Rate cuts and short supply ignite housing market boom
With listings 20 per cent below average and values climbing, Cotality's Tim Lawless is one of the experts who says the supply-demand imbalance could push annual growth into double digits.
With listings 20 per cent below average and values climbing, Cotality's Tim Lawless is one of the experts who says the supply-demand imbalance could push annual growth into double digits.
Property Council's Matt Kandellaars says drop in home building approvals during July was disappointing.
Economists suggest unexpected rise in CPI will mean a September rate cut is unlikely - but expect the RBA will trim in November.
Sub-penthouse in swanky Sydney precinct confiscated as part of long-running investigation into excise fraud involving the import of alcohol.
Regulator says using a MyGov-style, multi factor authentication-enabled portal is the best way best scams that are costing millions of dollars.
Unwitting or greedy accomplices are handing over their details so that fraudsters can set up complex stings and funnel funds out of the reach of Australian authorities.
We need to be reinforcing verbally and consistently that we're never going to e-mail BSB and account numbers to clients, industry leader Brook Durling says – as new figures show the threat of devastating multi-million-dollar losses is growing.
House prices could surge and mortgage defaults rise when a government scheme to help first home buyers begins ahead of schedule, experts warn.
In a decision that "won't be met by universal happiness" the first new train station in a decade will sit next to Australia's most expensive housing market.
In an exclusive interview, AUSTRAC chief executive Brendan Thomas tells conveyancers why the new AML regime is so important and why its built to support, not sink, small operators.