Articles by Larry Schlesinger
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August 2013
- Apartment development still not all that fashionable for Alex Perry
- Melbourne in the housing spotlight: Are there any spring 2013 hotspots?
- In profile: WBP Property Group's senior property manager Phillip Walters
- Chiropractor takes up last retail space at the Optus Centre on 367 Collins Street office
- David Devine remains apartment king of Fortitude Valley
- Bendigo passes on full rate with 6.01 standard variable rate from August
- Housing market conditions improving: RBA
- ANZ passes on RBA rate cut in full with 5.88% standard variable rate from August
- Significant investor visa numbers finally hit double figures as fund managers ramp up compliant offerings
- Major banks intensify battle for borrowers with home loan rate cuts
- The new house and apartment buyers' guide - state-by-state first-home owner grant availability
- The new house and apartment buyers' guide - state-by-state first-home owner grant availability
- WA bumps up first-home owner grant to $10,000 for new homes
- WA bumps up first-home owner grant to $10,000 for new homes
- Investorist website links residential developers with off the plan marketers
- Commonwealth Bank cuts three-year fixed rates to 4.89% and makes fixed-rate pledge
- Unemployment rate remains unchanged at 5.7% in July
- Commonwealth Bank’s Lilydale premises prove a cash cow at auction
- Real estate agents and mortgage brokers must have SMSF licence: SPAA
- Real estate agents and mortgage brokers must have SMSF licence: SPAA
- Reserve Bank takes cash rate back to pre-1960s but economy not quite swinging yet
- Mortgage market rally continues with 2.7% rise in home loan commitments in June, but still scope for further rate cuts
- No recovery in retail property till at least 2015: NAB Commercial property survey
- Cromwell launches new $129 million unlisted property trust
- House prices will rise unless developers bring new stock to the market: Mark Bouris
- House prices will rise unless developers bring new stock to the market: Mark Bouris
- Six key insights for borrowers thinking of fixing their rate
- Westpac’s Bill Evans sees two more rate cuts but all economists agree on no RBA move in September
- In profile: CBRE's commercial property tax specialist Neale Scott
- Construction tender pricing not rising despite costs increasing for builders: Chart of the week
- SMSF demand for high-yielding Bankstown strata offices rising
- Australia Post's 999 year “peppercorn” lease in North Melbourne may yet be reviewed
- ME Bank and Heritage Bank pass on rate cut in full
- Westpac passes on 28 basis points to borrowers from August 19
- Less "dovish" RBA may pause on further rate cuts: HSBC's Paul Bloxham
- Commonwealth Bank passes on full rate cut from August 14
- ING Direct pass on full rate cut from August
- Yellow Brick Road passes on full rate cut
- NAB cuts standard variable home loan rate to 5.88%
- What the RBA decision may mean for you
- Sydney drives strong recovery in residential house and land market: National Land Survey
- Perth leads capital city house prices up 2.4% in June quarter: ABS
- RBA cuts cash rate to new record low of 2.5%
- Any RBA rate cut passed on in full won’t do much for property market: John Symond
- Further rate cuts won’t cause a housing bubble: Harry Triguboff
- More liquid shares just outperform property over last 20 years - if you don’t mind the volatility: Rismark study
- Major banks lose home loan market share as FHBs dwindle: AFG
- Sunland acquires first mortgage over LM Investment Management’s Maddison Estate
- Banks deliberately burying the true mortgage rate: Mark Bouris
- Cashed-up empty nesters the most financially comfortable: ME Bank survey
- Unlicensed Melbourne conveyancer stops operating following Consumer Affairs action
- Former Sydney mortgage broker pleads guilty to submitting false documents to support $7.5 million in home loan applications
- Banks may pass on new government deposit levy to mortgage holders
- Abigroup and Baulderstone brand names disappear into restructured Lend Lease
- Creditors vote to wind up LM Investment Management with possible action against directors
- Sydney housing market strongest in last 20 years: Residex
- Home buyer confidence among borrowers at highest level for six years: Genworth
- Australian households more financially stressed but not from mortgage repayments: ING Direct Wellbeing index
July 2013
- “Mixed bag” housing market gains momentum with 1.6% rise over July: RP Data-Rismark
- National office vacancy rate hits 10% for first time since 1999: PCA
- Brisbane warehouses offer 9% yields for $500,000 investment
- Home lending to investors surges to highest growth rate in two years in June: RBA
- NAB tips two RBA cash rate cuts in August and November
- ANZ revises RBA interest rate cut forecast from November to August
- In profile: WBP Property Group commercial valuer, Justin Thomas
- Perth housing now strongest vendors' market since 2006: MacroPlan Dimasi
- House Rules sponsorship delivers returns for Woolworths' Masters DIY stores
- UK and German remains top European locations for retail property investment
- Some signs of life "pop-up" on Bridge Road as Witchery premises sold and leasing deals done
- Change in first-home buyer grants a factor in Victorian dwelling approvals slump: Westpac
- RBA boss Glenn Stevens dampens expectations for strong house price growth
- Building approvals disappoint with unexpected 6.9% fall in June
- Matthew Guy approves 37-storey hotel and apartment tower at Digital Harbour in Docklands
- Aussie records 383% growth in Macquarie loans sold through its brokers
- Economists favour rate cut on August 6: Bloomberg survey
- The four major banks lowest fixed and variable mortgage offerings ahead of August 6 RBA cash rate decision
- Residential building recovery to transition from “high rise to bungalows” as NSW picks up Victoria’s slack: BIS Shrapnel
- Yellow Brick Road upgrades credit licence structure following ASIC concerns
- Legal bills were $100,000 a month plus for five years: John Symond
- Daniel Grollo's Grocon joins forces with Harry Stamoulis on 555 Collins Street tower project
- Investor magazines' 2011 unit hotspots are more misses than hits two years on
- Stockland appoints former Australand executive Tiernan O'Rourke as new finance boss
- A rate cut in August is “justified” but inflation and economic picture “complicated”: AFR's Alan Mitchell
- Dexus acquires 14.9% of Commonwealth Office Property Fund as big players circle
- Revisions help Melbourne house prices rise 5% in June quarter as Sydney, Perth and Canberra record new peaks: APM
- Possible oversupply of inner Brisbane units push prices down 2.4% in June quarter: APM
- Inflation reading leaves door open for cash rate cut but decision “the toss of a coin”: CommSec
- Still plenty of space at 357 Collins Street as Australand office vacancy rate rises to 8.4%
- Commonwealth Bank makes offer to bring listed office and retail property funds in-house
- Inflation up a low 0.4% in June quarter leaving scope for RBA to cut rates on August 6
- Sydney’s Wolli Creek and Melbourne’s Parkville among strong performers as Australand forecasts improved residential performance in second half of 2013
- Residential development sites remain riskiest investments with one in four “distressed”: LMW monitor
- Macquarie profits forecast to rise in 2014 financial year as home loans business grows 22.4% in three months
- In profile: James Crawford, Colliers International's Gold Coast commercial property specialist
- CBD retail vacancy rates rising: Chart of the week
- Domino's premises in Ararat offers small investors 6% plus yield potential with long lease
- Melburnians asked to vote on six grand proposals for Flinders St Station
- Harry Triguboff to quit "volatile" Gold Coast market after one last high-rise hurrah
- ME Bank cuts three-year fixed home loan rate to 4.94%
- Listed property trusts help super funds to best returns in 16 years: Chant West
- CapitaLand to retain majority stake in Australand ahead of half-year results announcement
- How have the investor magazine hotspots fared two years on?
- Gender divide widens as men show greater affinity for property investing: RateCity survey
- Investor funds worth $154 million frozen in rural non-bank lender Gippsland Secured Investments
- Mortgage aggregator AFG angrily denies sales rumour and threatens legal action
- WA leads rise in new residential property listings: RP Data
- Mortgage activity continuing to trend up led by Victoria: RP Data
- Hobart and Brisbane vendors discounting houses by almost 10% to find buyers: RP Data
- Sydney private treaty house prices fall 4% in three weeks: RP Data
- Sydney, Perth and Melbourne show strong annual growth in home values: RP Data
- The cheapest fixed and variable mortgage offerings as August 6 RBA cash rate decision looms
- Benign inflation reading sets scene for August rate cut: Shane Oliver
- Melbourne unit prices up 2.8% in June quarter with Hawthorn units up 20.5%
- Regional Victorian house prices flat in June quarter, but Murrindindi among growth spots
- ASIC freezes assets of former Wickham Securities chief executive
- NSW investors flock to property market as investor loans reach record levels: APM
- Quest serviced apartment yields rising with Tasmania, Gladstone and Wagga yields near 8%
- Do you agree with John McGrath who tips a pick-up in property market confidence after the federal election?
