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Travel booking company Trivago has been fined $44.7 million for misleading consumers about its hotel room rates.
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It turns out that legal ownership in the metaverse is not at all simple.
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A new survey suggests two-thirds of young voters have conceded they may never own a home.
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There are still some affordable rental properties available, but you have to be looking in the right places.
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The Reserve Bank of Australia is expected to announce multiple increases in its benchmark interest rate this year.
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Houses in regional Australia have experienced outstanding capital growth, and there’s no end yet in sight.
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Queensland's property laws have come under fire as more developers use sunset clauses to cancel contracts and leave would-be first home buyers priced out of the…
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If economists are right, Anthony Albanese will have to learn a new unemployment rate when the latest labour force figures are released.
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The highest regional population growth in Western Australia was in Busselton and surrounding towns, which recorded a 3 per cent growth.
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The ingredients that have led to advertised rentals increasing by up to 22 per cent over the past year have become more potent and will only add to the cost of …
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Rents have soared because of a record low number of available rental properties in a "crisis" that analysts predict is set to worsen.
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Another building company has collapsed following the voluntary wind-up of New Sensation Homes.
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