{"id":21093,"date":"2018-05-05T01:00:53","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T15:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/realestatetalk.com.au\/?p=21093"},"modified":"2018-05-05T01:00:53","modified_gmt":"2018-05-04T15:00:53","slug":"longest-interest-rate-dry-spell-renovation-vs-marriage-aussie-regions-show-signs-of-increases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/channels.realty.com.au\/realtytalk\/longest-interest-rate-dry-spell-renovation-vs-marriage-aussie-regions-show-signs-of-increases\/","title":{"rendered":"Longest interest rate dry spell + Renovation vs marriage + Aussie regions show signs of increases"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Longest interest rate dry spell<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The Reserve Bank of Australia has decided to keep interest rates steady at 1.5%<br \/>\nThe RBA hasn\u2019t raised official interest rates since late 2010, while rates have remained stagnant since August 2016\u00a0\u2013 the longest spell of policy inertia to date.<br \/>\nWhile last year economists were predicting interest rates to finally rise in early 2018, most backtracked and now believe a rate hike won\u2019t occur until later this year&#8230;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.realestate.com.au\/news\/interest-rates-kept-on-hold-yet-again-at-1-5\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Is renovating worth as much as your marriage?\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Home improvement is a boom industry but it might be have an unexpected casualty \u2013 your marriage.<br \/>\nExperienced divorce lawyer Jeremy Sutton says the cases where couples are facing financial issues (about 50 per cent of his workload), over-spending on home renovations take up a substantial portion&#8230;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.domain.com.au\/advice\/don8217t-risk-your-marriage-how-to-prevent-a-renovation-from-ending-in-divorce-20180430-h0zf4r\/?utm_campaign=strap-masthead&amp;utm_source=the-age&amp;utm_medium=link&amp;ref=pos1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">READ MORE<\/a><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Is housing as affordable today as 1990?\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>GETTING that first home might seem like an insurmountable task in modern day Australia, but according to a leading real estate investment body it was not as bad as it seems&#8230;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.realestate.com.au\/news\/crisis-what-crisis-why-this-expert-believes-housing-is-more-affordable-now-than-in-1990\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Aussie regions showing signs of increases<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Property research site, LocationScore.com.au have released their half-yearly LocationScore Property Swingers Report \u2013 a study that lays bare demand vs. supply across Australia\u2019s 20 largest Significant Urban Areas&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/realestatetalk.com.au\/aussie-swingers-reveal-future-rises\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">READ MORE<\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Longest interest rate dry spell The Reserve Bank of Australia has decided to keep interest rates steady at 1.5% The RBA hasn\u2019t raised official interest rates since late 2010, while rates have remained stagnant since August 2016\u00a0\u2013 the longest spell of policy inertia to date&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176692471,"featured_media":21094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11,13,19,25,29],"tags":[70,131],"class_list":["post-21093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kevin-turner-sponsored-channels","category-kevin-update","category-latest-story","category-property-news-update","category-sponsored-channels","category-video","tag-featured","tag-videos","post_format-post-format-video"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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