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Brisbane's tight rental market is tipped to ease as short-term leases expire six months after the January floods.
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Interest rates are going up. No, wait! Interest rates are going down. Er, interest rates are staying on hold. Confused?
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Australia, among the world's worst per capita polluters due to its reliance on coal-fired power and resources exports, plans to charge big business a fixed pric…
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Australia's unemployment rate stayed at 4.9 per cent for the second month in a row in June, official figures show.
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Interest rate hikes should be off the agenda for the rest of the year and replaced by consideration of interest rate falls, say one leading RBA commentator.
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A review of Gold Coast property sales has found beach-side prices dropped substantially in the 12 months to May.
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The recent rate freeze will not do enough to improve the affordability of property in Australia, the Real Estate Institute of Australia has claimed.
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A total of 488,500 people paid short-term visits to Australia in May, figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics have shown.
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In one corner we have journalists at The Economist newspaper, who in a recent survey make the extraordinary claim that Australian house prices are overvalued by…
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While some economists are sticking to forecasts of a 25-basis point rise as early as next month, others are confident that rates may remain in a holding pattern…
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The Reserve Bank of Australia left its benchmark interest rate unchanged and said the nation’s growth pace may be weaker than previously forecast, triggering th…
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Fewer new Australian properties were approved in May than there were in April, a new report has revealed.
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