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Modern bank-centric economies are money-hungry beasts that can get quite grumpy and even out of hand when starved of cash flow.
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Holding back unstoppable tides, or attempting to, has rich historical precedents for world leaders with the most famous related to England's Viking King, Canute…
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The state government says it can build a 12 kilometre rail line to the airport without forcibly acquiring homes or businesses along the route.
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Sydney is more densely populated than Chicago, Seattle and Los Angeles but recent comparisons have painted the opposite picture by measuring Sydney the wrong wa…
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In theory, the Reserve Bank could slash interest rates in the hope of giving both inflation and wages a boost.
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The full impact of the end of the mining boom on WA’s property market has been revealed with new figures showing falls of up to 73 per cent in house and unit va…
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A record glut of vacant apartments across Sydney suburbs is creating “zombie blocks” where one-in-four flats are now empty.
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More than five million baby boomers are the most active players in the property market as they sell up the family home.
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The Reserve Bank of Australia has declared it will remain vigilant around high levels of household indebtedness, leading economists to conclude that the central…
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The WA property market is tipped to be one of the best in the country over the next two years.
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The TV ratings of “The Block” provided a fairly good, if not anecdotal, contrarian indicator on the outlook for the market.
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Australia's banks have largely completed a long-running campaign to bolster their mortgage lending standards, the financial regulator says, signalling it will n…
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