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BPM measures carbon impact

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2008
... profits and dividends. The service can be used by super funds to assess the impact of rising inflation, declining property prices and share market falls on their underlying listed and unlisted portfolios. "We build these tools and give them all sorts ...

G20 to the rescue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2008
... are either slowing or retreating not only in the US but also in almost every economy around the world. Land - US property prices have been trending lower since early 2005 and first sank into negative as early as the third quarter of 2006. Likewise, US ...

Macq inv lending sale won't hit Lever

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2008
... asset at a loss, Macquarie takes on the shortfall. However, Firth said this would require a 50 per cent drop in property prices for this to happen. Macquarie did not provide any figures of how many people have signed on to use the product or how much ...

Head or tails?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2008
... is not giving me a cent to ease my mortgage debt?' This is simplistic but true. High interest rates and falling property prices have hit both gargantuan financial institutions and ordinary home borrowers alike. Much as the 228 'rejectors' would want ...

BOQ writes off franchise loans

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2008
... for the owner. Reasons for the poor performance include the weak state of demand for credit in Sydney; declining property prices in many areas; and a lack of marketing support for a little-known brand. Franchise owners also complained about the cost ...

Rents to jump 50 pct, inflation to hit 4 pct

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2008
... everyone will have a $5 million home." Meanwhile the IMF has released a report arguing that Australian residential property prices could be heading for a fall because values have jumped too high relative to fundamentals. IMF commentary like this is hardly ...

Instalment warrants spice up property portfolio

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 18 FEB 2008
... investment that is subject to the loan. The super fund is therefore only liable to the value of the investment. If property prices decrease, the non-recourse loan means that the lender's recovery is limited to the collateral.

Rising Star calls for home loan tax relief

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 22 NOV 2007
... Thomas, technical and research manager at AXA said "My reservation or comment on it would be all it might do is make property prices go up, because you'd actually have more demand because property prices in theory are a factor of demand and supply." ...

Daily economic round-up

... value of loans written in January reached $20.18 billion which is 9.1 per cent above a year ago. With the lull in property prices the average loan size has fallen by about $3,000 on average so that the national average is now $223,700. The number of ...

Survey predicts more mortgage defaults

... those surveyed would not be quite as pessimistic today as they were then," he said. The respondents said that property prices would remain about the same for the next 12 months although interestingly, nearly 50 per cent of referrers reported an increase ...