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After languishing for more than a year, Brisbane's luxury home market is showing signs it is past the worst. Agents are optimistic that a recovery is imminent, …
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Australian house prices grew at their fastest pace since 2003, rising 3.7 per cent in the three months to September.
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Tasmania's Clarence City is Australia’s best property bargain according to a list of the country’s 100 hottest suburbs.
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Crunching the numbers for the rent versus purchase argument can produce almost any answer you like, depending on the assumptions made for factors such as intere…
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For those who prefer the safety of bricks and mortar to the sharemarket, it has been a stellar decade - Sydney's property prices have doubled.
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Housing affordability has worsened for the second straight quarter and could be returning to "woeful'' levels of 2007 and 2008, a survey says.
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Australia is a special country but I'm beginning to think there's something too special about the nation's home prices.
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THE Australian dollar appears headed towards parity with the US dollar after Reserve Bank governor Glenn Stevens agreed the economy's strength could drive it"wa…
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Now that they have begun, the question is not so much how many more rate rises are to come, but when. One, or even several, rate rises won't be fatal. The damag…
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House prices may surge about 20 per cent or more in some of Australia's largest cities over the next three years, driven higher by on-going shortages and with A…
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Brisbane experienced strong rental growth over the September quarter despite national levels buckling under the current economic downturn.
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International investors, local "smart money" and the aspirational classes are combining to create a mini property boom in Perth's western suburbs, industry sour…
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