In this category you will find financial articles and useful information on the topic -First time buyers.
An unintended consequence of the housing market boom is the accumulation in personal wealth, with the Productivity Commission this week releasing a report that inheritances are rising dramatically.
In 2018 the aver…
Taking out a mortgage to buy a property is a big step and one of the first questions you’ll face is, which lender should you choose?
It can be an overwhelming decision because comparing home loan products is diffic…
You’ve got a brand-new mortgage, most of the boxes are unpacked, you’re settling in nicely and you’ve made a few loan repayments. Home ownership is going well, so far. But an unexpected turn of events means you need t…
Buyer confidence in Australia’s real estate market is riding high at the moment – the highest in more than a decade – but what’s behind this surge to the housing market and what finance factors are driving t…
Interest rate bingo entails making a successful guess about when we’ll see our first interest rate rise in Australia since 2010, and for most of the year it’s been even money that the increase will come in e…
When you’re buying property in this market you need to move fast. Days on market are short at the moment (although they are starting to stretch). Property prices are still rising, although the pace is slowin…
One of the biggest property stories to emerge from COVID in 2020 and 2021 has been the flight to regional areas, with all three states on the Eastern seaboard reporting a jump in property prices as demand sp…
As forecast last week by your truly, skyrocketing house prices in most markets are putting the financial regulators under pressure to take action – and this week they have.
The Australian Prudential Regul…
Real estate research business, REA (the News Corp business behind realestate.com.au and others) announced its top 30 suburbs for house price and unit price growth recently, delivering a list that included so…
There’s some well-worn rhetoric that gets ample airtime on the nation’s media landscape – the Australian dream of home ownership is dead for the next generation, with young first-home buyers being priced out…
