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Fitch says housing downturn unlikely to hurt banks

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUL 2004
... Fitch Ratings has found Australian banks have sufficient safeguards in place to ensure that a downturn in the residential property market would not translate into material loan losses. The agency said some downward pressure on earnings can be expected ...

Reverse Mortgages on the comeback: Datamonitor

... result of the retirement savings gap, an aging population and the considerable amount of wealth tied up in residential property. Datamonitor financial services analyst and author of the report, Alex Boorman, said despite the poor performance of reverse ...

Aust May consumer sentiment rises modestly in wake of Budget

... the Budget. He said the 5% rise in petrol prices over the last month, continuing reports of weakness in the residential property market, the decline in the currency and the local share market and reports of rising interest rates in the US could have ...

Differentiation the key to investment property: Westpac

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAR 2004
... investment property, Westpac Banking Corp's head of property Frank Allen said yesterday. Mr Allen said the residential property market was already showing signs of softening but was unlikely to experience a sharp fall, as some commentators had predicted. ...

Robert Orehek receives eight-year managing ban

... director; referred to in the Court proceedings as the Orehek group of companies - in a fundraising scheme for residential property development. ASIC's investigation found that the scheme raised approximately $10 to $15 million from investors in the Sydney ...

RBA takes aim at property tax breaks

AAP  |  MONDAY, 17 NOV 2003
... house prices at present is... an unusually strong desire by existing property owners for further exposure to residential property, either in their own home or in an investment property," the bank said. Investors were driven by a belief that house prices ...

ICA Property Group launches third property fund

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2003
... Bank has announced the establishment of a third fund to raise a further $50 million for investment in non-residential property developments. It said the move follows the strong performance of its first two property development funds, which have raised ...

Kiwi industry profits up 42 per cent

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2003
... supply ($2.1 billion, up 20 percent); and construction ($1.9 billion, up 19 percent). Industries excluded were residential property operators, religious organisations and private households employing staff. During the period, the economy as measured ...

Bendigo Bank shares soar to record highs

... 2002/03 with total lending approvals rising 33% to $4.82 billion. Lending approvals secured by mortgage over residential property were $3.4 billion, representing 70% of total approvals.

Australians investing more directly in shares: ABS data

... end of March, up three per cent from the end of December. However, recent ABS data suggests the value of residential property assets also continued to increase during the March quarter, possibly placing a floor under household net wealth.