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DTI limits and buffers in APRA’s arsenal to manage credit risk

Annie Kane| Mortgage Business| 11 November 2021 https://www.mortgagebusiness.com.au/breaking-news/16240-apra-consults-on-new-credit-risk-management-approach?utm_source=MortgageBusiness&utm_campaign=Mortgage%20Business11_11_2021&utm_medium=email&utm_content=1&utm_emailID=8a8e1573aa7aed348b3ce216911220f449b12b769f3b1261337d04577713208e Debt-to-income ratio limits and serviceability buffer changes are to be embedded into APRA’s standard for credit risk management. The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has written to banks asking for feedback on proposed its proposal to ‘formalise and embed’ credit-based macroprudential policy measures within its prudential standard for credit risk. […]

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$47,000 gone: Major new mortgage rules from Monday

Lucy Dean| Yahoo Finance| 30 October 2021 $47,000 gone: Major new mortgage rules from Monday (yahoo.com) Australians hoping to buy property will be forced to prove they can repay their mortgage if rates rise 3 per cent, under new rules coming into place on Monday 1 November.  The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) announced the higher […]

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APRA runs through lending control toolkit

Sarah Simpkins| Mortgage Business| 12 November 2021 APRA runs through lending control toolkit – Mortgage Business The prudential regulator has outlined the next intervening steps it could take, as housing prices and debt levels continue to climb. APRA released its Macroprudential Policy Framework information paper on Thursday (11 November), setting outs its framework, options and […]

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Why Todays Announcement Won’t Impact the Property Market that Much

After a record-breaking year of property growth, the regulator has announced limitations on how much the banks can lend.  Accredited Broker believes that this will have a minimal impact. In an effort to stop stellar growth, the banking regulator (APRA) will be requiring the banks to increase the interest rate at which they assess mortgage […]

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Housing price growth tipped to slow to 7pc

Michael Bleby| Australian Financial Review| 29 September 2021 https://www.afr.com/property/residential/housing-price-growth-tipped-to-slow-to-7pc-20210929-p58vsb Australia’s housing price growth will slow to 7 per cent next year as macroprudential controls add to the headwinds of worsening affordability, reduced immigration and incentives and possibly even higher mortgage rates, AMP Capital chief economist Shane Oliver says. Dr Oliver said he had already predicted […]

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How stamp duty is keeping houses off the market

Michael Bleby| Australian Financial Review| 1 October 2021 https://www.afr.com/property/residential/how-stamp-duty-is-keeping-houses-off-the-market-20210930-p58w9x Rising stamp duty costs have contributed to a drag on the amount of housing stock coming to the market over the past 13 years, new research shows. Stamp duty, a lucrative revenue source for states, is not the only reason for worse housing market liquidity, but […]

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A Shot in the Arm for the Property Market

A Shot in the Arm for the Property Market

Three events occurred recently that will inject life into the property market. First, the ALP lost the Federal Election – removing the threats to negative gearing. Then the Australian Prudential Regulator (APRA) announced changes to lending policy that will make getting a loan easier And, on the same day, the Reserve Bank (RBA) telegraphed that […]

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Good luck forecasting house prices, but one worm has turned

Michael Pascoe| The New Daily| 4 December 2018 there’s no praise or notice for saying what “everybody else” is saying. This leads to the outlier forecasts, the predictions above or below the consensus. These are the ones most likely to get the forecaster’s name in the newspaper and, thus, there is a temptation to go a […]

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Revealed: The Regional Boomtowns Where Home Prices Are Soaring

Isabelle Lane| The New Daily| 28 November 2018 As the property downturn deepens in Sydney and Melbourne, investors are turning their attention to once-ignored regional markets, with one town standing out among the pack of top performers. No longer in Melbourne’s shadow, the Victorian port city of Geelong is the nation’s best performing regional market, according to a new report […]

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Property price falls trigger buyer’s remorse, but long-term perspective is needed

Isabelle Lane| The New Daily|4 December 2018 A survey of 1500 current and prospective home buyers by home loan lender ME found home owners who bought their properties in the past year were significantly more worried about the impact of prices falling than those who had bought three or more years ago. Almost half (46 per cent) of those who […]

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Capital city land price boom continues

Pete Wargent BlogSpot\ 23 October 2018 http://petewargent.blogspot.com/2018/10/land-price-boom-continues.html Land prices up another 16 per cent Property transaction volumes have been crippled in recent months. But one key dynamic has not changed. The capital cities continue to create hundreds of thousands of the most favourable employment opportunities…and there still ain’t any more well-located land. Capital city vacant […]

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First home buyers at highest level in 8 years

Rebecca Pike| Australian Broker| 26 October 2018 https://www.brokernews.com.au/news/breaking-news/first-home-buyers-at-highest-level-in-8-years-256609.aspx Lending to first home buyers has grown by 74% in Sydney in the last year, according to a report released this week. QBE’s Australian Housing Outlook 2018-2021 also looks at property price prediction and expects house prices to grow over the next three years, apart from in […]

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