- Chinese appetite for Australian residential property hits $5.4 billion as demand for luxury property rises
- Angry off the plan Evo apartment investors join Greens to protest East West Link Parkville plans
- Greater Building Society cuts one-year fixed-rate to 4.39%
- ASIC seeks orders to wind up $326 million LM mortgage fund and realise assets
- International jewellers take up prime space on Swanston Street
- Domestic and Chinese visitors drive improvement in Gold Coast and Far North Queensland hotel markets as mining capitals slip: Deloitte
- More pain for first-home buyers as Genworth and QBE LMI push up mortgage insurance premiums
- Australian housing is not overvalued but “dire predictions” spooking new housing investors: Christopher Joye
- More pain for first-home buyers as Genworth and QBE LMI push up mortgage insurance premiums
- “Solid” leasing interest for high quality industrial property: Dexus
- New dwelling commencements fell 5.5% in March quarter: ABS
- Mortgage wars: Banks claim lower discounted rates than building societies and credit unions
- Zarraffa’s Coffee signs 10 year Gold Coast lease
- East-West link casts no shadow over Australand's Parkville project progress but Evo buyers caught in the middle
- National CBD office vacancy rates rises to 10.9%: Chart of the week
- Reduced Bankstown office offers 7% plus yield potential
- Uncertainty over August rate cut despite NAB, Westpac and Commonwealth Bank confidence
- Brisbane investors takes hit on sale of historic 181 George Street Brisbane building
- “Gradual” improvement in housing conditions as dwelling prices rise: RBA July minutes
- Australian banks way ahead of global rivals on property market exposure: Moody's
- Melbourne leads continued easing of rental market with rents unlikely to rise until 2015: SQM
- Commercial and rural property agents to keep their real estate licences in a move to protect small investors
- Real estate businesses facing ATO super compliance crackdown
- Property developers to face increased tax scrutiny as ATO targets illegal “phoenix” arrangements
- Rick Stein and co selling Tower Estate Winery portfolio and may tempt Asian buyers
- In profile: Savills' head of residential site sales, Alex Adams
- Commercial lending up 2.5% in May: ABS
- Australian banks at risk to “fickle” and “modestly overvalued” housing sector: Moody’s economist
- Fixed and variable conundrum remains as longer term outlook for interest rates remains cloudy
- Optimists outnumber pessimists on house prices despite drop in sentiment: Westpac Red Book
- ANZ leaves variable mortgage rates unchanged at 6.13%
- Mortgage lending up lower than expected 1.8% in May: ABS
- Queensland dominates list of 692 suburbs where you could be better off buying than renting: RP Data
- Queensland dominates list of 692 suburbs where you could be better off buying than renting: RP Data
- “Dodgy” old apartment investments but with attractive yields under $500,000 available close to Brisbane CBD: HTW
- Sub-$500,000 Sunshine Coast investment options “drying up” as property values firm “slightly”: HTW
- Sydney Waterloo apartments offer “attractive” sub-$500,000 investment opportunities: HTW
- August rate cut is "on the table": Christopher Joye
- Don't fix if you are thinking of selling your home and 4 other fixed-rate traps to avoid
- Foreign buyers of new residential property have doubled in two years: NAB survey
- LMIM founder Peter Drake under pressure to repay $17 million loan as receivers appointed to $326 million mortgage fund
- Property prices to rise just 2.4% over next two years as sentiment weakens: NAB survey
- Subdivision a possible solution for Sydney CBD landlords with vacant office space
- The cheapest fixed and variable mortgage offerings as August rate cut seems more likely
- Home buyer sentiment falls sharply in July: Westpac index
- Laing + Simmons to bring trust accounting and other admin tasks in-house as part of shared services offering
- Sunshine Coast hinterland railway towns are good investment picks: HTW
- A night in the high roller's vacuum cleaner, a meal in the bamboo bowl? Sydney adds to list of nicknamed architectural icons
- ANZ appoints Glenn Maguire as new Asia Pacific chief economist
- Echo knocked out as James Packer wins amber light for Barangaroo South Casino
- Private sector house approvals trend up 1.5% in May: ABS
- The Aussie dollar dive may have been part of Glenn Stevens' RBA script, not lower mortgage rates
- Residential properties listed for sale in Sydney down 23.1% in a year adding further pressure to house prices: SQM
- Housing grants a help to sell not a help to buy: Steve Keen
- Housing grants a “poisoned chalice” that create bubbles and leave buyers worse off: Steve Keen
- Housing grants a “poisoned chalice” that create bubbles and leave buyers worse off: Steve Keen
- Investors turn on the taps as four Coles liquor stores ring up $15 million tab
- Dixon Advisory launches first Australian property fund
- More new dwellings needed but we’re still “lucky”: Glenn Stevens
- New home sales rise to highest level in 18 months: HIA
- Retail sales up just 0.1% in May, well below expectations
- Herron Todd White launches new brand identity and logo
- Quarterly distressed property listings fall to lowest in two years but fresh wave building: Knight Frank
- Quarterly inflation data, the Australian dollar and Chinese data to guide RBA thinking on possible August rate cut
- ANZ chief economist Warren Hogan calls October election and no rate cut likely until November: Tweet of the day
- In profile: Jones Lang LaSalle's Asia Pacific managing director Mike Walsh
- Private investor buys south east Melbourne warehouse for $550,000 at auction
- Major CBD office sales continue to surge: Chart of the week
- Gold Coast trumps Sunshine Coast as most delinquent Queensland coastal market
- HIA summit to address Australia’s affordability and availability housing challenges with stellar line-up of speakers
- Chinese buyer acquires Bourke Street development site for $22 million
- Centuria prepares for A-REIT float with trusteeship of North Sydney trophy asset amid expectations of strong 2013 results
- AFG mortgage sales up 17% in June year-on-year amid “patchy” market
- RBA leaves cash rate unchanged at 2.75% in July
- Retail property landlords facing “greatest challenge in decades” with retailing profits set to fall over next four years
- Greater Western Sydney replaces Gold Coast as most delinquent region: Fitch
- Nelson Bay retains most delinquent postcode crown, but Surfers Paradise drops down list: Fitch
- Interest rates and inflation much lower since John Howard left office: Stephen Koukoulas Tweet of the Day
- Eight potential pitfalls to watch out for when you buy off-the-plan
- Residential property’s steady rise as gold sinks: Daily Property Observer list
- Trust account “anomalies” identified among Parramatta estate agents following Fair Trading visits
- AMP Capital fund buys 50% of Mirvac’s 200 George Street office tower project for $317 million
- Sydney unit value hits $500,000 for first time with 4.9% yield
- Property market rebounds in June with values up 3.8% for the 2013 financial year
June 2013
- CFS Retail Property among poorest performing A-REIT share prices for 2013 financial year
- Charter Hall ends financial year as top performing property group
- Emporium Melbourne's opening delayed until 2014
- Former Raine & Horne Brisbane real estate agent jailed for $412,000 trust account fraud
- Provident Capital managing director Michael O’Sullivan ran separate financing company for defaulters: hearing
- Newcastle and Wollongong forecast price growth almost matching Sydney over next three years: BIS
- Surging Sydney to lead “uneven” recovery in residential property market over next three years: BIS Shrapnel
- SMSF investors flock to Folkestone Wollongong unlisted office fund offering 10.5% return
- Gold Coast estate agency fined $50,000 over 231 cases of trust account misuses
- Committee formed to represent overseas investor interest in collapsed Gold Coast lender LM Investment Management
- Wickham Securities auditor accepts ASIC life ban as NAB seeks to repossess founder Bradley Sherwin’s Wooloowin house
- Adelaide housing market remains subdued with "intractably high" unemployment: APM
- Invest in property now but with 10-year outlook: Mark Bouris
- Two-year fixed-rate loans continue to fall below variable offerings: RateCity
- Australian household wealth rises to record levels with an improving appetite to spend: CommSec
- Perth house prices to hit record levels in 2013: APM
- Property market to reclaim lost ground with 1.7% rise in June to date: RP Data
