Property News Update

Longest interest rate dry spell The Reserve Bank of Australia has decided to keep interest rates steady at 1.5% The RBA hasn’t raised official interest rates since late 2010, while rates have remained stagnant since August 2016 – the longest spell of policy inertia to date. While last year...

Why property price growth in big capital cities is becoming more about international drivers The International Monetary Fund said property prices in cities like Sydney and Melbourne are becoming more and more influenced by overseas factors rather than domestic elements...

Kieran Clair and Kevin catch up to discuss the stories that grabbed their attention this week.  Among them is a warning to Melbourne unit owners, negative rent growth (the boys ask how growth can be negative!) and they name the top 10 growth suburbs in...

What’s next for Australian property prices? Economic experts are at loggerheads over the Australian property market’s health and outlook, with UBS arguing a 35 per cent slump in the mortgage borrowing power of Australians, and steep house price falls, is possible. READ MORE Perth improves New CoreLogic...

Rent free home hurdles VIDEO applications, an interview with four CEOs and you have to be sustainably minded - but not too sustainably minded. Could this rent-free Melbourne home have the nation’s toughest tenancy application? Check it out!  NIMBYs costing Aussies billions So-called ‘nimbyism’...