First-home buyers accounted for 25% of all new mortgages in February according to new data, driven by the lowest interest rates in 20 years,…
First-home buyers accounted for 25% of all new mortgages in February according to new data, driven by the lowest interest rates in 20 years,…
The first-home-buyer boost to the housing sector has been officially confirmed, with data revealing nearly 30,000 people applied for the fir…
The residential housing industry will not begin to recover until 2009-10, according to the Housing Industry of Australia’s new national out…
Just how low will official interest rates go? That is the big question that economists and the nine members of the Reserve Bank board are gr…
New data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics shows Australian house prices fell 0.8% in the final three months of 2008, taking the tota…
Australian house prices remain highly overvalued by international standards and are almost certain to fall sharply as our housing bubble bur…
The Gold Coast, Sydney and the Sunshine Coast are Australia’s most unaffordable housing markets, while the Latrobe Valley and Mildura are …
The latest employment data has been thoroughly picked apart by economists and commentators in the last 24 hours, and with good reason – th…
Property experts are buzzing today after the latest housing finance data for November 2008 showed first home buyers are starting to re-enter…
On the basis of yesterday’s housing finance figures Australia might look like an island of relative economic health in a global sea of dis…
This morning’s big economic news contained a glimmer of hope for the property sector, with housing finance commitments jumping 1.3% in Nov…
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has been advised to introduce $3.4 billion worth of tax cuts scheduled for July earlier than expected after yester…
