City home values continue to climb despite rate rises
According to the latest RP Data - Rismark February 2010 Hedonic Home Value Index, dwelling values in Australia's capital cities have con...
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Interest rates will rise 2% over 20 months - according to survey
Economists from leading financial services companies agree that the RBA will push interest rates back to near pre-GFC levels by the end of ...
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New home sales plummet in Feb
According to the Housing Industry Association (HIA), new home sales dipped by 5.2% last month. The HIA’s New Home Sales report revealed th...
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Affordable housing to allow more Australians to own a home
A $160 million housing development is set to extend home ownership to hundreds of Australians who might otherwise struggle to raise enough...
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Interest rates going up
Economists at Australia’s leading banks expect the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) to lift interest rates again as early as next week. Ther...
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First home buyers are not all in their 20s
According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), the median age of first home buyers today are in fact, couples with or without depen...
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Mortgage stress not rising
Approximatley 2% of Australian households with owner-occupier home loans spent more than 50% of their disposable incomes on home loan repaym...
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Negative gearing fueling massive investment boom
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has revealed that one in seven taxpayers from FY2008 now owns an investment property. That equates to a...
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Are we in a property bubble? Investors say yes
The Investor Pulse survey, recently released by Colmar Brunton and BusinessDay, has revealed that 60% of property investors believe Australi...
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Prestige Australian neighbourhoods named - global report
According to The 2010 Wealth Report , a global perspective on prime residential property and wealth, Sydney, Melbourne and Perth are Austra...
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Buying a house can be risky behaviour for some
Australians are engaging in increasingly risky behaviour because they are seduced by the dream of home ownership said Professor Wilson-Evere...
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Westpac announces the end of low interest rates
The chairman of Westpac, Ted Evans, has admitted that interest rates would continue to rise independent of official RBA rate hikes for at ...
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Sydney auction clearance rates continue to improve
Sydney and Melbourne continue their strong property run over the weekend, with both cities recording auction clearance rates above 75%. ...
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Prosperity up, mortgage stress down according to CommSec
According to a new report published by CommSec, Australians are more prosperous than ever and home loan affordability is at levels not seen...
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Home loan rates increase
Banks and other mortgage lenders have raised interest rates on their standard variable home loans by 0.22% more than the Reserve Bank’s cas...
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Migrants flood first home buyer market
The first home buyer market is down but not out, as an increasing number of migrants choose to set up home on Australian shores. According t...
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Investment loans up, owners down
According to figures released by the ABS, home loans for investment property increased in January 2010, but dropped for new and existing dw...
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Australian home price timebomb
Australia faces a home price timebomb says one of Australia’s leading builders - Stockland. Australia's current shortage of 200,000 ho...
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New rules attracting international buyers to Australia's real estate market
Australian property is starting to gain allure with oil and mining rich Russian buyers, who have been driven from the troubled Dubai market....
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Economist says a number of factors to keep home loans high
Home loans are expected to continue to climb as house prices are supported by a number of factors. According to ANZ economist Ange M...
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