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Don't fear credit crunch: Deloitte

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 11 FEB 2019
... this, she added, is that business lending is actually starting to tick up and is now growing ever so slightly ahead of housing lending. "To have better balance in banking portfolios is actually a good sign for the economy; they're not putting all their ...

Royal Commission to suppress bank stocks

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2019
... deleveraging accelerates and does not spread out over a long period of time, he said. Inevitably, this will also flow into the housing market. A sharp deceleration in credit growth would also affect property prices - which has the effect of a "negative ...

Labour and housing drive rate sentiment

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2019
... the RBA's next move will be a hike, coming later in the year. "While the labour market continues to be strong, the housing market remains weak. Recent oil price recovery and upcoming elections in May are seen as a positive, the latter resulting in ...

Chief economist update: Don't buy now, Australian property will be cheaper

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2019
... Economics' expectation that the downturn in the Australian property market would intensify and that: "The experience from housing downturns in other advanced economies is that central banks nearly always end up cutting policy rates... Capital expects ...

Chief economist update: Australian property market slump

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2019
... who have their fingers in the Australian property pie should be scared, us, Australians all, should be. "Australia's housing price drop expected to be the worst in the world" - news.com.au "Australia to see world's worst 2019 house price fall ...

Chief economist update: Safe as burning houses

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 JAN 2019
... in its November 2018 'Monetary Policy Statement', the RBA remained relatively sanguine about it. "The easing of housing prices in Sydney and Melbourne reflects a range of factors. On the demand side, sentiment towards the housing market has become ...

Sydney residential property slumps

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 7 JAN 2019
... Melbourne residential properties came close with a 7% loss in value and -3.8% loss in total returns. The best performing housing markets in 2018 were Hobart, where values rose 8.7% and total returns were 14.3%; and Canberra where dwellings picked up ...

Where UniSuper sees market opportunities

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 31 DEC 2018
... within these asset classes, such as the recent $250 million Aussie small cap mandate to Lennox Capital. Pearce says the in-housing of investments hasn't been a grand plan, but has been shaped by the investment talent that comes on the market. "We ...

Investors to move on property before election: BlackRock

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 DEC 2018
The world's largest asset manager can't see the bottom of Australia's housing downturn and it expects investors to be ahead of the game. Giving its global investment outlook for the year ahead, BlackRock said softening house prices might lead investors ...

Bonds reward equity investors seeking refuge

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 17 DEC 2018
... to build up. The effect often slows down spending, particularly in interest-rate sensitive areas of the market such as housing. "And an inverted curve can also reflect the market view that short-end rates will have to be cut in the future due to weakening ...