Motivated home buyers thick on the ground in mixed market
A solid crowd turned out for the auction of 43 Range Street in Camberwell. Photo: Supplied Residential buyers continued to back bricks and mortar assets on Saturday, with many ignoring the Reserve...
View ArticleTennis star MP says cracking the property market as hard as beating Federer
A government MP has described renters trying to break into the soaring Sydney and Melbourne housing markets as "imprisoned tenant serfs" who are funding the growing wealth of investor "lords". John...
View ArticleHome renovation shows fuelling house price bubble: Treasury
Reno Rumble was the seventh most watched show on Sunday night, with 876,000 viewers. Home renovation shows on television are fuelling house price bubbles in Sydney and part of Melbourne, Treasury...
View ArticleSydney and parts of Melbourne are unequivocally in a house price bubble
Melbourne are "unequivocally" experiencing a house price bubble, according to Treasury secretary John Fraser. Speaking at Senate estimates in Canberra on Monday, Fraser said he ......
View ArticleTony Abbott must do more to improve housing affordability
EDITORIAL Federal Treasury secretary John Fraser used the words "price bubble" and "unequivocal" when describing his concerns...
View ArticleHow should a property bubble be measured?
Our obsession with real estate isn't more extreme than in other countries, says University of NSW Economics PhD and property expert Nigel Stapledon. Australia's housing bubble debate inflated when...
View ArticleJoe Hockey is wrong, houses are becoming unaffordable
Would-be owner-occupiers have become a minority in a housing market they once dominated. The latest figures released on Tuesday show would-be owner-occupiers accounted for just 48.4 per cent of the...
View ArticleAssistant Treasurer Josh Frydenberg bursts real estate bubble speculation
Josh Frydenberg has dismissed talk of a housing bubble in Melbourne and Sydney. Photo: Sean Davey There is no housing bubble, according to Assistant Treasurer Josh Frydenberg, despite Treasury...
View ArticleHousing market coming off the boil, with growth set to slow in 2015
ANALYSIS Property prices in Sydney and Melbourne will still shoe grow healthy growth in 2015, but prices in other cities might grow faster. Photo: James Alcock After 2½ years of rising prices, the...
View ArticleSydney MP defends Joe Hockey's controversial advice for home buyers
Craig Laundy defends treasurer after he was accused of being out of touch with ordinary people...
View Article4 charts of the 'largest housing bubble on record'
Australia’s households are the third most indebted in the world, relative to GDP, after having passed the Netherlands in 2014. Aussies are now closing in on the leader of the pack, Denmark, and second...
View ArticleHouse prices: who's to blame for driving them through the roof?
CBA chief economist identifies central banks as the culprits, says but Australia's housing market is not a 'bubble'...
View ArticleHow to make a flipping profit
Sydney's outer suburbs and Melbourne's middle-ring are the most popular for real estate "flippers" – those who hope to buy property and reselling it quickly for a profit. To get more Money more often,...
View ArticleBubbles and squeaks over housing market in Tony Abbott's chamber of slogans
Tony Abbott accuses Bill Shorten of bringing the house down: ‘Why does this leader of the opposition want to punish the people of Sydney?’...
View ArticleBurnt by Sydney property prices? Head south
Melbourne, recently. Photo: Simon O'Dwyer As Sydney house prices soar, a leading developer is hoping to convince investors to move their money to Australia's other property hotspot - Melbourne. With...
View ArticleKirribilli House lifestyle blinds Tony Abbott to the cost of Australia's...
Bubble? PM likes rising house prices PM plays to the base on housing It's not hard to lose perspective up there on the verandah of Kirribilli House. The tonsured lawn rolls down to the silvered waters...
View ArticleOECD warns Australia to keep further rate cuts in reserve
4 June 2015 From the section Business The OECD warned that continuing momentum in Australia's property market added "to the risk of a sharp correction" Australia has been cautioned by the OECD to keep...
View ArticleAbbott fails to act on Treasury Secretary's call on housing bubble...
(Source: Australian Greens) Under questioning from the Greens Spokesperson for Finance, Senator Peter Whish-Wilson, the Treasury Secretary John Fraser said that, for Sydney and parts of Melbourne, the...
View ArticleSydney in grip of house price bubble: treasury chief
Sydney is in the grip of a housing bubble, Australia’s most senior economic bureaucrat said in one of the strongest warnings yet by a government official. “When you look at the housing price bubble...
View ArticleSydney is 'unequivocally' in a housing bubble says Treasury Secretary
It's one of the strongest official warnings about the current surge in property prices; the Commonwealth Treasury secretary says Sydney is 'unequivocally' in a housing bubble. Last year Sydney house...
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