- Citi forecasts of 3% rise in house prices and then slight correction from March 2014 “reasonable”: RP Data's Tim Lawless
- Little chance of housing bubble building in Australia but China effect may be overstated: Saul Eslake
- House prices to rise a further 3% to March 2014 and then fall around 2% under China effect: Citi Research
- Disputed Riverpoint mansion on Isle of Capri sells ahead of July 9 auction
- Kevin Rudd’s first-home saver account scheme gathers pace with $417 million set aside for future home purchases
- Kevin Rudd’s first-home saver account scheme gathers pace with $417 million set aside for future home purchases
- Tasmanian liquor store leased to Woolworths sells on 8.5% yield after failing to attract a buyer under the hammer
- Geelong seaside cafes sell on strong yields at auction
- Investors find ‘salvation’ under the hammer on Melbourne retail strips
- Chinese commercial investment in Australia surges in 2013: Chart of the week
- Stockland appoints new heads of its residential and retirement living businesses
- Charter Hall, GPT among bidders for unlisted Australand property fund: StreetTalk
- In profile: Allens real estate partner Alister Fitzgerald
- House prices up 1.7% in April quarter led by Perth: APM
- Melbourne leads modest 0.9% gain in unit prices in April quarter: APM
- 10 tips to paying off your home loan quicker
- More than one in two putting off home purchase decisions until after September 14 election: QBE LMI survey
- Property bear Steve Keen to close subscription site Debunking Economics
- Surging Quest leads strongly growing Australian serviced apartment market
- Commonwealth Bank shedding of commercial property trusts dismissed as “speculation”
- The Tony Abbott effect? Raine & Horne agent attributes Northern Beaches sale to likely Coalition election victory
- Perth settlements agent fined $8,000 for misuse of trust account funds
- Australian housing bubble risk “overblown” with prices to peak in March 2014: Citi
- Harry Triguboff buys Mascot site for $47 million with plans for 400 apartments
- Receivers seek buyers for four Waratah Cooperative Housing Society mortgage portfolios worth $102 million
- The four property phases you need to know according to David Koch
- Pilbara rental market starts to lose some of its sparkle
- The current cheapest fixed and variable mortgages as RBA expected to hold fire in July
- CUA cuts one, two and three-year fixed-rates to 4.89%
- Significant investor visas to take up to nine months to process
- Mortgage arrears rise for self-employed and credit impaired borrowers: Fitch
- Bitcoin users in ATO sights as use in property transactions set to rise
- Homeownership sentiment improves as demand for new homes rises: QBE LMI survey
- New dwelling starts to fall 11% in Geelong: BIS Shrapnel
- Five SMSF property spruiker tricks you should not fall for
- Brisbane to lead residential construction pick-up as Melbourne and Pilbara region contract: BIS Shrapnel
- Five SMSF property spruiker tricks you should not fall for
- Macquarie lifts its Yellow Brick Road stake to 10.5%
- Court confirms interim injunction against rent roll seller Mark Whittingham
- Most economists tip no RBA cash rate cut in July: Bloomberg
- Auction of Surry Hills Legion Cabs rank site draws a crowd and sells to apartment developer for $18 million
- SMSF property investment at risk of becoming “playground for dodgy spruikers”: Peter Kell
- SMSF property investment at risk of becoming “playground for dodgy spruikers”: Peter Kell
- In profile: Yellow Brick Road's Andrew Morello, the original Apprentice
- Canberra office vacancy rate could reach 15% under Coalition job cut plans: BIS Shrapnel
- Getting a bigger home loan: Seven tips to boost your borrowing power
- How to find property bargains and not ‘lemons’ in the current market
- Tasmania leads flat mortgage market in June: RP Data
- Modest housing recovery not good news for next generation of entrepreneurs: RBA
- Perth's Nedlands leads nation with best resale profit of $467,500
- Greater Building Society cuts one-year fixed-rate home loan to 4.54%
- Sydney leads rise in private treaty median house prices in June: RP Data
- Credit union and building society mortgage fees $300 cheaper than major banks: RBA
- Banks earning less - just $1.2 billion in mortgage fees in 2012: RBA paper
- Former Melbourne property developer Carlo Cini charged with 58 offences
- A third of Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast properties re-sold at loss: RP Data
- Shopping centre landlords owed $500,000 in rent following collapse of Lisa Ho fashion group
- Mirvac director Elana Rubin joins advisory board of Alan Schwartz's Qualitas property investment firm
- State by state government property grants and stamp duty concessions: The expiry dates you need to know
- State by state government property grants and stamp duty concessions: The expiry dates you need to know
- Jupiters Casino a "three-star property" that needs refurbishment: Gold Coast mayor
- Under $500,000, close to the beach or with a view the best “opportunities” for investors on the Sunshine Coast: HTW
- Darwin's northern suburbs present capital growth opportunities: HTW
- Charter Hall buys Bankwest Place and Raine Square in Perth for $458 million
- SMSF property investment adviser charged with eight counts of fraud
- ME Bank cuts one and five-year fixed-rate home loans
- Sydney hoteliers list luxury Fijian island resorts with combined $22.7 million price tag
- Boral to ditch Sydney CBD for cheaper suburban office digs: report
- Chapel Street landlord swaps Eurotrash for Massive Wieners American-style diner
- St.George the slowest at passing on RBA rate cuts: Credit Suisse report
- Overvalued, unaffordable property keeping first-home buyers on the sidelines: QBE LMI survey
- Four rental property deductions property investors are not allowed to claim to reduce their tax bill
- Overvalued, unaffordable property keeping first-home buyers on the sidelines: QBE LMI survey
- St Kilda Endota spa premises sells to private investor on 6.6% yield with tax depreciation benefits
- Sydney's southwest to get Holiday Inn with Sunnybrook Hotel makeover
- Offshore investors attracted to Australian commercial property despite deteriorating fundamentals: Chart of the week
- Melbourne’s St Kilda Road and Southbank bookend top ten highest rental vacancy rates in Australia: SQM
- Former Bankstown mortgage broker pleads guilty to submitting false loan applications worth $3.8 million
- National residential vacancy rate lifts to 2.1% in May: SQM
- Dwelling prices still “relatively flat” but housing market "appeared to be improving": RBA minutes
- Mortgage brokers to offer borrowers fixed rates from 4.54% through NAB’s Advantedge offering
- Pleasure not profit the reason for most home renovations: Mortgage Choice survey
- NAB’s mortgage broker product HomeSide beats big four banks as best post-GFC offering: new index
- Seven rental property deductions property investors are allowed to claim to reduce their tax bill
- Imminent end of $7,000 FHB grant in the ACT shifting buyer behaviour: LJ Hooker
- Outer suburbs lead 0.4 percentage point rise in Sydney vacancy rate to 2.1% in May: REINSW
- Lend Lease sells 25% stake in Singapore commercial development for $189 million
- Lend Lease share price falls 8% after reporting "softening" construction conditions
- Hong Kong-listed Far East Consortium acquires ISPT’s Spencer Street site for $75 million
- Occupancy rates at Clive Palmer’s Coolum Resort now in low single digits
- Moss Capital plans more shopping centre acquisitions after $32.6m Manning Mall, Taree purchase
- Westpac cuts two and three fixed-rates below 4.99%
- ANZ leaves variable mortgage rates unchanged at 6.13%
- Ban house sales to Aussies among BNZ economist Tony Alexander’s eight radical ways to cool down overheating New Zealand housing market
- Elders Limited in trading halt as it assesses business division bids
- HSBC cuts two-year fixed-rates to 4.59%
- Shopping Centres Australasia buys seven shopping centres for for $135.8 million
- Liberty Financial cuts commercial loan rates by 100 basis points
- Gold Coast “basket case” a good bet for property bargains: David Koch
- South Yarra shines with 19.9% annual rise as part of patchy Melbourne median house prices recovery: Victoria valuer-general report
- Perth rent-to-buy property scheme promoters hit with injunction ahead of trial
- FTI Consulting to seek winding up of LM Investment mortgage fund
- Canberra and Perth record strongest rental growth for houses in March quarter: REIA
