
Victoria’s property sector could be heading for a grinding halt
Victoria’s strict new stage four restrictions could bring the state’s property sector to a standstill.

Victoria’s strict new stage four restrictions could bring the state’s property sector to a standstill.

S&P Global Ratings say the second Melbourne COVID lockdown and lack of migration will hit house prices by 10 per cent.

The national median rent price has ended its long run of straight growth, dropping half a per cent amidst ongoing COVID-19 uncertainty.

Commercial property confidence has unfortunately sunk to a new low according to the National Australia Bank Commercial Property Index.

Parental lending to children has been in sharp decline since the May election last year, but it might be making a comeback.

Spooked sellers ran for the hills on the weekend, with nearly half of Melbourne’s vendors pulling out of their weekend auctions.

Banks will give borrowers more time to repay their loans by extending six-month repayment holidays by another four months.

The Reserve Bank has kept the official cash rate at 0.25 per cent at its July meeting as Melbourne braces itself for a hard border and another round of coronavirus lockdowns.

Auction listings are in decline and clearance rates struggling amid a fresh outbreak of coronavirus in Victoria.

Some off-the-plan apartment buyers are having to cut their losses and walk away from their deposits.