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

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUN 2021
... they'll be forever living with my wife and I. Mama Mia! The problem is government initiatives to tame residential housing price growth are the same ones boosting housing price growth. Then again, putting an end to rising house prices - with all the ...

First State Super makes first take-private bid

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2020
... fund has made a bid to acquire OptiComm, a fibre optic cable company that competes with NBN Co, servicing new residential housing, apartment and commercial building markets. A First State Super spokesperson confirmed the bid, noting the super fund had ...

Qualitas launches build-to-rent fund

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2020
... to a low carbon economy and the 'green' overlay of the fund will help reduce emissions generated by residential housing." Clean Energy Finance Corporation chief executive Ian Learmonth said that QBIF was an attractive opportunity. "The Clean ...

SMSFs ceding ground to direct investors in the ETF market

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2018
... combination of the historically low interest rate environment in Australia and low levels of affordability for residential housing is causing millennial investors to think in new ways about investment and wealth creation. Low cost, small minimum investment ...

Hassle-free housing investment

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUN 2017
... owning a property alive in the midst of the affordability crisis with the option of fractional ownership in residential housing. Actively seeking relationships with financial advisers, BRICKX chief executive Anthony Millet said the firm is more than ...

Opposition floats SMSF borrowing ban

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 21 APR 2017
... director/chief executive Andrea Slattery. "That estimated $12 billion where SMSFs have used LRBAs to invest in residential housing has to be put in the context of a $6.43 trillion housing market. SMSFs investing in residential property, whether through ...

FIIG arranges $40m Sunland bond issue

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 12 NOV 2015
... with Sunland's existing banking arrangements, will assist in funding the group's current pipeline of land, residential housing and multi-storey developments and provide working capital for other opportunities Sunland may pursue in the future," Abedian ...

Australia underperforms as China slows down: Russell

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2015
... repeated. "If, as ASIC believes, signs of a dangerous property bubble in Sydney and Melbourne are accurate, residential housing prices could slump." He added: "Investors with a home-country bias would do well to revisit their portfolios, reduce their ...

FEATURE: Australia's other love affair

FINANCIAL STANDARD  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
... Residential property constitutes 3.5% of total SMSF investments and 0.39% of the total $4.7 trillion Australian residential housing market. Direct residential property has been by far the most discussed route to the asset class and commentators have ...

No bubble fears in commercial property for SMSFs

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2013
... investments to provide a high and reliable yield uncorrelated to equity markets would be wise to look beyond residential housing at ways to access the commercial property sector. "Commercial property is more attuned to fundamentals rather than market ...