Investing where you’ve last invested isn’t bright. new research finds that two thirds of property investors do.
- Senior Lecturer in Finance, University of Sydney
There’s been quite a bit of speculation over whether Australia has a property market bubble - where house prices are over-inflated compared to a benchmark - and when it might burst. According to housing…
There are many hidden costs and inefficiencies in housing markets. Blockchain is poised to transform that.
New analysis shows low-income earners, particularly in Tasmania and South Australia, face the most mortgage stress.
It doesn’t matter how much Oliver Curtis and John Hartman stood to gain from insider trading, what matters is what we all lose from market tampering.
Negative gearing reform is complex and fraught, with a chequered recent history. The key to any future reform will be finding a way to equitably change it without losing its benefit.
Where investment loans were the fastest growing category of housing finance at the end of 2015, it is now the leading area of contraction.
Even 12 months ago, challenging negative gearing seemed off limits. Now, there are real plans for reform.
In the next couple of weeks you’ll start to see all the signs of the change of season. Like many Sydneysiders, I’m looking forward to the longer hours of sunshine and flowers blossoming. Inevitably, and…
Gladys Berejiklian’s first budget as NSW Treasurer includes some infrastructure goodies but misses an opportunity to reduce the state’s reliance on property taxes.
With today’s cut, interest rates are at a record low, due in large part to ongoing concerns about the global economy.
Scrapping stamp duty on property transfers altogether would make a meaningful, positive impact on the housing market. But don’t hold your breath; the NSW government is addicted to stamp duty.
The move by the RBA to a record-low 2.25% cash rate at its first meeting for 2015 has unsurprisingly reignited speculation of a “turbo-charged” bubble in Sydney’s house prices. In actuality, the rate cut…
Arbitrage is a term often associated with billion dollar hedge funds and opaque finance trades. But it exists in day-to-day life in all sort of ways – from “gaming” public transport, to pitchsiding at…
The latest house price index figures released by RP Data earlier this week show a year-on-year increase in property values in Sydney of 14.3%. This has sparked the current hot debate on property prices…
Is there a national housing supply problem? No, but there is a problem of access to affordable housing in certain regions. Last month, Reserve Bank Governor, Glenn Stevens commented on the need for “animal…
