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Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 AUG 2016
... Australia nears the bubble zone UBS, in its latest housing bubble report albeit it's a few months old now, says Australian housing is overvalued but not yet in bubble territory albeit Australia is only one rank away from entering the redzone. The UBS ...

Australian Unity fund acquires property in Port Adelaide

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUL 2016
... with a weighted average lease expiry of 2.5 years to tenants including Flinders Ports, China Shipping, South Australian Housing Trust and Community Bridging Services. Portfolio manager Alex Fisher said with Government bond yields currently at 2% and ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2016
... point rate reduction - passed in full by CBA, NAB, WBC and partially by the ANZ (19 bps) - should keep the Australian housing market humming. China services PMI The Caixin China Services PMI declined to a reading of 51.8 in April from 52.2 in the previous ...

Housing market set to flat line not crash: QIC

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2016
The Australian housing market is heading towards a price plateau, not a sharp crash according to Queensland Investment Corporation (QIC). This view helps to dampen new research from Finder which found that 89.3% of Australian housing debt was at an ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 27 OCT 2014
... (RBA) head of financial stability, Luci Ellis is slated to take part in a roundtable panel discussion at the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute at Sydney University. In equities news, Bendigo and Adelaide Bank and Spotless have their annual ...

Aluminum windows and ferries: the case for small-cap investing

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2014
... own the Kangaroo Island ferries. "We see some near-term growth emerging for companies with exposure to the Australian housing construction sector, our ageing population (retirement and aged care) and various organisations that would benefit from a falling ...

Brumbie: Super idea, super silly reaction

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2014
... few weeks after the Reserve Bank of Australia issued a discussion paper that presented research that argued Australian housing is overvalued and given expectations of only moderate capital appreciation in housing over the next few years that people may ...

La Trobe launches SMSF loan product

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 11 NOV 2013
... arrangements were outside of the rules. Most recently, there have been concerns that a bubble could be forming in the Australian housing market, particularly in sought after areas in Sydney and Melbourne. Opponents of limited recourse borrowing arrangements ...

Market Wrap - PM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 NOV 2012
... per cent to 3,478.66 points. In local economic news on Wednesday, the Australian Industry Group (Ai Group)/Australian Housing Association (HIA) performance of construction index (PCI) showed activity rising to an index of 35.8 in October, up from 30.9 ...

Experts bullish on US despite debt gloom

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2011
... executive director of JANA Investment Advisers, agreed on a positive outlook for US stocks but referred to the Australian housing market as a bubble. Economists such as Harvard professor Martin Feldstein have predicted nothing but gloom ahead for the ...