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15 November, 2019
Housing prices are rising again. In October, national home values rose 1.2%, the largest monthly…
28 October, 2019
More older Australians are carrying the heavy burden of mortgage debt into retirement, causing them…
14 October, 2019
Australia has one the world’s highest levels of household debt, and research shows that adults…
29 September, 2019
Open banking is here, having kicked off its first stage on 1 July 2019. But…
18 September, 2019
The number of Australians behind in their mortgage repayments is higher than it has been…
27 August, 2019
Australian property developers seem to be surviving the housing slump quite well. According to The…
13 August, 2019
Australia’s official cash rate is now down to 1%. And if we are to believe…
28 July, 2019
The Coalition Government promised before the federal election to help first homebuyers get into the…
16 July, 2019
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are turning to non-bank lenders as funding through banks becomes…
30 June, 2019
Tightening credit supply has been largely blamed for the slowdown in Australia’s housing market. Adding…
19 June, 2019
Workers typically earn more when they live closer to where the jobs are. But years…
31 May, 2019
An extraordinary number of Australians are feeling financially stressed and struggling under the weight of…
27 May, 2019
Now that the federal election is over and the Labor Party’s planned changes to negative…
30 April, 2019
The mining sector’s fortunes continue to keep several Australians in the upper rungs of the…
15 April, 2019
Chinese buyers’ interest in Australian property weakened in 2018 but has now rebounded, giving a…
28 March, 2019
Almost a year after the end of the first banking royal commission hearings, the risk…
13 March, 2019
Many small business owners are worrying about their company around the clock as accessing finance…
28 February, 2019
Do short-term letting platforms like Airbnb really drive up rents? The answer probably depends on…
18 February, 2019
The Australian economy is headed for another strong year – GDP growth is expected to…
28 January, 2019
Australia faces the biggest risk of a downturn due to household debt reduction among major…
15 January, 2019
Chinese investment in Australia fell 40% to $8.9 billion in 2017 as the Chinese government…
3 December, 2018
Is Australia’s population growth increasing commute times in our major cities? Is traffic congestion spiralling…
15 November, 2018
Australia’s housing market downturn is starting to affect small and medium-sized enterprises (SME’s). The common…
29 October, 2018
Housing prices in the world’s most sought-after cities are slowing down after years of record…
16 October, 2018
Demand for housing loans continues to weaken as investors have been forced to pull back…
19 September, 2018
Westpac and its subsidiaries Bank of Melbourne, St.George Bank and Bank SA have announced they…
6 September, 2018
Mortgage interest rates are going up as lenders struggle to absorb their rising funding costs,…
23 August, 2018
Australia’s home values fell for the ninth consecutive month in June and are forecast to…
3 August, 2018
The property boom has once again propelled developers to The Australian Financial Review 2018 Rich…
18 July, 2018
The foreign buyer boom is over, and we may not witness a repeat of the…
29 June, 2018
Mortgage brokers may see major changes to their pay model as pressure to limit their…
13 June, 2018
Large Australian businesses in industries such as mining and agriculture have benefited enormously from China’s…
29 May, 2018
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) is relaxing the reins on investor property lending as…
16 May, 2018
If your small to medium-sized enterprise (SME) has performed solidly in recent years and you…
30 April, 2018
Many small business owners use their homes as collateral when applying for a small business…
18 April, 2018
Levels of indebtedness are on the rise, driven by growing mortgages. But are they a…
30 March, 2018
Australia remains high on the list of desirable places to live for high net worth…
19 March, 2018
When interest rates are low and meaningful returns are hard to find, speculators tend to…
28 February, 2018
Investment bank Credit Suisse reckons Australians are cutting back their spending and increasing their savings,…
19 February, 2018
The data trickling out of the 2016 Census has given us some investment insights. Let’s…
31 January, 2018
The cost of housing is again likely to dominate the domestic economy in 2018, but…
13 January, 2018
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) is casting around for clues on how to deal…
14 December, 2017
In 2010, one Bitcoin was worth less than one hundredth of an Australian cent. Each Bitcoin is…
4 December, 2017
State economies appear to be in good shape with all states recording above decade average…
16 November, 2017
