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Melbourne Property Market Update – July 26, 2014

By Peter Sarmas on 26 Jul 2014 No Comments yet, your thoughts are very welcome

Though the property market has slowed down due to the chilly weather, house prices have jumped in many of the capital cities. In fact national house prices grew 10 per cent over the financial year. In his weekly market commentary, Peter Sarmas considers how the property market performed during the June quarter ...

Obvious Rental Market Slowdown As Vacancies Continue To Surge

By Louis Christopher on 24 Jul 2014 No Comments yet, your thoughts are very welcome

Figures released by SQM Research have revealed that the number of residential vacancies increased during June. A 2.3 per cent vacancy rate was recorded nationally, comprising 69,258 vacancies. This result reflects a genuine upward trend in vacancies around the country, and the highest result since the December 2013 seasonal spike ...

Melbourne Property Market Update – July 12, 2014

By Peter Sarmas on 12 Jul 2014 No Comments yet, your thoughts are very welcome

The RBA’s monthly decision on interest rates is expected to administer a period of increased stability in rates until 2015. Yet the household debt to income ratio is at an all-time high as dwelling prices rise and borrowing increases. Peter Sarmas discusses the RBA's decision and the impact it might have on the property market ...

The Importance of Consumer Confidence to the Housing and Mortgage Markets

By CoreLogic RP Data on 2 Jul 2014 No Comments yet, your thoughts are very welcome

With the media focused on ‘doom and gloom’ for the property market over the past few weeks, Craig Mackenzie, who heads up RP Data’s corporate services division, takes us through the key drivers in the market. He explains that history and statistics tells us that there are two key drivers to the housing and related mortgage finance markets ...

Forget Affordability Measures and Ask Yourself Some Tough Questions

By CoreLogic RP Data on 18 Jun 2014 No Comments yet, your thoughts are very welcome

There are many measures of affordability in the marketplace. Sadly, I believe that many of these measures fail to accurately depict the affordability or otherwise of housing in Australia. The main reason being that housing affordability is extremely complex and many factors drive the issue ...

RBA’S Data Cull

By Louis Christopher on 11 Jun 2014 No Comments yet, your thoughts are very welcome

Journalist, Michael Pascoe has reported that the Reserve Bank of Australia has dropped off the FHB statistics from their monthly chart pack series ...