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Calls for Royal Commission into housing

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUN 2021
... was a decade ago and almost three times the value of the superannuation system. In a paper, they argued that the hot residential property market is at the expense of broader economic stability. UNSW researchers Hal Pawson, Bill Randolph and Fatemeh Aminpour ...

Chief economist update: How do you solve a problem like Australia's housing?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUN 2021
... thousands -millions? -- in fact) and a day late but the Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) recently released Residential Property Price Indexes: Eight Capital Cities told us what we already know. Weighted average of the eight capital cities in ...

Putting the local property boom in perspective

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUN 2021
Knight Frank's latest global house prices index has provided a bit of perspective on the red hot residential property markets of Australia's capital cities. There was a 7.3% average change in prices across 56 countries and territories, with Turkey experiencing ...

Superannuation assets hit $3.13tn

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAY 2021
... and term deposits have a 19% allocation of $149.4 billion, followed by unlisted trusts at 13% or $99.2 billion. Non-residential real property is the next most-popular asset class at 11% or $83 billion.

ERS applicants $3100 worse off

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAY 2021
... suggests. "The banks themselves offered mortgage holidays, and State governments implemented moratoriums with regards to residential tenancy. However, more should have been done to avoid the necessity of Australians withdrawing from their super," the ...

Australian Unity to acquire aged care facility provider

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAY 2021
... retirement living portfolio in acquiring Greengate Partnerships. Greengate owns and manages retirement villages and residential communities in Sydney and Brisbane: St Brigid's Green in Maroubra; St Patrick's Green in Kogarah; and St Luke's Green in Woolloongabba. ...

Aged care workers depended on ERS: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAY 2021
... Community aged care workers saw the biggest decreases in their median account balance of 45% to $12,769, followed by residential care who saw their balance decline by 40% to $14,975. "In January 2021, the median account balance for members working in ...

Aged care expenditure to jump 37%

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2021
... response to recommendations that arose from the Royal Commission. Almost half of this will be directed to reforming residential aged care with $6.5 billion ear-marked for in-home facilities investment. While Australia's aged care system services just ...

UK lender targets SMSFs in Australia

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2021
... launched in Australia under chief executive David Ingram. It matches investors with developers of small to medium-sized residential property projects via its platform. In Australia, CrowdProperty will be targeting SMSFs alongside wholesale investors ...

Housing market reaches new heights

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAY 2021
The residential real estate market in Australia is estimated to have surged above $8 trillion, new analysis from CoreLogic shows. The housing market now stands at $8.1 trillion with the increase in value following capital gains in real estate markets ...