Business conditions are generally pretty good in Australia at the moment and the number of…
1 November, 2017
The chief monetary guardian, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), is also the 800-pound gorilla…
19 October, 2017
The investing mantra has always been diversify, diversify, diversify! In essence, it means that if…
28 September, 2017
Cryptocurrencies have promised much but delivered few real-world benefits – until now. In fact, it’s…
15 September, 2017
The expansion of the global marketplace is bringing investors to Australia’s door as political uncertainty…
1 September, 2017
Jawboning, or trying to influence markets through pointed commentary, is one of the weapons financial…
17 August, 2017
Predicting the end of the housing boom is one of the most popular games in…
4 August, 2017
The big winners of the ongoing property boom are the state governments. In NSW alone,…
17 July, 2017
An item in the Federal Budget that hasn’t received much coverage is the plan to…
6 July, 2017
When Donald Horne coined the phrase ‘the lucky country’ in 1964, he was being sardonic,…
14 June, 2017
The housing market is facing less pressure from foreign investors, with buyer numbers more than…
1 June, 2017
Pricking Australia’s housing bubble will take more than isolated tinkering with lending rates and jawboning…
15 May, 2017
“This levy’s in. It’s staying. It’s a fair and reasonable tax on the banks.” That’s…
3 May, 2017
There’s one fact that may mean an increase in official interest rates is not on…
18 April, 2017
Sydney ranks 10th on a list of the world’s most expensive cities for luxury residences,…
3 April, 2017
Despite all the blustering and gnashing of teeth about the new US President, optimism about…
14 March, 2017
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) is getting trigger-happy about housing investment. APRA Chairman Wayne…
1 March, 2017
Apparently, it’s not a matter of if Australia loses its coveted AAA credit rating, so…
20 February, 2017
The mortgage lending market is showing no signs of cooling, data released by the Australian…
6 February, 2017
Low interest rates are meant to stimulate the economy, which in turn is meant to…
6 January, 2017
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has tacitly recognised how tough the world is getting…
25 December, 2016
’Twas the night before Christmas and all was silent ’cept the murmuring of central bankers…
7 December, 2016
Buying confidence in two of the most downtrodden markets has jumped, with new research showing…
30 November, 2016
The financial services regulator, the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA), recognises there is a problem…
4 November, 2016
Sydney office rentals are set to soar, according to the Knight Frank Global Cities 2017…
17 October, 2016
Perth and Darwin are the top places to claim tax loses on property, but several…
5 October, 2016
The release of the latest GDP figures gives us a good excuse to look at…
16 September, 2016
We need some fresh thinking to protect us from the next economic shock. The Reserve…
2 September, 2016
Sydney’s CBD is steadily falling into foreign hands. Independent global property consultancy Knight Frank’s latest…
12 August, 2016
Are more units being built than the market can handle? This month’s revelation by the…
1 August, 2016
The office market is running hot in some cities . . . The services sector…
17 July, 2016
Cutting the time spent in the naughty corner is not enough… No one likes the…
1 July, 2016
Any event that causes uncertainty and possible loss of money results in a ‘flight to…
19 June, 2016
The world is awash with debt and we’re running out of solutions… Interest rates…
1 June, 2016
More pressure on banks may make it harder for businesses to get loans… The best…
13 May, 2016
Real estate prices are easing and that’s causing some concern… “If enough people think…
15 April, 2016
The high cost of housing in the capital cities remains a political hot potato and…
23 March, 2016
Brisbane the place to invest The property market is cooling and sellers no longer have…
10 March, 2016
Apparently we had a Federal Budget ‘emergency’ in 2014. Crisis was the narrative, and politicians…
8 February, 2016
The long-expected cooling of the property markets appears to be under way, with values falling,…
8 February, 2016
The big four banks have suddenly found that money is getting more expensive and their…
25 January, 2016
When you look for signs of economic growth, there are a lot of signals to…
18 January, 2016
“The future ain’t what it used to be,” said Yogi Berra, and if the unpredicted…
26 December, 2015
Part 3 of the series on Australia’s looming debt danger In the first part of…
26 December, 2015
The Chronicles of Debt It is close to ten years since America’s housing bubble burst….
7 November, 2015
Part 2 of our series on Australia’s looming debt danger. Australian mortgage holders are under…
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