- Perth and Melbourne units lead rental growth in March quarter as Sydney stagnates
- Unemployment rate improves slightly to 5.5% in May, but from part-time jobs rise
- Charlton Group to re-open Bedarra Island resort from July 1
- Nearly a third of borrowers fixed their home loan rate in May: Mortgage Choice
- Canberra median house prices down a 'statistical' 8.7% as property market treads water in March quarter: REIA report
- Fixed-rate home loan demand surges to five-year high with one in five fixing: ABS
- ATO to write to 110,000 rental property owners over incorrect rent deductions
- Mirvac gives glimpse of six-storey foyer beneath Richard Rogers-designed Sydney office tower
- Brisbane retail returns stronger than Hong Kong and Singapore: Chart of the week
- Consumer sentiment lifts 4.7% in June with house buying sentiment still elevated: Westpac index
- One in four borrowers intend to buy an investment property in up and coming areas in next four years: Mortgage Choice survey
- Opportunistic and optimistic property investors pick-up slack from dwindling first-home buyer market
- Offshore investor buys art deco Sydney strata space for $1.535 million
- Matthew Guy’s high-rise vision for Melbourne could be a pipe dream
- Competition and much higher real estate advertising rates put Antony Catalano’s seven Melbourne community papers out business: rival
- Recovery in "expensive" A-REIT sector falters with 3.7% fall in May
- SMSF investor acquires Yarraville warehouse with city views for $420,000 on 8% yield
- In profile: Knight Frank's Asian markets and commercial sales director Dominic Ong
- Heritage Bank tops list of cheapest mortgage providers over past 12 years
- REA Group wins trademark battle with realestate1.com.au and monopoly of online term ‘realestate”
- Mortgage lending limps to 0.8% rise in April as FHBs remain on sidelines: ABS
- Cashed up SMSF property investors face higher tax rate for excess super contributions
- Cashed up SMSF property investors face higher tax rate for excess super contributions
- Commonwealth Bank leads big banks offering biggest discounts for big mortgages: RateCity
- Canberra, Perth and Melbourne lead 4.8% rise in May residential listings: SQM
- Where to for the RBA cash rate? Bill Evans and Richard Gibbs see 2%
- Commonwealth Bank cuts three-year fixed-rate home loan to 4.99%
- Detached housing construction sector sinks into steepest decline in eight months: AIG/HIA index
- Perth estate agent disqualified after forging signatures
- House prices will fall in a “slow bleed” fashion: Steve Keen
- Target jobs uncertainty throws spotlight back on Geelong property market
- Gold Coast City Council seeks to sell 180 homes as last resort to reduce $73.5 million rates arrears bill
- Richard Branson's Virgin Active group exercises leasing deal at Leighton Properties' 567 Collins Street development
- Expectations about dwelling values over next six months strongest in Perth and Darwin: RP Data survey
- Property very high on the radars of high net worth investors, and increasingly through SMSFs
- Australians' net wealth rising but not from property: RBA chart pack
- Brisbane property market improving with good investor opportunities around the median price: Herron Todd White
- Winning spin for Canberra's rotating house: $1.2 million Crace record sale
- Domain digital earnings to partially offset print decline: Fairfax
- Canberra's Bonner is Australia's top dwelling approvals and population growth hotspot: HIA
- Still a retail tenants' market as rental growth slows and shopping centre manager optimism fades: Jones Lang LaSalle
- Tom Waterhouse does not understand the responsibility of being the face of a brand: John Symond
- ISPT looking to sell majority of Spencer Street site formerly occupied by The Age newspaper
- Dwelling prices trending up in major capital cities but at uneven growth rates: RBA chart pack
- Prices fall and vacancies rise in “vulnerable” Gladstone market: Herron Todd White
- First-home owner grants: a state-by-state guide
- With existing homes ineligible for state grants, NSW suffers 57% annual drop in first-home buyers: REIA
- First-home owner grants: a state-by-state guide
- No shortcuts to investment success: Mark Bouris
- With existing homes ineligible for state grants, NSW suffers 57% annual drop in first-home buyers: REIA
- In profile: Colliers International Queensland director of retail investment services Stephen Kidd
- Federation Centres sells half stakes in six regional malls to Challenger for $602 million
- Upgraders and investors drive rise in mortgage approvals: RBA chart pack
- ACT and NSW lead “slight” improvement in housing affordability in March quarter but FHBs stay away: REIA report
- RBA retains easing bias and will act on it with August cash rate cut: economists
- Burgers, fries and tax depreciation benefits drive sale of McDonald’s premises
- DLA Piper signs 6,000 square metre Sydney CBD lease amid surge in law firm activity
- Investor pays record $3.2 million for Brighton Street bakery premises on 2.6% yield
- Melbourne bayside warehouses below $1 million are in demand
- RBA needs to cut cash rate to 1.25% as GFC still lingers: Steve Keen
- RBA leaves cash rate on hold at 2.75%
- No cut in the cash rate today amid cloudy outlook: shadow RBA board
- Falling Australian dollar could discourage Asian apartment developers: MacroPlan Dimasi
- ACT lifts first-home owner grant to $12,500 but for new homes only from September 1
- Grocon’s six-star Pixel building sells to Melbourne-based private investor for $6 million
- More hype than reality: Significant investor visa “queue jumpers” yet to be significant
- April and May composite data points to "modest" slowdown in housing market: Westpac’s Matthew Hassan
- Property the “hottest investment class” for the next five years: Mark Bouris
- Housing market still in “very good shape” despite “sizeable” May fall: Christopher Joye
- Perth bucks 1.2% "broad-based" property market decline in May: RP Data-Rismark
- Cash rate likely to remain on hold in June: cheapest Big Four banks fixed and variable offerings
- "Medium-term risk" of Australia reaching housing “bubble territory”: David Bassanese
- Plenary Group attracts budding chefs to shipping container food hall concept at Melbourne's South Wharf
- New breed of Gen Y white collar renters seeking out 18 inner city apartment hotspots: Urbis
May 2013
- AMP’s Shane Oliver the lone economist out of 25 tipping the RBA to cut rates next week: Bloomberg
- Housing construction recovery “well entrenched” in WA and NSW: Westpac’s Matthew Hassan
- Ten new suburbs join Sydney’s "meat and potatoes” million dollar housing club: APM
- RBA to leave cash rate on hold next week as “great rebalancing” of Australian economy makes progress: HSBC's Paul Bloxham
- West Melbourne fresh produce traders win lease signing injunction until June 18
- Stafford blooms but four out of five Sam Saggers Brisbane hotspots yet to show promise
- Australia’s housing market sixth most overvalued but prices falling: OECD
- Dwelling approvals rise by a stronger than anticipated 9.1% in April: ABS
- Provident Capital investors receive further distributions
- Satterley eyeing up Australand WA and Victoria residential assets: StreetTalk
- Undercurrent of confidence in Melbourne new housing and apartment markets
- Centuria doubles money with Darwin office building sale
- Authentic Neapolitan pizza comes to Drapac's six-star green building on Carlton's Victoria Street
- US-based global fund buys Laing O'Rourke Fortitude Valley office tower for $124.6 million
- Selling shopping centres isn’t easy: Westfield’s Frank Lowy
- Mining investment has peaked in WA, but still rising in Queensland: ANZ
- Perth and Brisbane office vacancy rates forecast to double over next three years as mining boom demand fades: Morgan Stanley
- Value of construction work done falls by unexpected 2% in March quarter led by engineering slump: ABS
- Victoria, WA and NSW lead April new home sales rise to highest level since December: HIA
- Housing market sentiment improving but still favouring buyers
- Cash rates to remain on hold until November: JP Morgan’s Stephen Walters
- In profile: Little Projects managing director Michael Fox
- Property waves dump Noosa surf spot Peregian Beach as unit hotspots fail to fire
- Melbourne curry house and upstairs studio apartment sells for $1.03 million
- Melbourne median house price at $556,500 as April sees slight decrease in home values: Residex
- IHG plans up to 40 Holiday Inn Expresses in Australia as it targets time-poor tech-savvy travellers
- Sydney CBD sublease space hits 74,000 square metres as finance firms downsize: CBRE
