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Expats sweat as main residence CGT cut-off looms

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2020
... situation has just made it worse." The bill, directed at foreigners (including foreign investors and expats) aimed to make housing more affordable by reducing foreign investment; however, it did little to recognise Australian home owners who had followed ...

House prices expected to tumble

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2020
... Melbourne as much as 7% higher. Bloxham said stalled migration and rising unemployment were likely to drive an oversupply in housing. "Forecasting housing prices is difficult at the best of times, but at the moment it is particularly challenging," HSBC ...

Sentiment weakens as macro threats loom

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2020
... economic weakness," Cacho said. The current deferrals on 700,000 loans, worth $220 billion, have likely been insulating the housing market from higher levels of unemployment and lower incomes, he said. "It remains to be seen what will happen when these ...

Proceed with caution: Janus Henderson

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2020
... corporate earnings revisions and options prices - continued to signal caution," Alankar said. "Alas, as the magnitude of the housing crisis became apparent, the equities rally proved ephemeral and the market plunged to new lows the following March." ...

Road to recovery

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2020
... the next decade." "Proactively respond rather than react." Belinda Allen, senior economist at Commonwealth Bank, said housing and business investment in likely to remain weak for a while longer. "Generally business investment falls quite a bit during ...

Cbus ready to deploy cash

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2020
... it has already engaged with including property and infrastructure. "We have been doing some work with NHFIC (National Housing Finance and Investment Corporation), we participated in their bond aggregator issuances where we effectively provided cheaper ...

VIC, TAS lead Australia: CommSec

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2020
... ACT overtook NSW into third position with its highest ranking in over a year, leading the way on relative unemployment, housing finance and equipment investment. NSW slipped to fourth place, with South Australia and Queensland sitting in fifth and sixth ...

A decade in the dust

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
... big difference is that the length of contraction will be much shorter with less hangover from systemic risks such as the housing market in 2008. "This event will force investors to reset and reassess how they look at allocating to equities. Two areas ...

Global markets bleed red

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
... Federal Reserve's Empire State Index plummeted 57 points to -78.2 in April, its lowest level on record, and the NAHB housing index, which rates builder confidence, tumbled to its lowest level since June 2012. Shaw and Partners senior investment adviser ...

Taxman simplifies work from home deductions

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2020
... working from home for the first time due to COVID-19 when it comes to accurately completing their tax return," Minister for housing and assistant treasurer Michael Sukkar said in a statement. "The ATO has undertaken to review these arrangements in line ...