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Housing affordability has barely improved despite the property market downturn, although a handful of affluent areas are the exceptions.
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Despite recent government initiatives, many people are struggling to save up for a deposit for their first property, new research has found.
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The rising cost of living is making it harder for potential home buyers to save a deposit and reducing how much some can borrow to spend on their next property.…
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"I was told interest rates would rise, but I thought my pay would rise with it."
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Sobering new research has revealed the average first homebuyer deposit has reached a record high of $119,560, leaving many Aussies struggling to come up with th…
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A fresh report has revealed the grim reality of how long it takes for Australian first home buyers to save for a deposit.
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Labor has detailed its key housing policy, offering to help 10,000 households a year into home ownership by dramatically cutting the price of a property.
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It’s a scheme designed to help more people buy houses but the potential downside could see many Aussies struggling to make ends meet.
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Queensland's property laws have come under fire as more developers use sunset clauses to cancel contracts and leave would-be first home buyers priced out of the…
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Fractional investing in an NDIS property provides a way to get a foot in the door and start investing in property.
Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has stepped in and scrapped the state’s controversial land tax proposal, which would have slugged investors nationally for owning properties interstate.
With so many forces at play to stifle the property market it's easy to assume it's all bad news (or good news for those wanting prices to fall), but there are some telling signs that the real estate market woes will be relatively short-lived.
Low rental vacancy rates are producing robust rental yields and investors are returning, in the wake of costly floods, to some sections of the northern New South Wales coastal and river regions.
States with almost no rental stock, asking prices going through the roof, governments floundering, and no relief in sight - the rental crisis in Australia has taken a turn for the worse and is seemingly set to create more homelessness and pain.
A measure of relief is set to take effect for first-home buyers in regional areas, with a new Federal Government scheme offering thousands of new places within days.
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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.
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