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Hundreds of auctions got underway across the country on Saturday, with prospective first home buyers buoyed by the biggest tax reform in decades.
FIRST HOME BUYERS
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The simple fact is that Australia does not have enough homes for its growing population, which is driving unaffordability.
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Labor is betting the house on young Australians' desperation to buy their own.
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There’s a great scene in the new Australian film Birthright where Corey, a 30-something man with a pregnant wife, no home or job, asks his father for a home loa…
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Thousands of first-home buyers using government 5 per cent deposit schemes face a potential mortgage crisis.
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There’s a mountain of evidence to show that it’s so much harder for working-age Australians to buy a house today than it was 50 years ago.
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Average house prices now cost nine times average incomes, versus five times 20 years ago, and young Australians are now looking for alternative ways to build we…
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First-home buyers are being locked out of the property market as Australia’s housing shortage deepens.
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The federal government is weighing changes to negative gearing and the capital gains tax discount - and the debate is already causing division.
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Billions are pouring into a radical new housing system designed to keep you paying rent for the rest of your life.
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The share of lending to property investors is higher than it was five years ago, while the share of first home buyer lending has fallen.
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The time it takes to save a deposit to buy a home has blown out, according to a new report.
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