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Gearing for SMSFs won't be significant: Colley

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2015
... accounted for about 15% of the total pool of SMSFs and it was a misconception that most investment was in residential property.

No changes to neg gearing, super in Budget

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2015
... negative gearing or superannuation. On speculation that the government might act to limit negative gearing on residential property investment, when Prime Minister Tony Abbott was asked at a media conference if the tax breaks would be wound back, he answered ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2015
... AND CoreLogic RP Data Residential Land Report for the December quarter and the NAB's quarterly Australian residential property survey. In equities news, the chief executives of Macquarie Group, National Australia Bank and Commonwealth Bank are due to ...

AMP chief economist says housing future messy

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 10 APR 2015
... return. So for an investor, these other assets continue to represent better value." Oliver's report does say residential property over the "very long term" has provided a similar return for investors as Australian shares. "Since the 1920s housing has ...

SMSFs attract too much criticism

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2015
... arrangements put the entire economy at risk of collapse, Burgess presented a chart showing the performance of residential property superimposed against the growth in limited recourse borrowing arrangements. LRBAs barely registered as a thin, flatish ...

Law firm deems SIV changes unworkable

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 16 FEB 2015
... include investing minimum 50% in venture capital and small caps funds, along with a ban on direct investment in residential property (potentially extending to residential property development). However, Eugene Chen, a special counsel and head of China ...

One third of first home buyers are investors

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 15 JAN 2015
Contrary to first home buyers being frozen out of the residential property market, evidence is mounting that many of them are just shifting how they access the market. Concerns about first home buyers (FHB) being denied access to the residential property ...

SMSF court case highlights penalty uncertainties

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2014
... has highlighted the uncertainty around penalties. The fund, totaling more than $260k, was used to purchase residential property and then lease it to the trustees' son, as well as to buy stud cattle, a caravan and other motor vehicles. Auditor contravention ...

Cash rate more likely to fall than rise: PIMCO

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2014
... "nowhere on the agenda." "The ability for [the RBA] to cut rates will partly depend upon what's happening in residential property prices," Mead told Financial Standard. "But to the extent there can be some other mechanisms put in place in order to slow ...

REST announces JV with US property developer

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2014
REST Industry Super has joined forces with US residential property manager and developer Greystar Real Estate Partners, in a move to increase its exposure to residential developments in the United States. The ten year joint venture means REST will be ...