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Sydney residential property slumps

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 7 JAN 2019
Sydney residential property was hit hard in 2018, as house prices slid nationally to end the year with the biggest decline quarter on quarter since 2008, according to CoreLogic. Sydney dwellings values fell 8.9% over the year and total returns were ...

Advice firm runs rule over Labor policy

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2018
... examined. On negative gearing, Philpot said Labor has committed to abolishing negative gearing on existing residential property. Negative gearing on new property developments will continue. "With the property market already going through difficult issues ...

Advice group rebuilds following regulatory headwinds

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 26 NOV 2018
A financial advice group specialising in self-managed superannuation funds and residential property investment acknowledged it's hurt from recent regulatory burdens. However, there are opportunities afoot for the ASX-listed business, including an entry ...

Chief economist update: As safe as Australian houses?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 NOV 2018
... because Australian property prices are on the down low. The Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) 'Residential Property Price Index' report showed the weighted average of eight capital cities house prices fell by 0.6% in the year to the ...

Scrapping LRBAs would be detrimental to investors

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 NOV 2018
... limited recourse borrowing arrangements in their entirety would be too heavy handed, saying critics often cite residential property spruikers to cast shadows. Thinktank chief executive Jonathan Street said limited recourse borrowing arrangements (LRBAs) ...

Labor Government on the cards: Spot poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 4 OCT 2018
... most likely. One-in-five readers were confident in the possibilities of a global trade war and a domestic residential property crash respectively will play out. A small contingent (10%) believes that China will slow down or fall into a recession. Labor ...

DomaCom concludes Federal Court action

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 25 SEP 2018
... DomaCom fund. The Court said the primary judge's decision was incorrect in concluding that the leasing of the residential property held by the sub-fund to a child of a member of the Benson Family Superannuation Fund was a breach of the sole purpose test. ...

Customer data protections progress

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 AUG 2018
... loan if they switched to another lender - but many choose not to or don't know how. With over 4000 different residential property loans on offer, it is no wonder that customers struggle to determine which home loan is best for them," Morrison said. "Many ...

Finding value in Fairfax

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 AUG 2018
... short position in the banks, Hopperton explained. "To have a view on banks you really need to have a view on residential property... Australia is now home to the most leveraged households in the world, and we don't think the demand for credit will ...

Federal Court rules partly in favour of DomaCom

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 14 AUG 2018
... employed as a state manager at DomaCom) invested in the fund as a means of testing the related party use of residential property within self-managed superannuation funds. In June 2017, DomaCom resolved to support the Federal Court action, which appealed ...