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Higher and higher

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAR 2017
The Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) update on residential property prices brought home the Reserve Bank of Australia's current concerns and noted in its March monetary policy statement: "Conditions in the housing market vary considerably around ...

Not off the boil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAR 2017
Chinese authorities' regulatory restrictions to cool the housing market appear to be having little impact on property prices. Latest figures show that the average price of new homes in 70 Chinese cities rose by 0.3% in the month of February following ...

More fires than hires

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAR 2017
... Australian central bank for another rate cut. However, this is easier said than done due to the continued bump in property prices and expectations for further gains. The WBC-Melbourne Institute "house expectations index" jumped by 2.2% in March from ...

Going good but there are risks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 MAR 2017
... prices have continued rising since - 196% up from the September quarter of 2003 to the September quarter of 2016. Property prices could fall one day but not until interest rates increase significantly that it creates mortgage defaults and the unemployment ...

SMSFs no influence on housing

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2017
... latest insights from Class. The software firm's latest SMSF Benchmark Report shows SMSFs' are not influencing high property prices because, as a sector, they have negligible exposure to residential property. The research shows SMSFs own less than 1% ...

Look offshore for income: SSGA

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 10 FEB 2017
... key issues that may suppress domestic dividend growth, including reduced demand for resources from China; high property prices; more fully-valued banking stocks; and constraints on consumer spending in the midst of "increasing government austerity."

Housing market faces heavy downside risk

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 19 JAN 2017
... considerable risk, according to a new Auscap report. Auscap's analysis noted the general wisdom that because residential property prices haven't experienced a "broad decline" since 1991, housing is considered a safe investment. However, the report argued ...

Moody Aussies

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 JAN 2017
... is being hurt by recent headlines of politicians' travel rorts, the Centrelink debt recovery fiasco, expensive property prices (negative for buyers) and predictions of falling property prices (negative for property investors and home owners) - along ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 DEC 2016
... exports all declined in November from October while employment was flat at a low +1 reading. Australia residential property prices The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) reports that the weighted average of residential property prices in Australia's ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 DEC 2016
... in the previous month. Australia new home sales Tighter lending standards, slowing wages growth and still high property prices may have finally broken the back of the Australian housing market. Latest data from the Housing Industry Association (HIA) ...