- Macquarie mortgage delinquencies surge to 4% of securitised loan book: Moody's
- Non-banks have highest mortgage arrears: Moody's
- Citibank cuts five-year fixed-rate home loan to 5.35%
- Australand running out of options as Blackstone joins GPT at the exit gates
- Coalition’s paid parental leave tax to push up mortgage rates: Wayne Swan
- Small rise in home mortgage arrears rate in March blamed on Christmas holiday spending
- Tasmania and South Australia to axe first-home owner grants from June 30 2014: key dates to diarise
- Tasmania and South Australia to axe first-home owner grants from June 30 2014: key dates to diarise
- Cheapest fixed and variable offerings: mortgage brokers record spike in fixed-rate home loan enquiries
- Gladstone defies doomsayers with 24% gain in annual median house prices with Moranbah also strong
- GPT pulls out of Australand bid
- RAMS cuts three-year fixed-rates to 4.99%
- Perth Century 21 branch the latest to be fined $8,000 for late bond lodgements
- ASIC appeals court decision on Macquarie Bank’s $82.5 million Storm Financial payout on grounds of fairness
- Chance of a sharp fall in house prices “remote” Stephen Koukoulas
- Autumn blues as capital city dwelling values dip again in May: RP Data
- All economists – bar Westpac’s Bill Evans and AMP’s Shane Oliver - favour RBA cash rate hold in June: Bloomberg survey
- 'Arty' sold-out Austin apartment project to rise to South Brisbane's highest
- Wollongong estate agents to appeal jail sentence over $1.4 million misappropriation of client funds
- Dubai conviction “a life sentence” for property developer Matthew Joyce: wife
- Floating of Fairfax’s Domain division gathers momentum but with wide-ranging market capitalisation expectations
- Geelong economy “strong enough” to absorb Ford plant closure: Terry Ryder
- Investor demand could spur 10% gain in mid-market Sydney property prices in 2013: APM’s Dr Andrew Wilson
- Landlord numbers have doubled since negative gearing reintroduced in 1987
- Proportion of landlords making rental losses peaked in 2008: Macrobusiness
- US property fund Domus set for ASX listing as it seeks to tap into growing demand for rental property in Texas and New Mexico
- Former City of Melbourne valuer Ray Berryman appointed to Fitzroys board
- Australian dollar less of a factor in commercial property investment: Jones Lang LaSalle chart
- First Ansett collapse, now Ford plant closure threatens Broadmeadows property market
- Consumer confidence, funding and lack of development sites the biggest challenges for commercial property businesses: NAB index
- Bunbury property management firm fined $10,000 for late bond lodgement
- Westfield’s Frank Lowy rises above Ivan Glasenberg as second richest Australian with Meriton’s Harry Triguboff up to sixth richest on 2013 BRW Rich list
- Westfield in negotiations to sell seven US malls to Barry Sternlicht’s Starwood Capital: Reuters
- Insolvency firm leases ground floor in Sydney’s History House on Macquarie Street
- Perth and Melbourne office markets have the brightest prospects as commercial property sentiment lifts: NAB Index
- Budget woes sees consumer sentiment fall to lowest level since August 2012, but housing sentiment lifts: Westpac index
- Castlereagh Street office suite listed for $695,000 as SMSF investors return to Sydney strata office
- Subdued home loan growth a worry for RBA with 2% cash rate still on the cards: Westpac’s Bill Evans
- In profile: Colliers International's director of special projects Darrell Irwin
- Brisbane CBD retail vacancy rate tightens as global brands hit Queen Street Mall: Chart of the week
- Stockland raises $400 million from institutional investors to grow malls business
- No plans for Labor or Coalition governments to abolish negative gearing
- Scope for more rate cuts as RBA notes conditions “strengthening in housing market”: May minutes
- Shares and listed property help put super funds on track for best result in 16 years: Chant West
- Low interest rates to spur strong residential building recovery over next three years: MBA
- Money Choice puts public lock on Twitter account as PIPA suspends corporate membership pending an investigation
- Westpoint founder Norm Carey to sue ASIC after charges dropped
- Dubai court hands 10 year jail terms to property developers Matthew Joyce and Angus Reed over 2007 land deal
- Next two years a good time to be in property with “steady” house price growth expected: John Symond
- “How was your weekend?” asks Money Choice founder Matthew George: Tweet of the day
- Uneven housing market recovery to slow down from 5% rise in 2013 to 3.5% in 2014 with Perth and Sydney strongest: Westpac's Matthew Hassan
- Melbourne car park sells to Malaysian investor on record 6.4% yield
- GPT confirms sale of half stake in Erina Fair shopping centre to Asian interests for $397.1 million
- Brisbane house prices fall 1% in March quarter as first-home buyer participation dwindles to 10% of market: REIQ
- Westpac ups the ante in mortgage wars with one-year fixed-rate cut to 4.79%
- John Gandel, Stan Perron and Sir John Pidgeon join 2012 inductee Westfield’s Frank Lowy in Property Council’s hall of fame
- Investor snaps up Rogues Jeanery shop premises on St Kilda's Acland Street on 5% yield
- Australia moves up to fourth most overvalued housing market but bubble risk subsides: The Economist
- All spin no sale: rotating Canberra home fails to sell at auction
- Sydney vacancy rate tightens to 1.7% in April: REINSW
- Greater Building Society cuts one-year fixed-rate home loan to 4.74%
- Scott Pape is wrong on negative gearing: Margaret Lomas
- Slater and Gordon cut conveyancing fees to Victorian FHBs facing grant deadline
- Slater and Gordon cut conveyancing fees to Victorian FHBs facing grant deadline
- Westfield co-CEOs under fire over $18 million executive pay packets
- Bunnings Warragul store snapped up by Brisbane investor for $4.6 million as Coles versus Woolies DIY battle pushes up rents
- WA government warns consumers about east coast “property investment spruikers"
- Rental crisis easing as national residential vacancy rate rises to 2%: SQM
- RAMS cuts two-year fixed-rates to 4.99% and waives investment home loan fees as investor demand rises
- Quest lists Sydney Olympic Park serviced apartments as appetite for Australian hotels rises
- South Korean pension fund set to acquire GPT's half of Erina Fair mall for $400 million
- Heritage Melbourne office property and former CBD horse stables sells to local developer for $8.5 million
- Property investors face greater ATO scrutiny following $78 million data-matching budget handout
- Government didn’t have the “ticker” to abolish negative gearing in budget: Scott Pape
- Property investment SMSF spruiker Matthew George, director of Money Choice, banned by ASIC for multiple compliance failures
- Tea importer pays $290,000 for office and warehouse in Melbourne's sought after south-east
- Federal budget a hit and miss for commercial property sector: Cushman & Wakefield
- GPT set to resume takeover talks with Australand but block share trade still possible: Street Talk
- McDonald's Australia beats private investors to buy its own Preston fast-food premises
- Commonwealth Bank reports $1.9 billion quarterly profit but with higher Bankwest home loan arrears rates
- Realestate.com.au publisher REA Group reports 20% rise in site visits and nine-month earnings up 30%
- Harry Triguboff’s heaving wheelbarrow: a timeline of Meriton’s growing $300m Sydney apartment site inventory
- Perth Sunday trading delivers boost to Federation Centres WA malls
- The $1.85 million Richmond warehouse ‘residence’ at centre of eviction dispute had “longstanding ban” on dwelling use
- In profile: ID_Land director Jeff Garvey
- Office-to-retail conversion a growing CBD trend as ground floor space dries up: Colliers International
- Sydney CBD remains the capital for big business headquarters: Chart of the week
- Commercial mortgage commitments up 1.5% in March: ABS
- Westfield's Australian tenants score 5% discount on new leasing deals amid "subdued" retail conditions: March quarter update
- Macarthur Credit Union beats RBA with 26 bps rate cut: RateCity guide of 39 lender rate cuts
- Marilyn New exits Perth hotel scene with Esplanade River Suites sale to Chinese hotel group Narada
- Lack of first-home buyer recovery halting stronger housing market rebound: Matthew Hassan
- Lack of first-home buyer recovery halting stronger housing market rebound: Matthew Hassan
- It's really not back to the 1960s for borrowers despite a 2.75% cash rate
- Mortgages approvals for new homes up a “spectacular” 21% in March: Westpac
