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Chief economist update: Local and foreign love affair with Australian property

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUN 2021
... commercial property (11.1%) followed by Victoria (3.98%) and Queensland (2.9%). The FIRB approved a total of 7056 residential property applications in 2019-20 - 6.3% less compared with the previous financial year - but the total amount has increased ...

Calls for Royal Commission into housing

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUN 2021
... decade ago and almost three times the value of the superannuation system. In a paper, they argued that the hot residential property market is at the expense of broader economic stability. UNSW researchers Hal Pawson, Bill Randolph and Fatemeh Aminpour ...

Chief economist update: How do you solve a problem like Australia's housing?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUN 2021
... -millions? -- in fact) and a day late but the Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) recently released Residential Property Price Indexes: Eight Capital Cities told us what we already know. Weighted average of the eight capital cities in the Residential ...

Putting the local property boom in perspective

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUN 2021
Knight Frank's latest global house prices index has provided a bit of perspective on the red hot residential property markets of Australia's capital cities. There was a 7.3% average change in prices across 56 countries and territories, with Turkey experiencing ...

UK lender targets SMSFs in Australia

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2021
... Australia under chief executive David Ingram. It matches investors with developers of small to medium-sized residential property projects via its platform. In Australia, CrowdProperty will be targeting SMSFs alongside wholesale investors and institutional ...

Housing market reaches new heights

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAY 2021
... housing broke the $8 trillion dollar mark," CoreLogic head of research Eliza Owen said. "This puts Australian residential property at around four times the size of Australian GDP, and around $1 trillion more than the combined value of the ASX, superannuation ...

Raiz acquires superannuation platform

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 APR 2021
... million Choice superannuation fund. Raiz is set to buy Superestate, whose business includes superannuation, a residential property fund, and a property data platform. Under the deal, its founder Grant Brits and Superestate's staff will join Raiz. Raiz ...

Former AMP adviser in enforceable undertaking

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 15 MAR 2021
... their circumstances into account. It seems most of these clients were advised by Thorne to invest in direct residential property through their SMSFs - and Park Trent Properties allegedly benefited from that. Thorne's SMSF advice business was called Saber ...

Fund manager hires distribution lead

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 25 JAN 2021
... business. Lulu Yan will oversee the unlisted funds the firm manages. Yan came from Darland, a developer of residential property in Victoria, where she was most recently an investment director for two years. She was at Dacland for six years and prior ...

ASIC takes fintech to court

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JAN 2021
... initiated action against a fintech for allegedly misleading customers about the benefits of investing in residential property in self-managed superannuation funds. Squirrel Superannuation Services, an SMSF platform provider, faced the Federal Court on ...