The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) recently revealed that Australia’s yearly population growth rate slowed for the fourth consecutive quarter, and the Housing Industry Association (HIA) argued that this could
The recent Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) figures revealed that overall value of home finance commitments declined by 5.1% between July 2017 and July 2018. Further, the value of commitments
Last week, CoreLogic Head of Research Tim Lawless delved into market data examining the shifting values over the past year outside of capital cities. From there, he found a slowdown
Over the recent weeks, Australia saw Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA), Australia and New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ), and Westpac Banking Corp. (Westpac) increasing their variable mortgage rates. While a mortgage
There’s no doubt that the lending environment is different than it was a few years ago. The main reason why was the APRA lending restrictions, which limited investor lending as well
National debt levels can be hard to understand, not to mention boring. Just to make things clear… The National or Government debt is the amount owed by the government. The Australian Office of Financial Management,
CoreLogic’s recently released Pain and Gain report highlighted a growing divergence between houses and units for loss making resales. Unit markets recorded a higher proportion of loss making resales relative to houses across
The CoreLogic September home value index results released today reported that half of Australia’s capital cities saw values track lower over the past twelve months. The remaining capital cities, as
Property managers can be the best thing to happen to investors, as they take away much of the stress of personally handling your investment property. If they’re not up to the
