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Financial stability risks escalate: RBA

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 10 OCT 2022
... in a further widening in risk premiums," the review said. "Large and disorderly declines in financial asset and property prices as a result of higher interest rates and increased risk aversion could disrupt key funding markets and strain the balance ...

Beware super home buyer collateral damage: ISA

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAY 2022
... gobble up any extra money first home buyers could take of super." "The nation's five major capital city media property prices could jump between 8-16%." On the matter of affordability, ISA chief executive Bernie Dean concluded: "Even those Australians ...

Industry pans early release superannuation policy

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2022
... get you closer to your dream home or fix Australia's housing crisis. Using super as a deposit will drive up property prices, leaving Australians with higher debt and depleted retirement savings." "First home buyers are being asked to choose between ...

Super should help secure home loans: Inquiry

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2022
... property administration policies. "Otherwise, an increase in households' ability to borrow would likely increase property prices. This recommendation will therefore remove the largest barrier for home buyers; being the deposit," the recommendation ...

Advised clients' major concerns in 2022

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 28 JAN 2022
From skyrocketing property prices to a foreboding stock market crash, financial advisers reveal their clients' main worries in 2022. Wild swings across the local and international share markets is a concern for many clients, particularly as indices ...

Aussie investors retain home bias: Report

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JAN 2022
... share market volatility, but increasingly worried about the economic slowdown (47% cite, up from 21% a year ago), property prices (28%, up from 15%), inflation (25%, up from 11%), and interest rates (24%, up from 4%). The past year has also seen the ...

Tax incentive could boost affordable housing: ISA

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 27 SEP 2021
... raise house prices in Australian capital cities by between 8% and 16% - in all capital cities, it found, median property prices would rise by five figures.

AustralianSuper to shutter property option

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 3 SEP 2021
... media coverage that attributed the property option changes to AustralianSuper's view of an impending crash in property prices. Longo said falling housing prices wouldn't affect its holdings in commercial property. While AustralianSuper's ...

Chief economist update: Local and foreign love affair with Australian property

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUN 2021
... the total $55.9 billion spent on buying up Australian real estate adds to the flood of money that's sending property prices sky high. The US led foreign property buyers with A$13.1 billion worth, accounting for 23.4% of total investment in Australia's ...

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

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUN 2021
... of dwellings rise above $1 million."... and as per the ABS: "All capital cities recorded a rise in residential property prices in the March quarter 2021, led by Sydney (+6.1%) and Melbourne (+5.1%). Property prices also rose in Perth (+5.2%), Brisbane ...