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ACTU slams plans to Americanise the superannuation system

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2024
... workers' super when they had the chance, are planning to force workers to raid their retirement savings just to get into the housing market, and just this week floated that women should have to raid their super to deal with the costs of domestic ...

Liberal MPs slammed for 'dangerous' super policy

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 OCT 2024
... representatives? Or should we be aiming higher?" Delahunty said. "MPs of all political parties need to focus on fixing the housing supply crisis, rather than proposing options which risk driving up prices through increased demand, without offering solutions ...

Market has priced in 'too many' rate cuts

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 OCT 2024
... could re-accelerate in Q1 next year, driven by factors like commodity prices bottoming out, and potential improvement in housing and investment cycles," he said. "The anticipated pick-up of economic activity will likely lead to the building of inflation ...

Ontario Teachers', Hines snap up build-to-rent portfolio

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 1 OCT 2024
... expected to keep growing and more people choosing to rent, there's strong long-term potential in the country's multi-family housing market. "These assets provide us with a strategic entry point into Brisbane and, working alongside Hines and Arklife ...

Limiting negative gearing could add $2bn in annual revenue

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 30 SEP 2024
... treasurers to do that, but we have made it very clear through the course of this week that we have a broad and ambitious housing policy already and those changes aren't part of it. "We've made it really clear through the course of the week that our priority ...

ACCC approves Lendlease, Stockland property deal

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2024
... competition regulator raised concerns in July that the deal could affect the supply of residential masterplanned community housing in Illawarra, North West Perth, Ipswich, and Moreton Bay. Its investigation later found few competing projects to challenge ...

Household wealth rises in June quarter

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2024
... territories, despite high interest rates," ABS head of finance statistics Mish Tan said. "This largely reflects ongoing housing supply constraints and an uptick in investor activity over the quarter." The growth in household wealth was also supported ...

Super for housing debate heats up

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 23 SEP 2024
... government infrastructure projects, and low productivity in the unionised parts of the industry." He said the solution to housing affordability is to facilitate more supply and less immigration, with funds "liberated from superannuation" to ensure that ...

Calls for independent oversight on mortgage stress

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 23 SEP 2024
... despite this, regulators continue to impose additional constraints on lending, competition among banks and restricting housing supply. "In recent months the RBA stated that, 'despite pressures on households' budgets, almost all borrowers have been able ...

Super for housing to exacerbate affordability crisis: Eslake

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 19 SEP 2024
... the report commissioned by the Super Members Council (SMC), Eslake said that decades of evidence clearly show that when housing demand outstrips supply, policies which have allowed Australians to pay more for housing that they would otherwise be able ...