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Rebecca Pike| Australian Broker| 21 June 2018 https://www.brokernews.com.au/news/breaking-news/brokers-can-help-stressed-rentvesters-251411.aspx ‘Rentvesting’ is often touted as offering the best of both worlds. You can live where you want in a rental property, while getting someone else to pay off the mortgage on your investment property. But new data from online mortgage marketplace HashChing has found that rentvesting is […]

Clancy Yeates| Sydney Morning Herald| 19 June 2018 https://www.smh.com.au/money/investing/why-this-house-price-slump-is-different-from-the-last-one-20180613-p4zl7u.html Amid all the gloom engulfing the housing market, here’s a sliver of more positive news you may have missed. The Westpac Melbourne Institute index of consumer sentiment recently suggested home buyer demand is gradually recovering from its recent low, with the number of consumers who think […]

Clancy Yeates| 18 June 2018| Sydney Morning Herald https://www.smh.com.au/business/banking-and-finance/highly-geared-borrowers-tipped-to-face-extra-scrutiny-20180615-p4zlp7.html Property investors seeking to borrow many times their income are tipped to come under increased scrutiny, as banks respond to regulatory pressure to restrict higher-risk mortgage lending. Following a direction from the Australian Prudential and Regulation Authority (APRA) in April, banks are grappling with how to […]

David Scutt| Business Insider| 1 June 2018 https://www.businessinsider.com.au/australia-home-prices-valuation-location-analysis-2018-6 Australia’s median home price fell for an eighth consecutive month in May, leaving it down 0.4% over the past year, the first decline seen since October 2012. From the recent cyclical peak in September 2017, the median price has fallen by 1.1% to $555,274. However, Australia’s housing […]

Jacob Greiber & Ben Potter| 13 June 2018| Australian Financial Review https://www.afr.com/news/economy/monetary-policy/property-falls-manageable-says-rbas-lowe-20180613-h11ch9 Reserve Bank of Australia governor Philip Lowe has downplayed concerns over falling property prices, saying they are still 40 per cent higher in Sydney and Melbourne than they were just a few years ago. “As long as it’s not a very large decline – it’s […]

The market pauses for breath. Negative reports for the big capital city property markets. Banks on the nose. But, look past the headlines and there is still a lot of positive happening. Australia’s population growth remains strong, this week the ABS predicted the nation’s population would hit 25m this August. While investors may be sitting on the sidelines, […]