INFLATION
With the economic recovery continuing to unfold, firms are looking to ramp up their investment, and with it, they are looking for more staff.
Australia's interest rates will remain at the historic-low level of 0.1 per cent.
Private sector credit (effectively outstanding loans) rose by 0.4 per cent in March – the biggest increase in 13 months.
Prices rose modestly in the first three months of the year, most significantly at the fuel pump, but a temporary ‘blip’ is now expected.
The success of the COVID-19 vaccine worldwide gives us cause for optimism, and it also means a new threat: inflation.
Amid this financial market frenzy, it’s only fair for punters to wonder if mortgage rate rises may be on the cards.
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has, in a move universally expected, kept the official cash rate unchanged.
Currencies expected to benefit from a pick-up in global trade, like those linked to commodities, have risen against the US dollar.
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The gap between house prices and apartment values has widened to a chasm, with detached dwellings appreciating more than twice as fast as multi-residential over the course of the pandemic.
Additional support measures for landlords and tenants impacted by the most recent lockdowns in New South Wales and Victoria have been unveiled, jointly funded by state and federal governments.
As far as pathways to an international property portfolio go, the route travelled by author, buyer’s agent and investor Pete Wargent is anything but typical.
Billion dollar development group ID_Land is looking to cash in on Australia’s regional property boom with $100 million worth of site acquisitions in country Victoria, while at the same time launching a new funds management division.
One of Australia’s most prolific apartment developers says investors are likely to turn their attention from detached housing to multi-residential dwellings in coming months, as the nation’s unprecedented simultaneous property upswing continues to broaden.
Private investors are driving a resurgence in industrial assets in Western Australia, enticed by strong income-producing opportunities in warehouses and logistics properties, service stations, medical clinics and childcare centres.
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