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Nick Bendel

Property & Personal Finance Writer

Booms, slumps and everything in between for real estate prices

Australia’s capital city property markets have experienced more downs than ups over the past three months, with only Hobart and Adelaide reporting growth.

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01 Mar, 2018

2 min read

Booms, slumps and everything in between for real estate prices

Alex Ritchie

Personal Finance Editor

Finding real estate agents now easier for home loan customers

Commonwealth Bank (CBA) have partnered with real estate agent comparison website, LocalAgentFinder, to help their customers find and connect with real estate agents suited for their needs.

Home Loans

27 Feb, 2018

2 min read

Finding real estate agents now easier for home loan customers

Mark Bristow

Personal Finance Editor

Home buyers overlooking property problems

Nearly one in four Australian home buyers has experienced buyer’s remorse after purchasing their property, with a significant percentage overlooking potentially expensive issues when inspecting their property, according to new research from ME Bank.

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26 Feb, 2018

3 min read

Home buyers overlooking property problems

Alex Ritchie

Personal Finance Editor

Perth's rental market finally stabilising

Perth’s rental market appears to have stabilised after three years of “challenging conditions”, according to data from REIWA.com.au.

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23 Feb, 2018

4 min read

Perth's rental market finally stabilising

Mark Bristow

Personal Finance Editor

Is your home loan in one of Australia's top performing suburbs?

If you have a mortgage in Cockatoo, Victoria, your investment may be performing well, according to CoreLogic. The town in the Dandenong Ranges has topped the new CoreLogic Top Performing Suburbs Report, based on its consistent capital growth, and leads a strong contingent of Victorian towns and suburbs.

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22 Feb, 2018

3 min read

Is your home loan in one of Australia's top performing suburbs?

Nick Bendel

Property & Personal Finance Writer

Small lenders offering ultra-low home loan rates

Mortgage interest rates are currently priced as low as 3.49 per cent, according to a new analysis of the home loan market.

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21 Feb, 2018

2 min read

Small lenders offering ultra-low home loan rates

Mark Bristow

Personal Finance Editor

First home buyers taking the place of property investors

The investors abandoning the Australian housing market are being replaced by first home buyers, according to the Housing Industry Association (HIA).

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21 Feb, 2018

2 min read

First home buyers taking the place of property investors

Mark Bristow

Personal Finance Editor

Could interest rate rises put Australia's economy in mortgage stress?

The risk that household debt and mortgage stress represents to Australia’s wider financial stability may be smaller than expected, according to the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), though a percentage of owner occupiers and investors could be impacted by changes to economic conditions, with the risk to investors expected to increase over the coming years.

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20 Feb, 2018

5 min read

Could interest rate rises put Australia's economy in mortgage stress?

Alex Ritchie

Personal Finance Editor

Ten years of value growth; how Australia's property market has transformed

There has been a lot of talk about Australia’s “hot property market”, however there has actually been little value growth over the past decade outside of Sydney and Melbourne, with negative growth in some regions, according to research by CoreLogic.

Home Loans

19 Feb, 2018

4 min read

Ten years of value growth; how Australia's property market has transformed

Nick Bendel

Property & Personal Finance Writer

ING mortgages just got cheaper _and dearer

ING Australia has today made a series of changes to its home loan interest rates, with some falling by up to 17 basis points and others rising by up to 41 points.

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16 Feb, 2018

3 min read

ING mortgages just got cheaper _and dearer

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Mark Bristow

Personal Finance Editor

Will South Australia stay strong through 2018?

South Australia’s property market experienced a strong finish to 2017, according to new figures from the Real Estate Institute of South Australia (REISA), though housing affordability remains an important issue.

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13 Feb, 2018

2 min read