Why house prices will move off the boil this year
The strong growth in house prices is expected to cool later this year.
Property Prices
Housing intervention a ‘rational response’, says NAB chair
NAB chairman Phil Chronican says intervention in the hot housing market would be a ‘rational response’ by regulators.
Housing stimulus a $100bn bonanza
The $25,000 HomeBuilder scheme could be extended after demand outstripped forecasts.
We’ll all be feeling Covid hangover for years to come
Low interest rates, rising property prices and a shortage of places to store retirement capital will all be long-running legacies of the virus.
Curbs a risk for first-time buyers
Changes to lending regulations to halt rising property prices may block first-home buyers.
New love affair with fixed mortgages
Australians are snapping up fixed-rate home loans at a record pace, laying the foundation for a potentially painful repricing in two or three years’ time.
‘House prices could soar 15% this year’
UBS predicts a push by investors could aid the surge in property values, with regulators unlikely to intervene until late this year.
Not enough houses: Westpac
Westpac’s CEO says a lack of housing supply is helping push prices to unaffordable levels for first-time buyers.
Mandarins play property price ping-pong
According to our financial regulators, the most important thing to know about Australia’s ballooning house prices is that they’re someone else’s problem.
Melbourne property prices hit post-Covid high
New figures reveal the city’s house values have regained all their losses to surge past their April 2020 peak.
City rents dip as tenants hit the suburbs
A “two-speed rental market” along Australia’s east coast is set to emerge from the pandemic, says CoreLogic.
$95m mansion defies pandemic gloom
With stunning views, ‘Edgewater’ in Sydney’s Point Piper has claimed a place as one of the nation’s most expensive homes.
Send rent reductions straight to tribunal: REIV
The Real Estate Institute of Victoria is attempting to flood the system after the ban on evictions was extended.
Some suburbs need 20pct home deposit: ANZ
ANZ will apply tighter lending criteria that will hit some of the nation’s postcodes where property prices are expected to drop.
Homebuyers facing limited spring bloom
Prospective homebuyers will have fewer properties to pick from this spring, traditionally the peak selling season.
Might be time to sell, says CBA chief
CBA CEO Matt Comyn says now might be the time for some property investors to sell assets to cover looming debts.
Dunk Island promoter faces regulator injunction
ASIC wins interim injunctions against Dunk Island promoter as provisional liquidators called in to Mayfair debenture issuer.
‘Worse to come’ in home price downturn
House prices nationally fell 0.4pc in August to extend the ‘mild’ downturn, but a bigger test lies ahead, warns CoreLogic.
Upbeat McGrath in $10m property turnaround
Sydney real estate identity John McGrath says home prices are defying warnings of gloom, as his firm returns to the black.
Property doyen Kevin Seymour parks opinion
The veteran Queensland property developer will wait and see what effects COVID-19 might have on the sector.
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