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Productivity Commission to crack down on homeowners' scheme loopholes

Millionaires would be banned from receiving a $7,000 taxpayer subsidy towards their first home under a call to means test the first homeowners' scheme, the Productivity Commission revealed today. In its discussion paper on first home ownership, released ...

Macquarie Bank cuts commitment to MEAP fund

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 18 DEC 2003
... businesses divest non-core assets and focus on core operations." MEAP's first investment was a 15 per cent stake in AltaLink, owner of North America's first independent electricity transmission network in Alberta, Canada. The pension fund joined some ...

Treasurer announces two appointments to Productivity Commission

The Treasurer, the Hon. Peter Costello, has announced that Robert Fitzgerald AM and Philip Weickhardt have been appointed to the Productivity Commission. Robert Fitzgerald has been appointed for a five-year term, beginning 27 January 2004. He brings ...

ING property trust transforms itself into 3rd largest on NZE

... The meeting at Auckland's Viaduct Harbour also approved buying a Newmarket building from developer Symphony Group, half-owner of the trust's management company. Some superannuation investors had threatened to kick up a stink at the meeting, but in the ...

First home buyers housing affordability falls to record low

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2003
Housing affordability for first home buyers fell to a record low for the second quarter running, dropping by 9.4 per cent in the September quarter, according to the Commonwealth Bank/HIA Housing Report. The report said Australian housing affordability ...

Westfield, Commonwealth Funds Management in property deals

AAP  |  MONDAY, 24 NOV 2003
Westfield Trust has agreed with Commonwealth Funds Management (CFM) to acquire CFM's 50 per cent interest in Westfield Belconnen, in Canberra, at $230 million. It also has agreed to acquire CFM's 50 per cent interest in Westfield Marion, in Adelaide ...

Housing bubble imbalance could threaten economic growth: TD Securities

The recent boom in house prices and household debt have created an imbalance in the economy that threatens to severely undermine economic growth when house prices fall and the household sector slows its consumption, according to TD Securities chief ...

Rising rates take steam out of real estate market

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2003
Rising interest rates have helped take some of the steam out of Australia's real estate market as price rises begin to show signs of plateauing and short-term speculators exit the market. Clearance rates at auctions in New South Wales over the past ...

Superannuation, a key nation-building goal: Coonan at ASFA Conference

... superannuation choice has been operating successfully for five years. She also said that a recent survey conducted by Business Owner Research of employers of between 20 and 500 workers found that nearly half the employers already offered choice. Senator ...

RBA takes aim at property tax breaks

AAP  |  MONDAY, 17 NOV 2003
Generous tax breaks for property investors were a key driver of the house price boom, according to the Reserve Bank of Australia. In its submission to the Productivity Commission's home ownership inquiry, the bank dismissed a shortage of houses or land ...