Long way to go to address housing shortfall
Master Builders boss says 'we're going to fall about 260,000 homes short if we do not change policy settings'.
Master Builders boss says 'we're going to fall about 260,000 homes short if we do not change policy settings'.
The head of Australia's largest customer-owned bank has noticed a slowdown in the housing market but says his institution is well-positioned to ride it out.
Peak housing body says 'interest rates and tax increases set to reduce the number of new homes that would have been built'.
Uplifts in cash rate 'make new housing development less viable when Australia already has a significant shortage of housing'.
New CBA report says 'there is an important distinction between stopping a shortage from getting worse and eliminating it'.
Inquiry urges recommitment to interoperability but industry says report 'confirmed what was already widely known'.
Australia's borrowers and lenders are resilient enough to navigate financial troubles ahead, the RBA believes, as it releases its stability temperature check.
The nation's biggest bank has renewed its commitment to maintain branches for regional Australians for at least another four years.
The size of your energy bill could depend on where you live as Australian states and territories take different approaches to electrification and efficiency.
A November rate rise is still on the cards for the Reserve Bank, even after a slightly softer-than-expected underlying inflation outcome in August.