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You Won’t Believe How Long It Really Takes Propert...
Have you wondered how many years it takes for house prices to double...You will often hear it said that property values double every 7 to 10 years
24-Mar-2025
ATO targets property investors: Are your records a...
Early in 2025, the ATO announced a major compliance crackdown on property investors, launching an extensive data-matching program designed to identi...
23-Mar-2025
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Another ‘extend and pretend’ mortgage arrives in Australia
A recent Finder survey found that nearly one-third of Australian consumers would consider a 40-year mortgage if it reduced their monthly repayments to a more manageable l...
09-May-2025
Lightning speed: How home prices have boomed in the past five years
A tumultuous five years created conditions for the most rapid property-price growth in history, but the enduring economic fallout of the pandemic has led to a big diverge...
20-Mar-2025
More builders likely to fail in absence of any construction silver bullet
In the first seven months of this financial year, 1,999 construction firms were declared insolvent. This was 26 per cent higher than the same period in 2023-24 (1,583) an...
24-Feb-2025
Migration balloons by 80,000 above expectations, adding to housing pressures
Australia's migrant population will rise above the government's expectations by 80,000 people over this financial year, adding to pressure on Australia's housing and rent...
20-Dec-2024
Top 10 design trends in the Gold Coast apartment market
The Gold Coast has one of Australia’s most vibrant apartment markets with no signs of a slow down. In fact, apartments have surged almost $100,000 this year
19-Dec-2024
Apartment demand on the rise as housing affordability slips further
Rising home and rent values continued to impact the Australian housing market in 2024. Further erosion in housing affordability has seen an increase in demand for u...
26-Nov-2024
Westpac: No rate cuts until May, but cycle will happen quickly
Westpac is officially predicting RBA cash rate cuts won't begin until May 2025, three months later than its previous February call.
26-Nov-2024
Australian Banks, Households Resilient to High Rates, RBA Says
(Bloomberg) -- The share of Australian borrowers in severe financial stress remains small with the vast majority still able to service their debts, the Reserve Bank said ...
30-Sep-2024
Employment changes from 1 July 2024: Minimum wage rates, unfair dismissal thresholds and more
Changes to a number of employment rates, thresholds and limits in Australia came into effect on 1 July 2024, with implications for both employees and employers. New right...
04-Jul-2024
