Choice.com.au – 6 May, 2015 https://www.choice.com.au/money/property/buying/articles/mortgage-broker-shadow-shop By Uta Mihm You’d think a mortgage broker would hunt down the most appropriate home loan deal possible for you when lining up finance for the biggest purchase of…
The Conversation.com – 5 May, 2015 By Pat McConnell http://theconversation.com/rates-and-housing-risk-beware-outsourcing-policy-to-regulators-41188 The Reserve Bank of Australia would dearly love to be like Dr Doolittle’s amazing pushmi-pullyu, able to face both directions at once. Cutting interest rates…
The Bull.com.au – 23 April, 2015. By AAP http://www.thebull.com.au/articles/a/53635-renovation-spending-to-fall-before-a-rise.html The home renovation market should enjoy a modest recovery over the next few years, but that will follow another decline in 2015, the Housing Industry Association…
ABC News – 16 April, 2015 By Michael Janda http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-04-15/housing-shortage-not-as-certain-as-we-think/6395326 The Australian housing shortage is a gospel truth for everyone from Treasury and Reserve Bank policymakers down to your average Joe chatting with mates at…
Corelogic.com.au – April 10, 2015 By Cameron Kusher http://blog.corelogic.com.au/2015/04/is-lending-to-investors-finally-starting-to-slow/ The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released housing finance data for February 2015 earlier today. The results suggested to me that perhaps; after many warnings, the exuberance from…
Domain.com.au – 27 March, 2015 By Lindsay David http://news.domain.com.au/domain/real-estate-news/australia-is-in-one-of-the-worst-housing-bubbles-we-have-ever-seen-20150327-1m8vao.html By all accounts, Australia is experiencing what is one of the greatest credit-fuelled real estate bubbles in modern times. On the back of a collapsing mining sector,…
ABC News – 21 March, 2015 By Sue Lannin http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-03-20/apra-says-individual-banks-targeted-in-investor-loan-crackdown/6337208? Australia’s banking regulator says its new 10 per cent limit on annual growth in property investor loans is a trigger, not a cap. Australian Prudential…
Digital Finance Analytics – 20 March, 2015 Martin North http://www.digitalfinanceanalytics.com/blog/deep-mortgage-discounts-to-be-had/ We have updated our survey models, and we note that since January banks have been discounting their mortgage dealss in an attempt to gain relative…
The Sydney Morning Herald – 20 march, 2015 By Scott Phillips http://www.smh.com.au/money/investing/huge-property-profits-dont-always-add-up-20150320-1m3ljy.html The gains look impressive … but are they, really? If there was a “Captain Obvious” award for stating the bleeding self-evident it would…
The New Daily – Mar 19, 2015 By Johanna Leggatt http://thenewdaily.com.au/money/2015/03/19/landlords-really-overheating-property-market/ Baby boomer landlords have been blamed for squeezing younger buyers out of the market. We test this claim. Negative gearing: it’s a complicated and bizarre-sounding…
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