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Although economists expect a further 75-point fall in interest rates in coming months, most said the 3 December 100-point drop to a seven-year low of 4.25 per c…
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Victoria's property market has taken a turn for the worse, with almost half the homes auctioned on the weekend being passed in.With 420 of the 865 houses on off…
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An Australian academic predicting a collapse in house prices has made a bet with Macquarie Group economist Rory Robertson that commits the loser to walk from Ca…
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The decline in prices for beach house properties in Australia, due to harsh economic conditions forcing sales by owners of multiple properties, may present an o…
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The official cash interest rate, targeted by the central bank in its monetary policy actions, is forecast to fall to its lowest level since early 1960 by Easter…
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Australia's house prices will soften but should not crash because of the world economic crisis, Reserve Bank governor Glenn Stevens says.
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Generation Ys hankering to live close to the city in a suburb offering a trendy lifestyle are among those pushing up prices for smaller apartments at a time whe…
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Two of Australia's biggest residential developers have called the bottom of the housing market, saying some life should return to the troubled sector next year.…
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Investors who shied away from residential property investment may be poised to return as interest rates drop and the share market remains volatile.
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IT is at times like these, when shares are so attractive that every expert, including the galah at the local pet shop, is screaming that we're looking at the bu…
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Pressure on landlords has been eased by hefty interest rate cuts since September. The Reserve Bank of Australia's efforts to prop up a stumbling economy hav…
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The Reserve Bank of Australia has left the door open to further falls in official interest rates, after revising down its estimates for economic growth and warn…
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