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Hobart has pipped Sydney to claim the unenviable title of Australia's most unaffordable capital for tenants with the gap widening between incomes and the amount…
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Sydney is approaching a tipping point that would see people abandon public transport and choose to drive to work as the city struggles to cope with population g…
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Auction clearance rates have hit the lowest level in years, especially in Sydney and Melbourne, and home loan lending is also slowing, largely reflecting tighte…
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Massive growth in Australia's ballooning temporary migration is dwarfing the Government's cuts to the permanent intake.
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Homes in the future will be so in tune with owners they will be able to tell their mood, TV preferences and even if they’re hungry — due to smart tech engaging …
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Based off historic relationships, when house prices bottom, recessions tend to decline. However, when prices peak, the number of nations falling into recession …
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The National Australia Bank no longer sees the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) lifting official interest rates this year, continuing the pattern seen among majo…
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Cashed-up expatriates are making the most of the falling Australian dollar and weakening property prices to snap up trophy properties in prestige postcodes cost…
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Great uncertainty as to what exactly is leading to low wage growth in Australia is causing reconsiderations on any RBA rate hike.
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Australia's jobless rate has edged up to 5.6 per cent despite another 22,600 jobs being added in April.
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The near-doubling of a new tax on foreign residential property investors in Western Australia has been slammed by development and property experts who claim it …
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Workers only got a 0.5 per cent pay rise in the three months to March, only just above the softest result in the history of the series in the three months to Se…
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