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Sydney’s long property boom has left one in eight low and middle-income earners across the city in housing stress, the highest proportion in Australia.
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Private sector credit data released by the RBA this morning showed housing investors continued their retreat from the Australian market in June.
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Despite falling prices and slowing auction clearance rates, property developers had a busy June with a surge in both apartment and house building permits.
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Recent interest rate hikes from many of Australia's second-tier banks could "make it easier" for the major lenders to jack up rates for borrowers, despite the r…
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In percentage growth terms, Perth came in third among the capitals nationally over the past 25 years, though median housing in the west was still far more affor…
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The problem with relying on rising property prices as a “price” signal of a supply shortage is that the dwelling an owner-occupier buys is both a consumption an…
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Real estate sales in the Northern Territory have dropped about $1.2 billion in the three years since the height of the gas boom, an industry body says.
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While home prices in many of Australia’s capital cities are now falling, the cost of vacant residential land is not.
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Tumbling house prices in Sydney and Melbourne are the main drivers behind the first annual drop in national property prices in six years, a new report shows.
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PwC’s Pulse of Perth project identified Winthrop as the “happiest place to live” in terms of mortgage stress.
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The pool of funds Australia's big four banks are increasingly accessing to source home loans has become more expensive.
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Despite being notorious for its high crime rate, things are looking up for this Sydney area, where a property has smashed the record price by almost $100,000.
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