners has aired an excellent story tonight showing how tax distortions such as negative gearing has created one of the world’s largest housing bubbles: Watch the 45 minute segment here.
This article is part of a three part series. Part 1 examines the merits and problems experienced from Labor’s Fibre to the Premise Network. Part 2 investigates the Coalition’s multi technology mix using a smorgasbord of technologies and the challenge of using aging networks to deliver super fast broadband into …
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has today ruled out any changes to negative gearing and in doing so, has drawn battle lines on housing affordability for this coming election. If Labor wins the election, it plans to reform negative gearing and the capital gains tax discount effective from 1st July 2017. …
This article is part of a three part series. Part 1 examines the merits and problems experienced from Labor’s Fibre to the Premise Network. Part 2 investigates the Coalition’s multi technology mix using a smorgasbord of technologies and the challenge of using aging networks to deliver super fast broadband into …
This article is part of a three part series. Part 1 examines the merits and problems experienced from Labor’s Fibre to the Premise Network. Part 2 investigates the Coalition’s multi technology mix using a smorgasbord of technologies and the challenge of using aging networks to deliver super fast broadband into …
In his victory speech, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said the Australia of the future has to be a nation that is agile, innovative and creative. But founder of Australia’s largest tech company, Mike Cannon-Brookes, claims Australia is too expensive. Mike Cannon-Brookes, a founder of Nasdaq listed software company Atlassian, headquartered …
A flawed report claiming Labor’s plan to quarantine negative gearing to new homes would result in rents surging by up to ten percent, and new home builds falling 7,200 annually, has embarrassingly backed fired for the government. The BIS Shrapnel report, riddled with significant errors such as Australia’s GDP being …
At nine thirty last night, I sat in my allocated seat – G-6, in cinema ten of Event Cinemas’ Marion Megaplex. As a “renter class” citizen, I had just paid the budget price of $12.50 (Cheaper Tuesday) to see The Big Short, a true story of hedge fund manager, Michael …
Performance Property Advisory believes Sydney property prices have “reached a classic peak” and have issued a “sell” rating according to the Australian Financial Review (‘Sydney and Melbourne property ‘set for price correction.’) The group provides market research and analysis for medium to high income professionals. According to the Domain, Sydney …
He promised informed economic debate. But today, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s credibility in delivering much needed economic debate evaporated, as he launched a massive scare campaign claiming Labor’s negative gearing policy would result in house prices being “smashed”. After some debate over the past month, Turnbull has backed away from …
“Our fifth annual Investor of the Year Award has revealed some of the country’s most shrewd investors yet, as we present the property powerhouses who are showing the rest of Australia how it’s done” boasts Your Investment Property Magazine in 2012. Showing the rest of Australia how it is done, …
2016 is set to bring more pain for Perth property punters as prices continue to fall on the back of diving commodity and energy prices, rising unemployment, stagnant wage growth, surging vacancy rates and plunging rents. With more mines destined for care and maintenance resulting in more job losses and …
According to China’s National Bureau of Statistics, real estate inventory reached 686 million square meters at the end of October, up 18 per cent from a year earlier. With the average size of an urban Chinese home 60sqm, this represents an excess of approximately 11 million unsold homes. At the …
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) is preparing to embark on an unprecedented data matching program, today asking state authorities for extensive records relating to real property from the period of 20th September 1985 to 30 June 2017. In a notice published today in the Government Gazette, the ATO indicates “The …
Melbourne and Sydney has witnessed substantial property price falls in November as auction clearance rates took a tumble. According to CoreLogic RP Data, Melbourne property prices fell a sizeable 3.5 per cent in November, followed by Sydney notching up a 1.4 per cent decline for the month. Australia’s two largest …
Fresh data released today from the China Customs Bureau show imports to China declined 17.7 per cent in the year to September. Exports feared better, falling 1.1 per cent for the same period leading to predictions, GDP numbers to be released next week will be the weakest quarterly growth rate …
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