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The Reserve Bank of Australia is torn between cutting interest rates again to push the local currency down and further stimulate investment and holding them to …
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The weight of private investor money pouring into petrol stations, fast food outlets, childcare centres, supermarkets, offices and warehouses is also making its…
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While Sydney and Melbourne will continue to record strong growth in housing prices over the next 12 months most other markets in Australia will register little…
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The WA Government's policy of encouraging people to build new homes was flawed and would contribute to urban sprawl, according to Real Estate Institute of WA pr…
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The Federal Budget could provide further stimulus to the record building boom currently underway.
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Commercial and residential property investors will be slugged with an extra $826 million over the next four years after State Treasurer Mike Nahan made land tax…
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A growing number of people are investing in property for long-term capital growth and rental income in their retirement years.
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The 2015-16 federal budget is focused on small businesses and families but what is in store for the property industry?
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During a television blitz , Mr Abbott denied his big spending budget was a primer for an early election, insisting the next poll would be held around the "middl…
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Obviously this budget is designed to be more popular than the last one, but there is still a question of whether it will be more successful.
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Low quality teachers and expat Aussies with university debts have been targeted in an education budget with few big announcements.
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Melbourne recorded a clearance rate of 79.7 per cent on Saturday, following the previous weekend's non-holiday result of 82.1 per cent, which was a high for the…
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