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Budget to boost home ownership rates

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 10 MAY 2021
Ahead of tomorrow's federal budget, the government announced a raft of measures aimed at increasing home ownership levels, including the expansion of the First Home Super Saver Scheme. The government is increasing the maximum amount of voluntary contributions ...

Housing market reaches new heights

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAY 2021
... increase in value following capital gains in real estate markets across the country. In the three months to April, national home values rose 6.8%, marking the highest quarterly dwelling growth rate since December 1988. "The Australian dwelling market ...

MAX finalists named, voting open

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAY 2021
... Waterworth who was named distribution executive of the year and Legg Mason head of marketing Felicity Nicholson who took home the Executive of the Year - Marketing award. Voting in the 2021 awards is open now and runs through to the end of the month ...

ANZ profits up 45%, dividends double

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAY 2021
... release is a result of the improving economic outlook over the course of the half, as well as some loan volume reductions. Home loan and small business consumers have also behaved prudently by building savings buffers through the half," ANZ said in May ...

FirstChoice dominates platform market

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 29 APR 2021
... platform popular in one state may be ranked very differently in another. For example, Netwealth was Top 10 in only one state-its home state of Victoria," the report read. Overall, FirstChoice has 9738 financial advisers using its functionalities, followed ...

Wingate adds head of real estate research

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 27 APR 2021
The Melbourne boutique has added a head of real estate research and market intelligence. Andrew Perkins has 25 years' experience, and most recently worked in similar roles at Oliver Hume and Metricon Homes. Wingate Property managing director Mark Harrison ...

Mercer launches aged care support service

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 26 APR 2021
... care. Care & Living with Mercer aims to be a one-stop shop, providing information on aged care and living options across home care, retirement living and residential aged care. The initiative, which is backed by several of Mercer's partners such as Commonwealth ...

Granny flat tax exemption to become law

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 19 APR 2021
... legally enforceable agreement and that failure to establish such an agreement leaves the elderly person without rights to their home. Stakeholders and interested parties can submit responses to the consultation until 29 April 2021.

Women participation rate booms

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 16 APR 2021
... attorney-general and industrial relations minister. Minister for industry, science and technology Karen Andrews is the new home affairs minister. Assistant minister to the attorney general Amanda Stoker took on the additional roles of assistant ministers ...

Atlas Wealth launches mortgage brokerage

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 APR 2021
... mortgage or refinance their old ones due to the low interest rate environment. Many expats have packed up and been forced home during the pandemic last year which also added to the demand for this kind of service." Since August 2020, the advice firm ...