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Easing Libor pains

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2009
... basis points below last Friday's close and 403 basis points down from the 10 October 2008 spike of 4.82 per cent when it first dawned on one and sundry that the world is collapsing into a global recession. Why is the Libor rate important? Libor is important ...

Residential property wins

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2009
... rise as housing demand is stimulated by government policy and population growth. Undersupply not only affects first home buyers, but also investors seeking new opportunities," he said. In June last year, Financial Standard reported that Government-backed ...

Damned if you do

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2009
... billion that bulk of which came in the form of pre-Christmas cash payments, aimed at helping the elderly, poorer families and first-home buyers. This was criticised as a short-term fix. But didn't retail spending go up and Australians were able to have ...

First home buyers tap $21k bonus

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 4 NOV 2008
If website clicks are anything to go by, then the latest data from X Inc Finance suggests first home buyers are wading back to the market thanks to new government incentives. Jennifer Nielsen, chief executive of Loan Market Group, which includes X Inc ...

Blame planners, not me: Costello

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2008
... in the US via the promotion of "paper-thin downpayments" that "pushed for ways to get lenders to give mortgage loans to first-time buyers with shaky financing and incomes" that might have inadvertently lead to the NINJA-loan induced housing-credit bubble ...

Housing affordability report fails to deliver

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUN 2008
... report the major talking point was not the report itself but the old chestnut that housing interest rates for first home buyers should be tax deductible. Housing minister Tanya Plibersek sought to quickly hose down the issue as she told Sky News such ...

Value of investment housing loans apps up 1.4 pct

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2008
... commitments and investment housing commitments decreased 2.7 per cent. The dampening sentiment among all buyers means first home buyers increased their market share during April from 16.4 per cent of all home finance applications to 16.9 per cent. Meanwhile ...

2020 Summit push for life long accounts

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 22 APR 2008
... de-accumulation income stream products and is soon to move to offer parallel savings schemes for non-super in the form of first home saver accounts (FHSA). Off the back of FHSA it should only be a short time before the concept expands to cover education ...

Bravura becomes a prime buy target

... third-party superannuation administrators. Lift's troubles has certainly spoiled Bravura's performance record to date. In the first half of 2007, the group saw earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) jump 87 per cent to ...

Better FHSAs needed for buyers

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2008
... and IFF have banded together to propose measures tailoring First Home Saver Accounts to better aid struggling first home buyers. Fiona Reynolds, chief executive of AIST, said the scheme should be structured in such a way that it is first-rate for first ...