01 May 2012
MELBOURNE'S property market has staged a surprise turnaround in the March quarter says smartmoney.com.au, with the median house price up 1.6% to $529,000.
10 Apr 2012
THE Housing Industry Association has recorded a 12.8% fall in new home building for the last quarter and warned of “deteriorating conditions” for the housing industry.
The HIA forecast a 5.9% decline in new builds in 2012, to a level of just 139,360...
02 Apr 2012
BUYING property is something most of us aspire to, yet many people looking to enter the property market don’t have a proper plan or strategy to help them realise this dream.
ActonAdvice financial planning and mortgage advice specialist Lynette Murray said there were six common mistakes of which to be aware.
02 Apr 2012
GET the most from your mortgage by looking beyond the interest rate debate and putting loan features, fees and financial objectives into the equation.
According to Mortgage Choice spokesperson Belinda Williamson, borrowers can do their finances a favour by choosing a home loan on more than interest rates alone.
29 Mar 2012
WHEN it comes to home loan pre-approvals it appears not all are created equal, according to Smartline Personal Mortgage Advisers.
Smartline said people who wanted to go house hunting with complete confidence knowing that they would be able to get a loan and how much they could borrow would do well...
08 Mar 2012
AS A nation, Australia needs to see more geographic diversity in the labour market, according to research by experts.
RP Data research director Tim Lawless discusses the issue in more detail.
06 Mar 2012
IT IS no surprise that most of us consider downsizing our homes as we near retirement. And if it means less time and money spent maintaining a property and more spent enjoying retirement, then why not?
Citibank’s Citi-Fin-Q survey, which was released recently, highlighted that our views of home ownerships are evolving.
17 Feb 2012
BEFORE diving into purchasing an investment property, we need to think about a lot more than just location, location, location.
17 Feb 2012
ARE we allowed to borrow with our SMSF to get a property in the US? We have about $60,000 available to use for a US property but need another $20,000 to get into the sort of property we want.
06 Feb 2012
AN INTERESTING fact in the latest Australian Bureau of Statistics housing finance data was the continued trend towards fixed rate loans.
The data showed over the month of November 11.1% of borrowers opted for a fixed rate mortgage – that’s the highest percentage of fixed rate commitments since June 2008.
