Rise of the rentvestor who can’t buy where they want
Unable to buy a home to immediately live in, a generation is instead investing in property which gets a foothold while renting in a more desirable area – and it’s changing the market.
Unable to buy a home to immediately live in, a generation is instead investing in property which gets a foothold while renting in a more desirable area – and it’s changing the market.
Despite better recent price action in regional Australia, property investors are sticking to the same big city suburbs they always have.
Public servants with defined-benefit pensions say they are ‘sitting ducks’, so now they are joining forces to push against plans to include them in new taxes on super.
A remarkable story from a bank branch in Sydney tells us much about the need for financial literacy in schools.
A push to allow super be used for homebuyers highlights double standards in ‘big super’.
Artificial intelligence is now the hottest sector of the sharemarket with opportunities at home and abroad.
Paying down the mortgage first has been a mantra among advisers and well-meaning in-laws for generations. But putting money into super might be a smarter choice now for some.
The recent Aged Care Taskforce report ignores the elephant in the room — wealth from home ownership is effectively excluded when it comes to means testings.
The Victorian capital, set to become the biggest city in Australia, should be thriving but it comes last in terms of price improvements and things could be about to get a lot worse.
New land taxes aimed at small investors threaten to flatten Melbourne’s property market.
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