- Property Council warns against further tinkering with offshore investment rules
- Aussie reduces two and three-year fixed rates below 5% with new variable offering in the mix
- Mortgage lending surges up 5.2% in March led by NSW and Victoria: ABS
- Arena REIT lists $228 million childcare centre portfolio with $1.05 share price
- Aussie Home Loans appoints Bankwest executive Ian Corfield as new CEO
- LJ Hooker looks to sell more property to Chinese buyers with three-year marketing deal with international property listings portal Juwai.com
- Residential recovery underway but more pain for Stockland as $49 million write-down revealed
- Mirvac to head to big city suburbs and CBDs for prime retail investments amid “difficult” conditions
- Australia Post’s 999-year lease in North Melbourne revealed by Melbourne City Council
- FHB demand for new homes rising in NSW: RBA
- FHB demand for new homes rising in NSW: RBA
- Bendigo Bank cuts variable home loan rates by 25 basis points
- CUA passes on full rate cut to borrowers with 5.6% standard variable offering
- Home loan rates guide: What's now on offer and what you should be considering after the historic RBA cash rate cut
- RBA notes signs of "increased appetite" for mortgages in improving housing market
- Mirvac kicks off new strategic focus with $584 million CBD office portfolio acquisition
- ANZ beats the RBA and all rival lenders bar one with 27 basis points rate cut
- Mermaid Beach still poorly performing, with Mandurah and Ultimo bouncing back from their GFC lows
- John McGrath expands northern NSW coastal presence with Byron Bay office
- Chinese online searches for Australian property up 61% as Macquarie targets significant investor visa applicants
- ME Bank passes on full rate cut but with late May 28 start date
- Greater Building Society passes on 30 basis point rate cut to borrowers
- Paying too much for residential land among four lessons learned: Mirvac boss Susan Lloyd-Hurwitz
- NAB grows mortgage market share as interim profits rise to $2.9 billion
- House prices could rise up to 7% in 2014: APM’s Andrew Wilson
- Housing market confidence rises to highest since July 2010: CBA/MFAA index
- RBA paints mixed picture of local and global conditions, but with house prices and mortgage lending trending up
- NAB branch auction brings the crowds to Chapel Street and sells under the hammer for $12.825 million
- Bid trail for Australand goes cold as no fresh GPT offer emerges
- Loans.com.au offers 4.75% limited-time variable rate offer after passing on full rate cut
- RAMS passes on full rate cut to borrowers
- Aussie passes on full rate cut to borrowers
- GPT settles Slater & Gordon class action dispute with $75m pay out to investors
- Commercial property and shares offer better returns than residential property yields: AMP’s Shane Oliver
- Westpac tips June rate cut and cash rate to fall to 2% by March 2014
- Cash rate to fall to 2.5% as housing and other non-mining sectors fail to pick-up “quickly enough”: Shane Oliver
- Scope for more rate cuts says Westpac’s Bill Evans, the first to tip a 2.75% cash rate
- Warehouse appeal for investors as Bentleigh East showroom sells on 6% yield
- Architects Hassell relocate from The Rocks to historic Walsh Bay pier
- Mystery financial institution embarks on east coast streetfront retail expansion
- Westpac passes on full rate cut to offer 6.26% standard variable rate, but only from May 20
- Commmonwealth Bank passes on full rate cut to offer 6.15% standard variable rate
- UBank to offer 4.87% refinancing home loan rate from May 13
- In profile: Knight Frank's Queensland project marketing manager Mathew Cassidy
- Major banks have "no excuses" but to pass on rate cut in full: Mozo
- NAB passes on full rate cut to offer 6.13% standard variable rate
- Caton, Gibbs and the Kouk - head the eight economists who got it right as the RBA cuts the May cash rate
- RBA cuts the cash rate to 53-year-low of 2.75%
- Established house prices stagnate in March quarter, but with good gains in Perth and Darwin: ABS
- Federation Centres buys Centro Gympie for $64 million
- Cash rate should remain on hold for now says shadow RBA board
- Hold your fire, but here's the best fixed and variable big bank offerings from the Big Four banks and their subsidiaries
- Sales suspended on Canberra Aalto apartment project following LMIM collapse
- Food better than fashion as retail sales fall by an unexpected 0.4% in March: ABS
- Leighton sells three towers within Kings Square Perth development to Dexus for $434.8 million
- ‘Gazumping’ fears arise in Sydney: 13 tips to protect unlucky buyers
- May RBA cash rate decision “on a knife edge” and “live”: economic writers
- “Inconsistent” and “undermined” NSW Office of Valuer-General must go says damning parliamentary report
- No major pain for Westpac if house prices were to lose a quarter of their value
- A-REIT returns in April rise to sixth best in 21 years: Goldman Sachs
- Big banks under pressure to cut rates without RBA prompting as no cash rate cut tipped for next week
- Branchless Macquarie grows its mortgage book by 9% through brokers
- A quarter of new Westpac mortgages fixed as borrowers stump up 30% deposits: anatomy of its $321 billion home loan book
- Westpac earnings rise 10% but mortgage lending slows as borrowers pay off loans faster
- Thinking of buying in Harlem? Dixon Advisory provides Australian investors with tourist-style walking tour guide
- A close call as housing market pauses, but RBA likely to hold cash rate next week: HSBC’s Paul Bloxham
- Gold Coast property recovery tipped from 2015 as house prices bounce back, but unit prices slip to lowest in a decade: Prodap Report
- Demand for investor loans rises to highest level since GFC: RateCity.com.au
- Victorian government turns to private developers to fill Federation Square East “black hole”
- Winter may be a better time than spring to sell your property: survey
- Longer term view on building approvals more encouraging: HIA
- Dwelling approvals "lose momentum" with surprise fall of 5.5% in March led by NSW and Victoria: ABS
- Stephen Koukoulas tips rate cut next week and another to come
- AFG achieves highest ever monthly mortgage sales of $3.2 billion in April
- Centuria targets significant investor visa aspirants with Sydney office property syndicate investment opportunities
- End of mining boom will leave Australian economy “with no clothes”: Frank Gelber
- Fixed-rate mortgage demand rises to highest level in five years led by NSW home buyers: Mortgage Choice
- Coles vs Woolies DIY battle sees Dahlsens sell gold rush era hardware site in Ballarat
- Japanese retailer Daiso to convert Elizabeth Street office space into shop after recent Brisbane opening
- Six Williamstown shops listed on ‘Burke’s Corner’ and may appeal to SMSF investors
- Landlords tax deductions rise to $38.6 billion or $23,000 per tax return: ATO figures
- Yellow Brick Road mortgage book hits $1.5 billion ahead of Celebrity Apprentice marketing blitz
- Perth leads small 0.5% “stumble” in property values in April: RP Data
April 2013
- FHOG changes could force Ballarat FHBs into outer suburbs: Trevor Booth
- In profile: Jones Lang LaSalle's Sydney office leasing specialist Tim O'Connor
- Melbourne has most affordable metro office market: Chart of the week
- FHOG changes could force Ballarat FHBs into outer suburbs: Trevor Booth
- No out of cycle rate cuts likely from ANZ as profits surge amid very healthy mortgage book
- Mortgage lending growth remains subdued in March: RBA
- Two-thirds of property investments negatively geared: ATO figures
- SMSF tax return numbers rise 4.8% in 2010-11 to 391,000: ATO figures
- SMSF tax return numbers rise 4.8% in 2010-11 to 391,000: ATO figures
- Highpoint Shopping Centre fully-leased but retail sales growth “modest”: GPT
- With specialty sales at $15,660 per square metre, Westfield Sydney and its luxury brand tenants set global performance benchmark
- Victorian FHB property choices unlikely to be dictated just by government incentives
- Nathan Tinkler hints trackside that remainder of Patinack Farm empire will soon be sold
- Two Mercure Hotels in regional Victoria listed for $11 million receivership sale
- Melbourne office vacancy rate to hit 10% by end of 2013 with BIS Shrapnel warning of “market panic”
- Cheapest five-year fixed-rate offerings as RP Data reports mortgage activity continuing to trend up
- John McGrath urges estate agents to be straight talking as many agents move somewhere between telling white lies, half truths or sugar-coating the truth
- Victorian FHB property choices unlikely to be dictated just by government incentives
