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Super for housing to exacerbate affordability crisis: Eslake

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 19 SEP 2024
Superannuation being used for house deposits would push up home prices, undermining Australians' home ownership prospects, slash retirement savings, and come at a significant cost to the Budget, according to a Corinna Economic Advisory report by ...

Australian inflation downturn on the horizon: AMP

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 13 JUL 2023
... person there was around 0.8 jobs available, she added. Housing is also continuing to surprise to the upside, national home prices are up by nearly 4% since the market bottom in February. "This has led to some concern that there's more pent-up savings ...

Australia likely to avoid recession: Oliver

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 19 JAN 2023
... to watch will be: inflation, central banks and interest rates, US politics, geopolitical tensions, and Australian home prices.

Australian housing slump marches on

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 1 NOV 2022
... property prices was the fastest paced downturn on CoreLogic records going back to 1980. "The rapidity of the decline in home prices this time around likely reflects the de facto tightening that started with rising fixed mortgage rates a year ago, the ...

OPINION: Super for housing was the wrong policy fight

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2021
... rates at 6000-year lows and - based on comments from the Reserve Bank of Australia - likely to stay that way, and home prices exploding through the stratosphere so rapidly, the FHSS scheme has no point. And this helps explain why it's difficult to find ...

Tasmania leads the nation: CommSec

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2020
... spending in Tasmania was up 14.8% above decade-average levels in the March quarter, with strong population growth, higher home prices and home building boosting spending. Victoria recorded retail spending 14.4% higher than the average, while Queensland ...

Confident with a capital C

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAR 2017
... March from 103.9 in the previous month. Strengthening economic activity, rising wealth effect from rising stock and home prices- the S&P 500 has risen by 5.4% this year to date and by 18.3% from a year earlier; the S&P/Case-Shiller House price index ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2016
... April, up from 4.9% in the previous month and marks the seventh straight month of positive year-on-year growth in home prices. New home prices in Shanghai increased by 28.0% year-on-year last month while those in Beijing rose by 18.3%. Eurozone inflation ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2016
... and buyers of second homes ahead of April's increase in the stamp duty were reportedly behind last month's surge in home prices. Home buying and therefore, price gains, are expected to ease this month as the 3.0% surcharge comes into effect. However ...

Sydney house prices up 5-times national average

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2015
... Reinforcing concerns over rising Sydney property prices, the ABS latest house price index reveals the harbour city's home prices to be rising more than 5-times faster than other capitals. In the 12 months to March 2015 the ABS reported Sydney prices ...
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