NEW house sales remained sluggish last month, posting only a slight increase, new figures out from the Housing Industry Association (HIA) show. The HIA new home sales data showed an 0.8 per cent rise in the sale of homes and units for October. Detached home sales fell by 1.6 per …
A new report on mortgage defaults argues that rising property prices have disguised the true extent of problems in the home loan market. The report by the credit ratings agency Fitch says rising prices have let borrowers sell or re-finance when they get into difficulty. . . . If that …
EXCESSIVE use of credit and credit cards has contributed to a leap in the number of personal bankruptcy cases, the Insolvency and Trustee Service of Australia says. According to its annual report, there were 31,971 new bankruptcies, debt agreements or personal insolvency cases in Australia in 2006-07, an increase of …
HOME affordability is at its lowest level in 22 years, with more than a third of a family’s income needed to make average mortgage repayments, the Real Estate Institute of Australia (REIA) says. The Deposit Power/REIA Affordability report for the September quarter found 36.6 per cent of household income was …
THE chances of a global “growth recession,” where world growth dips to below 2 per cent, are about one in three next year, according to economists at Germany’s biggest bank Deutsche Bank. ”The bursting of the housing and credit bubble this year and the ensuing credit and banking crisis have …
In a last ditch effort to prevent the Reserve bank from raising Interest Rates, Treasurer Peter Costello was warned the China bubble and the US subprime mortgage crisis could cause ripple effects in Australia. Prime Minister John Howard has distanced himself from Costello’s comments and refuses to elaborate. Howard has …
WE are in the midst of the worst financial crisis since 1998. The American housing market is in its direst state – sales and prices are down, foreclosures and defaults are up – since they started keeping statistical records 50 years ago. The fear of a recession is so large …
Not only are households feeling the stress of exorbitant house prices and the resulting credit crunch. Have a thought for the Sheriff Officers who have to evict defaulting home owners, and worse still many renters who have always paid their rent on time, but the only thing they have done …
The world economy is booming, but it is nothing compared to the growth in credit when looking to the big debtor nations today. Australians are in debt to levels never before seen in the history of credit, with the only two periods that come close – the 1880s and 1920s …
Australians are in debt to levels never before seen in the history of credit, with the only two periods that come close – the 1880s and 1920s – followed by major depressions. » Aussie debt at historic levels – The ABC, 25th September 2007. » Household debt likely to rise, …
The ABC’s Four Corners has just aired an hour report on the sub prime mortgage disaster. The transcript can be found here. It features an interview with Robert Shiller. You can watch the extended interviews and read other resources here : » Four Corners Mortgage Meltdown Extended Interviews & Further …
Loan defaults rose by almost 30 per cent in the last financial year with failures to pay the bills on time up in every Australian state and territory, figures from the nation’s biggest credit check firm have revealed. And economists say consumers who haven’t experienced a recession are upping their …
Global economic growth will take a hit as a result of the US subprime mortgage crisis, says the chief executive of Deutsche Bank, Germany’s biggest bank. » Subprime crisis to ‘hit world economy’ – The Age, September 2007
With fears of a credit crunch coming to haunt the economy, the Australian All Ords fell 311 points or 5.4% during trade yesterday, only to make a good recovery in the afternoon. With records for the biggest fall since Sept 11th broken several times in the past month, yesterdays fall …
These days it seems everyday is another big fall caused by sub prime worries and the impending credit crunch. The Australian All Ordinaries Index fell another 2.75% or 181 points today to 5,801, lead by big falls in the US markets overnight. The Dow Jones fell 207.6 points to 13,028 …
THE Federal Reserve Chairman, Ben Bernanke, was wrong.So were the US Treasury Secretary, Henry Paulson, and the chief executive officer of Merrill Lynch & Co, Stanley O’Neal. The subprime mortgage industry’s problems were contained, they all said. It turns out that the turmoil was contagious. » All the experts were …
The Australian Stock Market took the lead from Global Markets and with the S&P200 plunging 3.7%, the biggest one day fall since 7/11. “Cash is king at present, with the market continuing to respond very directly to offshore volatility as the fall-out from sub-prime credit crisis spreads,” MFS chief executive …
In the lead up to the last federal election, one of Prime Minister Howard’s slogans was Keeping Interest Rates low. Since then rates have risen 5 times. Today the RBA increased interest rates 0.25 per cent to 6.50. But does Interest Rates really matter, or is the actual size of …
What will come as no surprise to many, the Urban Development Institute of Australia says a report it just released shows housing affordability has worsened dramatically in recent years. It charts the affordability in 70 centers in Australia. In 2001, 96 percent of those centres were considered affordable, today it …
WHO’D have guessed it? Housing is the reason global stockmarkets are suddenly looking sickly, housing is the curse of the credit system, and it just might be the key to this year’s federal election. » Australia’s real crunch in housing yet to come – The Age, 29th July 2009
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