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The hits keep coming for Australian mortgage holders, with the Reserve Bank of Australia’s latest hike hitting homeowners harder than ever.
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The Reserve Bank of Australia has hiked interest rates for a seventh consecutive month, warning that it now expects inflation to peak at a far higher-than-expec…
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House prices in some of Melbourne’s most sought-after suburbs have fallen over the past year, new data shows, as buyers’ budgets are hit by rising interest rate…
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The Federal Treasure, Dr Jim Chalmers, delivered his first Federal Budget on Tuesday 25th October from Parliament House in Canberra.
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House prices could fall by a whopping 20 per cent in the next year in Sydney and by 17 per cent in Hobart, a new forecast has found.
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Perth house prices fell 1.5 per cent over the September quarter but are still 7.9 per cent up from the peak in June 2022, according to new data from Domain.
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Rental properties now sit on the market for just 19 days, according to a national report highlighting the intense pressure house-hunting tenants are under.
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More than half of NSW MPs own two properties or more, parliamentary documents reveal, and one member owns 12.
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NSW is the first jurisdiction in Australia to introduce a new insurance product that offers 10 years’ protection for buyers of residential apartments.
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When it comes to acquiring the largest source of wealth for most Australians – housing – it’s increasingly a family affair.
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The New South Wales government has announced a doubling of payments to private landowners who host major transmission links.
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A lot of questions are being asked about short-term rentals of late but there is another that rarely gets raised in a society such as ours.
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