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Better, but not good enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUN 2017
... also lags." And risks remain. The OECD highlighted the financial risk from elevated and rising credit growth and house prices and interest rate gaps - monetary policy divergence between the US and the Eurozone and Japan. "Closing this policy-path gap ...

Stamp duty axing treated with caution

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUN 2017
... understands why many first home buyers will greet the news with excitement, the policy may only serve to increase house prices. "This is a small win for some, but the reality is that house prices still remain out of reach of first home buyers," Shorte ...

Be careful what you wish for

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUN 2017
... that the five city capital aggregate property prices for all dwellings increased by 8.5% over the past 12 months - house prices gained 9.2% while prices for units rose by 3.6%. The wish, hope and prayer are for property prices to come down to allow the ...

The CPI report that confirms all biases

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 APR 2017
... property prices were easing. The ABS property price index showed that the annual growth if the weighted average of house prices of Australia's eight capital cities steadily slowed from 10.7% in September quarter to 3.5% exactly a year later. This has ...

China's off to a good 2017 start

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 APR 2017
... mere 0.9% in the year to March from 0.8% in the previous month and below expectations for a 1.0% increase. Rising house prices is not good. Despite recent tougher purchase restrictions to cool the property market, latest data show that average prices ...

Confidence slip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 APR 2017
... given low wage growth - 1.9% in the year to the December quarter - and large mortgage repayments (owing to expensive house prices) that should rise more following the out-of-cycle rate hikes by lenders. This is not lost on Australian consumers as the ...

Housing affordability threatens super's future

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAR 2017
... capital gains discount and the rate of negative gearing, noting that among the many factors present in the rise of house prices is the increasing presence of investors in the Australian property market which has effectively "squeezed first home buyers ...

Higher and higher

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAR 2017
... (inc. Gold Coast), Adelaide and Perth -- of all dwelling prices increased by 11.7% in the year to February 2016, with house prices up 12.1% and those for units up 9.2%.

Access to super for housing is still bad policy

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAR 2017
... retirement," FSC chief executive Sally Loane said. "Withdrawing superannuation savings to buy a house - especially when house prices appear to be at the high end of the cycle in the major states - will not help first home buyers into the market. It will ...

RBA zeroes in on balance sheets

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAR 2017
... strength and resilience of the banks' and household balance sheets - rather than indicators such as credit or rising house prices - are a key focus for the RBA, assistant governor Michele Bullock said. Bullock told this morning's Bloomberg address on ...