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Falling housing market puts baby boomers Super at risk-warning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUL 2004
Falling house prices could dramatically impact on Australians who depend on equity in the family home or investment property to provide for their retirement, a building advisory service warned yesterday. Archicentre Queensland manager Ron Tanton said ...

ABS says city house prices up 2.5% in March quarter

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUN 2004
Capital city house prices rose just 2.5% in the first three months of the year, the smallest rise in three years, new figures showed today. But the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) said the only city to record a fall was Melbourne, down 1.3%, in ...

RBA decision to leave rates expected and clear cut: economists

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAY 2004
... go next." Mr Koukoulas said the Australian central bank would be focussing on the interplay between how falls in house prices impact on consumer wealth, consumer confidence and consumer spending. "So it is all consumer - that is the critical element," ...

All eyes this week on RBA governor speech: economists

... to a reduction in investor demand thereafter," he said. "This latest move adds to the long list of negatives for house prices including oversupply conditions, low rental yields and last year's rise in interest rates." Westpac chief economist Bill Evans ...

Consumer sentiment rises in April

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 APR 2004
... financial outlook may also point to consumers being quite unconvinced by constant media warnings of likely falls in house prices." The strength of the share market and interest rate stability had also helped consumers' assessment of their finances compared ...

Home loan affordability lowest in over eight years

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAR 2004
... affordability of home loans. Released today, the survey showed the decline had come from a continuing increase in median house prices across the country, coupled with the Reserve Bank of Australia's interest rate rises of November and December 2003. ...

House prices after surge 6% in Q4

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAR 2004
Australian house prices skyrocketed in the final three months of 2003. Australian Bureau of Statistics figures released yesterday showed a house price index jumped 6% in the December quarter - the largest quarterly rise in almost 15 years. This compared ...

Building approvals slide again in January: ABS

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAR 2004
... have taken some steam out of the housing market. But separate Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) figures showed house prices increased 6% in the December quarter, almost double September's rate. The ABS said building approvals fell 3.3% in January ...

House prices expected to grow for at least three years

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2004
... Shrapnel's director of building services and construction, today said that despite interest rates beginning to rise, house prices will continue to increase until at least mid-way through 2006. For Sydney and Melbourne, the growth will only be at a modest ...

Australians still hungry for property AMP indicator reveals

... higher than normal activity by investors which has not only caused housing prices to surge, but has taken the ratio of house prices to average earnings to record levels." "While the usual alarm bells for a housing crash aren't present, such as sky high ...