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Property overpowers asset class returns

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUL 2017
Residential property outperformed other asset classes, generating 8.1% and 10.3% per annum returns over a 10 and 20-year period respectively, new research on long-term investing shows. Australian listed property however, is the worst-performing asset ...

Australia a nation changing fast: Census

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 27 JUN 2017
... has climbed from 27% in 2011 to 31% in 2016, a change that will only exacerbate concerns about Australia's residential property market and housing affordability. This may explain, however, why apartments, flats and townhouses have increased as a share ...

Cooling property market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JUN 2017
... Prudential Regulations Authority (APRA) would be pleased with the National Statistician's latest update on residential property prices. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released figures that showed the weighted average residential property price ...

DomaCom chasing Federal Court exemption

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 5 JUN 2017
... and capital return that the underlying property delivers," DomaCom chief executive Arthur Naoumidis said. "Residential property can be used as an anchor asset class for the superannuation portfolios of Generation X and Y investors which can then expand ...

Hassle-free housing investment

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUN 2017
... said the firm is more than happy to fill a gap left by the lack of real estate investment trusts (REITs) for residential property in Australia. "It's Australia's favourite asset class and yet it's largely inaccessible, so the ability to have any kind ...

Two Victorian advisers cop bans

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 16 MAY 2017
... Heycock and employee Stuart Arnold-Levy provided unlicensed and poor advice, particularly in relation to residential property development. Heycock and Arnold-Levy, both from Vitoria, have been banned from providing financial services for six years and ...

LRBA loophole for SMSFs removed

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAY 2017
... billion in LRBAs, with these financial instruments being predominantly used to invest in residential and non-residential property in an almost 50-50 split. SMSF Association head of policy Jordan George said that the while the association understands ...

Advice associations respond to Federal Budget

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAY 2017
... retirees enjoy a more comfortable and sustainable retirement, while simultaneously delivering more supply to the residential property market," Kewin said. Kewin said strategy around the First Home Super Saver Scheme must be well considered. "This comes ...

Terrible tax policies of the last 25 years

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2017
... sector employment," Eslake said. The decision to allow self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs) to borrow for residential property investment - Howard/Costello, 2007 In 2007, during the last months of the Howard government, limited recourse borrowing ...

Millennials' financial heartache drives P2P lending

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 27 APR 2017
... chose to invest via RateSetter's P2P lending platform as they are currently unable or unwilling to invest in residential property. The increase in investment however did not only come from millennials. In the past 12 months, post-millennials, pre-retirees ...