- Julia Gillard compares budget deficit to very small mortgage while Deloitte comes up with 17 “really ugly” tips to fill the $12 billion black hole
- Hoppers Crossing and Tarneit leads Victorian top 10 FHB grant application locations
- Hoppers Crossing and Tarneit leads Victorian top 10 FHB grant application locations
- Citibank cuts two-year fixed home loan to 4.89%
- The 12 lowest discounted rates available for home borrowers as RBA likely to hold firm in May
- Victorian government to end $7,000 FHOG: the state-by-state deadlines you need to know
- Victorian government to end $7,000 FHOG: the state-by-state deadlines you need to know
- Bluestone Adelaide commercial villa sold for $1.1 million
- Chinese developer Hengyi commits to Australia with five-year lease in refurbished London & Lancashire Building on Collins Street
- Argument for June RBA rate cut looks “pretty attractive” but with housing market overheating risk: AFR's Alan Mitchell
- Majority of economists still say no rate cut on May 7
- Gold Coast's LMIM mortgage fund collapse reaches Malta as regulator launches probe
- Short term renting of apartments will degrade strata values and push up fees: Owners Corporation Network
- None issued yet, but significant visa applications dominated by Chinese investors eyeing NSW and Victoria
- Soccer star Daniel McBreen shoots for AFG mortgage success after grand final glory
- Unit hotspots less hit and more miss: Broome, Newcastle and Gladstone among markets that flopped in 2012
- Still plenty to tempt awol first-home buyers as REINSW campaigns for reinstatement of $7,000 grant in state budget
- Still plenty to tempt awol first-home buyers as REINSW campaigns for reinstatement of $7,000 grant in state budget
- Inflation up lower than expected 0.4% in March quarter with rise in new dwelling prices noted
- Big Banks, you’re fired: Mark Bouris ties Celebrity Apprentice launch with YBR mortgage discount offer
- SMSF property spruikers competing with charity muggers on Melbourne street corners
- Retail building approvals on the rise led by NSW: Chart of the week
- Toga Group buys Kurt Braune’s Leisure Inn in Hobart on 9% yield
- In profile: Colliers International Sydney's office leasing executive Dan Walker
- SMSF property spruikers competing with charity muggers on Melbourne street corners
- Less investor demand likely for property due to lower capital gains outlook: RBA
- Melbourne leads regions where property investors can double their money in a decade: RP Data
- “Some room” for house prices to increase as low interest rates support “consumer revival”: HSBC’s Paul Bloxham
- Melbourne sandbelt SMSF property spruikers face ASIC probe over seminar advertising
- Melbourne sandbelt SMSF property spruikers face ASIC probe over seminar advertising
- Hit and miss hotspots: Box Hill flames out while Highgate, Karratha, Newman and other WA mining locations are on fire
- Greenhills Beach helps Australand report “solid” residential sales activity in 2013 first quarter
- Redcape completes executive team with John Russell appointed chief executive
- Gold Coast agency allegedly underpaid three staff $53,000: Fair Work Ombudsman
- From Quick Direct’s 4.79%: the lowest fixed and variable home loan offerings
- Possibly one more rate cut in 2013 but lack of consensus the overriding theme: Bloomberg survey
- NAB cuts five-year fixed-rate home loan to 20-year low of 5.55%
- Cromwell raises $66 million to build ATO building in Box Hill
- Offshore apartment developers to take 58% of Melbourne market by 2015: Chart of the week
- In profile: LJ Hooker Commercial’s Sydney industrial specialist Marcel Elias
- Mortgage market picking up led by NSW: RP Data monitor
- Rental growth to keep pace with house price growth over next two years led by WA: NAB survey
- SMSF satisfaction rates soar above disgruntled retail and industry fund members: Roy Morgan
- SMSF satisfaction rates soar above disgruntled retail and industry fund members: Roy Morgan
- Bob Jane’s former wife Laree Jane sells Wodonga bank branch investment at a loss
- Two-thirds of consumers see higher house prices in a year's time: Westpac
- Developer Rory O’Brien wins right to battle Bankwest-Commonwealth Bank over Whisper Bay receivership
- Rising house prices encourage younger households to spend: RBA paper
- Strong outlook for Sydney hotels as buyers line up for Sydney Four Seasons Hotel
- Growing sense of optimism buoys Melbourne property market: APM
- Battle between Masters and Bunnings heats up for home improvement market as Masters sales rocket 37%
- RBA likely to resume rate cuts sometime in 2013 after unemployment rise: Macquarie’s Brian Redican
- Unemployment rate rises 0.2% in March to 5.6%, highest since 2009
- House prices to rise 3.6% over next two years as sentiment rebounds broadly: NAB index
- Bank tenants prove popular as Commonwealth Bank in Swan Hill fetch $1.41 million at auction
- Melbourne family buys Sale Bunnings premises owned by Dahlsen family on 7.5% yield
- Effects of lower interest rates clearly evident in housing market: Christopher Kent
- Perth estate agency Acton Cottesloe fined $10,000 for late bond lodgement
- Flagship KFC Mentone premises bought by Asian investor for $3.505 million
- Mortgage arrears rates rise slightly in final quarter of 2012: Fitch
- Midas premises on Whitehorse Road in Balwyn sells for $2.85 million
- ANZ bank premises in Korumburra sell for $462,000
- In profile: Colliers International Parramatta leasing specialist Ben Lalic
- New Zealand's house prices outperform Australia's but face “significant” correction risk: RBNZ deputy governor
- Angry investors line up to sue financial planners who spruiked LMIM mortgage funds
- Lend Lease lists Docklands Safeway supermarket premises seeking $14 million-plus
- UK menswear designer Peter Werth opens pop-up shop in Howey Place
- Expelled mortgage brokers have no claim to membership fee refund: MFAA CEO
- Federation Centres resurrection complete with Goldman Sachs buy recommendation
- Australian hotel returns fall but still top regional property performer: Chart of the week
- LM Investment Management financial services licence suspended by ASIC for two years
- Belgian high-rise builder Besix to acquire Kevin Seymour’s 15% Watpac holding
- Richardson & Wrench adds mortgage broking referral service to real estate offering
- More than one in four fixing their home loan as demand rises to five year high: Mortgage Choice
- Pensioners not just property-laden SMSFs to be hit by super changes: financial planner
- Pensioners not just property-laden SMSFs to be hit by super changes: financial planner
- Construction sector contracts in March as conditions remain “fragile”: AIG/HIA index
- Signs of life but no great expectations for Adelaide property market
- Citibank cuts two-year fixed-rate home loan to 4.99%
- Funds could flow out of super and into property following government changes: super bosses
- Funds could flow out of super and into property following government changes: super bosses
- Residential listings rise 3.8% in March without overall pre-Easter volume uplift: SQM
- Construction sentiment improving but not yet activity: Master Builders survey
- ANZ says rate cuts starting to have a positive impact: a guide to lowest standard and variable mortgage rates
- No rate cut in May say economists: Bloomberg
- Lend Lease consortium to build Bendigo Hospital
- Mirvac finance director Greg Dyer resigns
- Macquarie Bank lining up to take ING Direct's fifth banking pillar crown
- Building approvals up 3.1% in February a "material improvement": HIA
- Retail sales growth best since 2001 unless you’re a butcher or baker: CommSec
- Australian housing market “heating up” with FHBs and investors activity to pick-up: APM
- Bank of Queensland to refund 6,000 customers after mortgage offset error
- 'Big Al' Constantinidis rural properties listed again for receivership sale
- Conditions remain "difficult" in commercial property sector: RBA
- Paul Mathis FireChief premises in Hawthorn East sell for $4.4 million
- Gold Coast properties still taking nearly six months to sell: APM
- AMP raises $200 million to develop Sydney's second biggest shopping mall in North Ryde
- Glenn Stevens re-appointed RBA governor until 2016
- Lion comes full circle as it relocates offices to Perth's Old Swan Brewery
- New home sales "stumble" in February led by 13.7% drop in Victoria: HIA
- S&P cuts credit rating of Adelaide debenture issuer Angas Securities
- Westfield top 10 malls: Westfield Sydney shines but Bondi Junction disappoints
- Redcape nets $10 million from sale of portfolio of Queensland pubs and liquor stores
