Micah Guiao| Australian Broker| 21 June 2022 Now is the best time to be a broker (brokernews.com.au) The combination of rising interest rates, higher costs of living, and a cooling market means there has never been a more exciting time to be mortgage broker, says Yellow Brick Road Home Loans. Brokers are poised to play […]
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Annie Kane| 16 June 2022| Mortgage Business Brokers writing majority of bank mortgages – Mortgage Business Nearly 58 per cent of loans funded by banks are originated by the third-party channel, according to APRA statistics. According to the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority’s (APRA) latest Quarterly Authorised Deposit-taking Institution (ADI) Property Exposures publication (for the quarter ended 31 […]
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Elizabeth Redman| 30 May 2022| Domain Australia house prices: After the property boom, what is a normal real estate market? (smh.com.au) The property market has weakened since last autumn’s boom, but with plenty of competition around for the most outstanding homes, agents say it has turned into a more normal market. So what is a […]
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Kate Burke| Domain| 20 June 2022 Australia house prices: The property type defying the downturn, for now (smh.com.au) Property prices for cheaper homes are holding up the best in Sydney and Melbourne’s cooling markets, while affordable homes are seeing the strongest growth in most other cities. Less expensive properties outperformed their pricier counterparts over the […]
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Jason Nassios & James Giesecke| The Conversation| 20 June 2022 Swapping stamp duty for land tax would push down house prices but push up apartment prices, new modelling finds (theconversation.com) In Tuesday’s budget, NSW will announce a switch from stamp duty to land tax. It will become the second Australian jurisdiction to do so, with the […]
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Domain Research| 23 June 2022 Domain Spotlight Report – New South Wales It’s no secret that the NSW property market is the priciest in Australia, and Sydney competes on a global scale as one of the world’s most expensive cities in which to purchase a home. Though you’ll be hard-pressed to match the lifestyle and […]
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James Eyers & Misa Han | The Australian Financial Review | 10 May 2019 https://www.afr.com/business/banking-and-finance/inside-the-westpac-case-that-could-alter-banking-20190510-p51lz4 It’s a case that will define one of the most fundamental jobs of a bank – working out whether to lend to a customer. On one side is the Australian Securities and Investments Commission. The regulator has taken Westpac Banking […]
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James Frost & James Eyers | The Australian Financial Review | 1 May 2019 https://www.afr.com/business/banking-and-finance/anz-says-7-25pc-buffer-has-to-go-20190501-p51j0g ANZ chief executive Shayne Elliott urged the prudential regulator to scale back the buffer requiring new borrowers have the capacity to pay a 7.25 per cent interest rate, warning it was forcing the bank to turn away one in five […]
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Annie Kane | The Adviser | 7 May 2019 https://www.theadviser.com.au/breaking-news/39077-three-quarters-of-smes-believe-bank-appetite-has-decreased Seventy-four per cent of small business owners believe that bank appetite for SME lending has decreased this financial year, while 30 per cent believe that access to capital is the biggest impediment to growth this year. According to a recent survey conducted by specialist business […]
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David Scutt | Business Insider Australia | 10 May 2019 https://www.businessinsider.com.au/australia-house-prices-best-worst-performing-capital-city-2019-5 Australia’s median home price slumped 7.2% in the year to April. An even larger 8.4% decline was recorded in the capital cities in average weighted terms. The price falls in some regional capital city markets were substantially larger than the national average. In others, […]
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Madison Utley | Australian Broker | 9 May 2019 https://www.brokernews.com.au/news/breaking-news/majors-commit-to-hem-alternatives-262695.aspx As Westpac and ASIC continue to clash over responsible lending measures and the big four face remediation bills of more than $5bn, focus has turned once again to the need to improve responsible lending frameworks. The HEM system – which was repeatedly scrutinised during royal commission hearings, […]
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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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