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Government pledges $2bn to fast-track social housing

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 19 JUN 2023
The government has unveiled a $2 billion Social Housing Accelerator investment to expedite the construction of new social housing across Australia. The Social Housing Accelerator funds will be dispensed to State and Territory governments within the ...

Government progresses social housing measures

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 10 FEB 2023
The Albanese government's package of social and affordable housing legislation was introduced in parliament overnight. Under the Housing Australia Future Fund Bill 2023, some $10 billion will be used to deliver 30,000 social and affordable homes. ...

Foreign investment fees to double

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUL 2022
Foreign investors will pay an additional $455 million in Foreign Investment Review Board fees over the next four years under new regulations. Seeing through an election promise, Treasurer Jim Chalmers is doubling fees for offshore investors from July ...

Local fundie to manage US funds

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 SEP 2020
... the sector." Auctus and Student Quarters are also aiming to raise an initial amount US$50 million to acquire other US housing assets. Auctus is led by Campbell McComb as its managing director. He has previously worked as Newgate Capital Partners' head ...

Land tax, not stamp duty: Report

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2020
A draft report into reforming GST and reducing inefficient taxes has reignited calls for the scrapping of stamp duty when buying or selling a home, to be replaced by a broad-based land tax. The NSW Review of Federal Financial Relations draft report ...

Jamie Dimon recovering after emergency heart surgery

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2020
... chemotherapy. Dimon has led JPMorgan since the end of 2005, after the bank's merger in 2004 with Bank One. Following the US housing bubble, JPMorgan emerged as the biggest bank in the US, and would later become the world's most valuable bank by market ...

Chief economist update: The Fed pause that refreshes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2019
... by Trading Economics counts the number of improving stats in America: US New Home Sales Jump to Near 1-1/2-Year High US Housing Starts Fall to Near 2-Year Low in March US Manufacturing Growth Holds Steady at Near 2-Year Low US Retail Sales Post Biggest ...

Chief economist update: Tariff man takes Wall Street down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2018
... today. The list also includes geopolitical concerns, Brexit, technical breaches, sell-off in momentum names, softening US housing markets, forced selling, JPMorgan chief executive Jamie Dimon's comments that he saw a flat fourth-quarter trading environment. ...

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.

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2016
... 9.0% drop in housing starts in September, data on existing home sales leaves no doubt about the solid state of the US housing market. Existing home sales jumped by 3.2% to an annualised rate of 5.47 million in September of 2016 - the highest level since ...
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