First-home buyers
The eight Melbourne suburbs bucking the property price trend
Apartment prices are down across Melbourne over the past year, but a select few suburbs have shot the lights out.
- Jim Malo
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What property prices will do as interest rates fall
NAB this week forecast the official cash rate to fall as low as 2.6 per cent within the next 12 months, the most bullish of the big four.
- Alice Uribe and Elizabeth Redman
‘Single biggest issue’: Bank boss says Labor needs to deliver on housing
“Economics 101” suggests that if demand for homes increases and supply doesn’t, it will simply result in higher home prices, NAB boss Andrew Irvine says.
- Clancy Yeates
The type of home that rose most in price over the past decade
The supply and demand equation has put pressure on the price trajectory of some homes more than others.
- Elizabeth Redman
How home owners could save $143 a month – and the reasons not to
More home owners are worried about paying off a home loan into retirement, but experts suggest people think long and hard about the options.
- Melissa Heagney-Bayliss
Which jobs pay enough to save for a Melbourne house deposit
After a decade of saving, even many higher-paid professionals would be short of their goals as property prices rose out of reach.
- Elizabeth Redman and Alice Uribe
Tree-change towns where houses cost almost the same as five years ago
House prices have more than doubled in the past five years in some parts of regional Australia, but other neighbourhoods have risen much less.
- Elizabeth Redman
The hidden housing cost that just got even more expensive
Home buyers would face an extra cost of tens of thousands on the typical house in the capital cities, calculations show.
- Elizabeth Redman
Where to find a house in Melbourne on a budget of $950,000
Several neighbourhoods at this price point are further from the city, but it’s possible to find something closer if you know where to look.
- Elizabeth Redman
Where to find a house in Sydney on a budget of $1.5 million
Prices have soared again, but it is possible to buy a home at this price point if you can find the right places to look.
- Kristy Johnson
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