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Law firm deems SIV changes unworkable

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 16 FEB 2015
... include investing minimum 50% in venture capital and small caps funds, along with a ban on direct investment in residential property (potentially extending to residential property development). However, Eugene Chen, a special counsel and head of China ...

One third of first home buyers are investors

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 15 JAN 2015
Contrary to first home buyers being frozen out of the residential property market, evidence is mounting that many of them are just shifting how they access the market. Concerns about first home buyers (FHB) being denied access to the residential property ...

SMSF court case highlights penalty uncertainties

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2014
... has highlighted the uncertainty around penalties. The fund, totaling more than $260k, was used to purchase residential property and then lease it to the trustees' son, as well as to buy stud cattle, a caravan and other motor vehicles. Auditor contravention ...

Cash rate more likely to fall than rise: PIMCO

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2014
... "nowhere on the agenda." "The ability for [the RBA] to cut rates will partly depend upon what's happening in residential property prices," Mead told Financial Standard. "But to the extent there can be some other mechanisms put in place in order to slow ...

REST announces JV with US property developer

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2014
REST Industry Super has joined forces with US residential property manager and developer Greystar Real Estate Partners, in a move to increase its exposure to residential developments in the United States. The ten year joint venture means REST will be ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 11 NOV 2014
... was up 13 points at 5,553. In local economic news on Tuesday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases residential property prices for the September quarter. Reserve Bank of Australia Head of Domestic Markets Department Chris Aylmer is scheduled ...

RBA should take action on negative gearing: AUI

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2014
... benefit which negative gearing provided (through construction) has now largely fallen away." Bryant said that "residential property is also over-represented for many investors when their existing home is included in measuring the assets they have. "Removing ...

Trilogy Funds makes $9m property investment

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2014
... investors a "foot in the door" to returns of 8% pa paid monthly; as opposed to other asset classes such as direct residential property investment, which generally return around 3-4% pa. Arnold said Trilogy Funds is seeing a lot of interest in syndicates ...

RBA to business: release the animal in you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2014
... China crashing and burning. "Growth in China has remained close to the target of 7.5 per cent, though Chinese residential property prices have declined in recent months. Chinese authorities at various levels are responding to these developments with ...

Brumbie: Super idea, super silly reaction

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2014
... inevitable Australian property crash because for some unfathomable reason they are yet to grasp how the Australian residential property and mortgage market operates differently to the US and Europe. Meanwhile on stage right we have most economists telling ...