January 22, 2016
Property investment hotspots for 2015
Property investment hotspots look set to move from the major capital cities to some popular tourist destinations in Queensland.
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January 22, 2016
Mortgage delinquency on the improve
Mortgage delinquencies are down across Australia in the last year, suggesting home owners are finding it easier to pay their mortgages.
January 22, 2016
Interest rate cut could keep property market wheels spinning
After much speculation over the last couple of months, with plenty of people split over which way interest rates would go next, the Reserve Bank last night dropped them a quarter of a per cent to a new record low of 2.25 per cent.
January 22, 2016
First-home buyer numbers higher than analysts thought
The apparent slump in first-home buyer numbers isn’t quite as bad as analysts thought.
January 22, 2016
Australia’s unemployment surges again
The surprise drop in Australia’s unemployment rate in December has proved an anomaly with the figure surging back up to 6.4 per cent in January.
January 22, 2016
RBA says housing market needs to be watched closely
The housing market needs careful monitoring according to an overwhelming number of members of the Reserve Bank Board.
January 22, 2016
Growth in mortgage broking deals
Brokers account for nearly two thirds of the growth in the home loan market over the last year but their share of the entire mortgage market dropped in the December quarter.
January 22, 2016
Leading economist speaks out against cutting rates
When our economy is sluggish and it needs a kick along the best way to initiate activity is to cut interest rates right? Wrong, according to one of Australia’s leading economists.
January 22, 2016
RBA keeps rates steady as Melbourne’s property market starts to fire
The RBA surprised a few pundits yesterday when they left interest rates unchanged at 2.5 per cent.
January 22, 2016
February rate cut sparks home loan growth as rates stay steady in March
The country’s biggest mortgage broker, AFG, has reported a 16 per cent jump in the value of home loans processed last month after interest rates were cut quarter of a per cent back in February.