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DomaCom launches affordable housing crowdfunding

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUL 2017
... DomaCom is partnering to launch a new crowdfunded investment vehicle, this time focusing on "resort-style" affordable housing for retirees. The partnership with Akuna Lifestyle Estates will see eight stages of development over three to four years to ...

Australian property love affair cannot please everyone

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUN 2017
... RBA and APRA. This is because the report shows that the small pick-up is largely due to the acceleration in credit to housing - up 6.6% in the year to May (from 6.5% in April) with the annual growth in investment housing credit quickening to 7.5% last ...

Australia a nation changing fast: Census

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 27 JUN 2017
... in 2011 to 31% in 2016, a change that will only exacerbate concerns about Australia's residential property market and housing affordability. This may explain, however, why apartments, flats and townhouses have increased as a share of all housing dwellings ...

The 2016 Census as a guide

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 JUN 2017
... years before and 42% since I arrived in this 'lucky country'. If only I had a crystal ball. Increasing population needs housing. Need I say more? As at December 2016, more than a quarter of Australia's population (26.3%) were born overseas, largely from ...

ING restructures, creates distribution head role

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUN 2017
... Carnell has been with ING since 2004 and led one of the first market economist teams to accurately forecast and time the US housing collapse that resulted in the GFC.

Cooling property market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JUN 2017
... price growth should continue to weaken going forward as APRA's tougher lending regulations (especially for investment housing) and mortgage rate increases and stricter lending rules imposed by banks since the start of the second quarter impact the domestic ...

Millennials choosing stock market over housing market

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 19 JUN 2017
As the prospect of owning their own home becomes less of a reality, millennials are turning to the stock market to invest and build their wealth. New insights from CommSec reveal more than half of all new customers are under the age of 35, with the ...

DomaCom chasing Federal Court exemption

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 5 JUN 2017
... still protecting the assets of the SMSF. The Federal Court action follows years of working to help solve the issue of housing affordability for young people. "The unique arm's length structure of the DomaCom Fund protects the SMSF assets whilst generating ...

Stamp duty axing treated with caution

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUN 2017
... incentivise their children to save, such as matching them dollar for dollar." More information on the NSW Government's housing affordability package can be found here.

Hassle-free housing investment

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUN 2017
... owning a property alive in the midst of the affordability crisis with the option of fractional ownership in residential housing. Actively seeking relationships with financial advisers, BRICKX chief executive Anthony Millet said the firm is more than ...