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After a series of 2025 rate cuts and a property price surge, the Reserve Bank has abruptly reversed course, lifting rates less than six months after its last cu…
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Recent expectations of an end-of-year rate cut were extinguished by the RBA on Tuesday but borrowers may want to brace for an uptick in repayments in 2026.
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The big four bank has ditched its forecast for rate cuts in early 2026, warning mortgage holders face an extended period of high interest rates.
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The Reserve Bank of Australia is perhaps done lowering interest rates.
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The RBA has outlined three scenarios that capture how Australia's economy might evolve.
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Treasurer Jim Chalmers has attacked the coalition's economic record after the opposition raised the spectre of stagflation following a horror consumer price res…
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Borrowers have every reason to feel frightened this Halloween, with the latest ghoulish inflation figure likely to scare the RBA away from a rate cut next week.…
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With interest rates again tipped to fall next month and investor lending at its highest since 2017, property buyers are surging back into the market.
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The rate of unemployment in Australia is on the rise again
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Michele Bullock doesn’t think our current cash rate is ‘very restrictive’. Do the figures back her up?
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Borrowers hoping for an interest rate reprieve will have to wait a while longer, perhaps even until 2026.
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There’s understandably positivity about the impact of falling interest rates on housing affordability but there are two major problems with our market.
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Australian property prices look to be on a rocketing path, with first home buyers, low-interest rates and FOMO (fear of missing out) fueling the demand for the start of 2021.
However, with stimulus packages coming to an end, and international borders remaining closed, can this ex…
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