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Business unusual: COVID-19 threats facing real estate

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2020
... Price Expectations fell to 6.6% in March, the largest monthly decline since February 2019, Peleg said. Peleg believes housing prices will continue to fall as population growth and employment decelerate. "While it is a bit early to say what the price ...

Calls for super release to borrow from RBA

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2020
... particularly equity in their homes," he said. "But at the current time, with uncertainty about what the crisis will do to housing prices, increasing indebtedness in this way with an interest cost doesn't seem to be as good an option as borrowing ...

Investment specialist joins sustainable fund manager

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2020
... assets, including a growing portfolio of specialist disability accommodation assets, which is providing new, purpose built housing for many Australians with disability." O'Dea said she was looking forward to working with the firm's current and future ...

JP Morgan commits $86m to COVID-19 crisis

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2020
... uncertain work opportunities, the shifting business landscape and increased pressure to access or maintain affordable housing," it said. "Existing non-profit partners may need additional flexibility and support to meet the evolving needs of their clients ...

Jamie Dimon recovering after emergency heart surgery

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2020
... chemotherapy. Dimon has led JPMorgan since the end of 2005, after the bank's merger in 2004 with Bank One. Following the US housing bubble, JPMorgan emerged as the biggest bank in the US, and would later become the world's most valuable bank by market ...

A man is not a plan: Rice Warner

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2020
... said the government should raise the rental assistance, review the settings for means testing, and provide more public housing solutions. It also suggested changing super tax concessions, removing the $450 threshold for SG payments, consider providing ...

Qualitas launches build-to-rent fund

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2020
... criteria into its investment criteria, as well as being Australia's first dedicated build-to-rent debt platform. The housing will have to meet strong sustainability measures and be required to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 35% compared with ...

China vaccinates against corona

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2020
... work-injury insurance until June." "Before the end of June, firms can apply for delaying their payments to the state-run housing provident fund and unpaid repay loans to the provident fund due to the virus's impact will not be treated as overdue ...

Chief economist update: Lowe puts Australia on high

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 FEB 2020
... Lower interest rates could also encourage more borrowing by households eager to buy residential property at a time when housing debt is already quite high and there is already a strong upswing in housing prices in place. If so, this could increase the ...

Lowe snaps back at critics

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 6 FEB 2020
... Australians were already adjusting their spending to the reality of a combination of subdued wages growth, the fall in housing prices and high debt levels," Lowe said. "Consumer confidence and monetary policy were both responding to this reality. My ...