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Despite dip in March, the national vacancy rate has been tipped by SQM Research to push the 3 per cent threshold by the end of the year.

We look set for an official interest rate cut before the federal election after inflation figures came in under target this week.

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority will be reaching for the stick rather than the carrot as it adopts a newer tough approach.

Financial advisors and mortgage brokers are being offered big commissions – up to 30 per cent bigger than last year – to sell completed apartments during the downturn.

New BIS Oxford Economics figures say Australia’s residential building boom is long gone and housing construction will fall 30 per cent from peak to trough over a two-year correction.