Brisbane Apartment

Interest rates for residential housing are at lifetime record lows.  Banks are awash in cheap cash that they want to lend.  Lending standard...

From the AFR on 30 July 2014, p. 28 "Recent house price appreciation has been driven by more than simply a strongly growing populatio...

From Westpac: • Westpac has revised its profile for the RBA cash rate in 2014. Previously we expected that rates would be reduced by 2...

I have conducted a review across about 20 apartment rental properties in Brisbane and S.E. Queensland, comparing the 12/13 FY with the previ...

The AFR had a story on Wednesday titled "Outlook for property on a weaker dollar." An abstract from ABIX is as follows: "...

" AMP Capital’s head of investment strategy, Shane Oliver, also predicts “a year or two” of house price gains but “not a lot”.   “It’s ...

"Australia’s housing recovery, which is seven months young, is solidifying. The question is how hard and long it will run. In January l...

"One important difference in 2001 was that Australia’s household debt-to-disposable income ratio was a substantially lower 95 per cent....

Dwelling values across all of Australia’s capital city housing markets, except Melbourne, rose over November with values now just -0.1 per c...

Chris Joye had APM (a division of Fairfax) conduct an analysis to determine in which markets most buyers have lost or made money.  APM looke...

An interesting article by Chris Joye in the Weekend AFR, worth reading: The Perils of Leveraging Property Investment

"The head of real estate strategy at Macquarie Capital, Rod Cornish, uses an affordability measure that brings together the mortgage ...

The Australian Reserve Bank decreased its interest rate today by 0.25%.  BOQ immediately dropped its home lending rate by 0.2%.  Will this a...

I like this quote from the Chief Economist from Morgan Stanley: "Traditionally what has hurt people has not been rising (interest) ra...

In a bad sign for property owners, ANZ has announced it will lift rates by 0.06%.  Effective 20 April 2012, ANZ’s new standard variable mort...

Based on approximately 178,000 home sales over the year to July, the market-leading RP Data-Rismark Hedonic Home Value Index recorded a seas...

Brisbane has been the weakest performing capital city market over recent times with property values down -7.3% from their March 2010 peak. W...

An increase in the cash rate will spark house price falls, according to Cameron Kusher, senior research analyst at RP Data. Rents and yiel...

The big story today is Westpac's announcement that they predict that Australian interest rates will drop rather than rise over the next ...

"These figures show a substantial shift in the indebtedness of Australian borrowers, who are now significantly more sensitive to moves ...