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The average person’s maximum borrowing capacity has dropped by approximately 20%, or $134,500, as a result of the last five interest rate rises, according to Ra…
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Home buyers’ budgets have been slashed by hundreds of thousands of dollars, new figures show, as rising interest rates squeeze the amount the average Australian…
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First-home buyers are disappearing from the market as property price falls prove insufficient to offset the rising cost of servicing loans, according to new dat…
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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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Home buyers could face higher mortgage repayments as early as rising inflation could force the Reserve Bank to lift official rates above 2 per cent within a yea…
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Australians are turning to increasingly risky and expensive mortgages as rising property prices outstrip wages growth, recent data shows.
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Financial regulators have confirmed they are moving to clamp down on housing market risks .
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Experts have revealed first-home buyers now need an average deposit of more than $110,000, while monthly repayments have also skyrocketed.
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Aussies have used the pandemic-induced lull in their lives to hunt around for a better bank deal, pushing the value of refinanced mortgages to record heights.
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The latest figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics reveal mortgage refinancing skyrocketed to an all-time high in June, 2021.
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Research endorsing past limits on investor and interest-only loans will give regulators new evidence to consider.
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An NAB survey showed only 40 per cent of respondents believed now was the time to purchase real estate.
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