- Melbourne estate agent suspended following trust account act breaches
- Still plenty of full office floors available for lease in Melbourne CBD: Chart of the week
- New Centuria listed property trust to take advantage of improving A-REIT conditions: CEO John McBain
- Restored Brisbane beauty in Chelmer tops RP Data top ten sales
- In profile: CBRE retail investments specialist Neil Proudlove
- "Scope" for further rate cuts if needed: RBA
- A record one in three borrowers fixed their home loan in March: AFG
- RBA leaves cash rate unchanged at 3% in April
- Perth unit values up 5.3% in a month: RP Data
- Irregularities suspected in LMIM's Maddison Estate mortgage fund: reports
- Social media site Housenet launches dedicated micro networks for apartment blocks
- Major banks favour June rate cut: guide to lowest fixed and variable mortgage rates
- "Prudent" households have reduced their debt appetite: RBA
March 2013
- One in five SMSF holders have a mortgage through their fund: Genworth
- One in five SMSF holders have a mortgage through their fund: Genworth
- Housing market helping to make people wealthier again: RBA
- AMP Capital ups investment stake in Melbourne and Launceston Airports to 45.3%
- Surfers Paradise matches Sydney and Melbourne with 70% auction clearance rate
- Westfield retail trust reports 2% rise in earnings and growth of international brands
- Australia to continue as commercial property investment hotspot in 2013: Jones Lang LaSalle
- FHB grant changes drive home buyer confidence to lowest level since 2008: Genworth
- FHB grant changes drive home buyer confidence to lowest level since 2008: Genworth
- Perth leads modest house value gains in February: Residex
- Abbotsford riverfront project seeks community connection
- Victoria and NSW estate agents warned about unsolicited rent roll emails
- Asian private equity firm emerges as possible Australand buyer: reports
- Airspace height problems for Australia 108 skyscraper can be resolved: Benni Aroni
- Significant house price swings unlikely: HIA
- In profile: Colliers International’s industrial specialist Greg O’Meara
- Private investors return to retail property market as trusts sell out: Chart of the week
- Asian investor pays $1.45m for retail premises in Fender Katsalidis-designed Hero building on Little Collins Street
- Westfield sells half interest in six Florida malls for US$1.28 billion
- MFAA cancels memberships of 1,100 mortgage brokers
- Taxpayers face ATO “data-matching” crackdown over residential and commercial property sales
- Jamie Durie's garden designs wilt as Gold Coast mortgage fund manager LM Investment Management placed in voluntary administration
- Australia's "small" banking sector protects it from risk of bubble corrections: RBA
- All economists agree on no April cash rate cut: Bloomberg
- Better funding environment for major banks than regionals: RBA
- Solomon Lew and Mark McInnes say landlords must cut rents or more stores will close
- Regional housing affordability at its best since early 2000s: HIA
- ACCC gives green light to Commonwealth Bank to buy all of John Symond's Aussie Home Loans business
- Regional housing affordability at its best since early 2000s: HIA
- Bettina Liano slams “exorbitant” Melbourne rents as Little Collins shop sits empty
- Cromwell to sell assets as commercial property bubble builds: Paul Weightman
- Melbourne estate agents PhilipWebb ditch “Jurassic” newspaper advertising
- Jellis Craig and Bennison Mackinnon merge to form boutique Melbourne agency
- David Jones considers development of flagship Sydney and Melbourne stores
- CUA cuts three-year fixed rate to 5.1% and sticks boot into big banks
- Chadstone, the nation's biggest shopping mall, records 5% retail sales growth
- Former Ken Lacey Tweed Heads brothel premises with pole dancing space listed for April auction
- In profile: Jones Lang LaSalle’s head of NSW sales and investments John Macree
- David can slay Goliath with retail lease discounts of 40% possible
- RBA expects further “moderate” growth in new dwelling construction: March minutes
- Westpac lifts fixed rates above 5% with more lenders set to follow
- Cheaper securitisation to lower mortgage lending costs for small banks and non-banks: RBA
- Leighton wins Hong Kong transport infrastructure project
- Resi taps into property appetite of SMSF investors with financial advice partnership
- Housing, mortgage market and consumer confidence all responding to rate cuts: RBA's Philip Lowe
- Queensland $15,000 first-home buyer construction grant gets new name after less than “great start”
- Investor interest rising as sub-$300,000 Newcastle inner-city units offer 5% to 7% yield potential: PRDnationwide
- Queensland $15,000 first-home buyer construction grant gets new name after less than “great start”
- Docklands restaurant Renzo's Bar listed with $3 million hopes
- Houses selling a week faster in Sydney and Melbourne: RP Data
- John Symond says it’s the "perfect time" to invest with Bella Vista offering the top gross rental yield in Sydney
- Current housing upswing the weakest since 1987: ANZ
- Smaller developers struggling to get funding as banks require higher pre-sales: RBA
- Bank home loan discounts: who's making the biggest offers
- Consider buying off-the-plan using your self-managed super fund
- Borrowers better off with two-year fixed-rate even if cash rate falls to 2.5%: RateCity
- Mosman house above Chinaman’s Beach tops RP Data top 10 sales
- Investor loans to build new homes up 38% in January: ABS
- We expect the cash rate to be maintained at 3% throughout 2013: Commonwealth Bank
- Australian housing not perceived as being in a bubble: US real estate industry boss
- US Masters Residential Fund joins S&P All Ordinaries
- Shopping centre leasing enquiries rising as overall outlook brightens: Jones Lang LaSalle survey
- Sydney rental market tightens to 1.9% vacancy rate with warning of "dire" economic consequences
- Foreign investor interest in Australian commercial property at pre-GFC highs: CBRE
- Consumer confidence continues to rise with home-buyer confidence also high: Westpac index
- First signs of residential property market recovery: REIA president Peter Bushby
- Former Mirvac boss Nick Collishaw to establish listed property funds business at Centuria
- Hawthorn East premises of Paul Mathis’ FireChief restaurant listed for March auction
- Bulky goods revival continues as Harvey Norman Maroochydore centre now 91% leased
- Construction industry to contract 4% over next three months and no improvement long-term: BCI
- Pilbara apartment project helps drive earnings and profits for WA developer Finbar
- Death in alleged Epping marijuana rental management property scheme
- Home lending down 1.5% in January with first-home buyer activity still at near nine-year lows: ABS
- Bunnings acquires Betty Klimenko family-owned Supa Centa at Tuggerah
- Federal government to review NRAS scheme over incentives trading
- Bulky goods centres offer highest retail property yields: Chart of the week
- In profile: Knight Frank’s Sydney city commercial specialist John Bowie Wilson
- No rate cut in April say economists: Bloomberg survey
- Mortgage activity rises to highest point since August 2009: RP Data
- Take into consideration rising and falling values: tips for buying off-the-plan
- North Queensland mining towns boosted by investment in Galilee Basin railway line
- Barry Plant Epping estate agents charged over rental property marijuana crops
- Anxious Queenslanders fix their home loans, while Victorians don't: guide to cheapest variable and fixed rates
- Sydney property listings down 13.3% over past year indicating improving housing market: SQM Research
- ANZ leaves standard variable rate unchanged at 6.4% following independent review
- Housing market sentiment rising with 80% of consumers saying now is a good time to buy: RP Data
- Perth CBD office vacancy rate could tighten to below 4% by end of 2013: Colliers International
- Asian governments in transition impact property investment appetite
- Lygon Street vacant corner shop passed in at auction
- Former GPT boss to give evidence in $100 million investor class action
- Sydney house prices up 6.1% over 2012 but little growth in the western suburbs: REINSW
- Chinese govt real estate clampdown good for Sydney prestige markets: Angus Raine
- One in four looking to split their home loan between fixed and variable: Loan Market
- Government to expand NRAS scheme with aim of 50,000 homes by 2015
- Borrowers should not be paying more than 6% on their home loan, RBA charts suggest
- Big banks profits in a class of their own: RBA
- Vacant Lygon Street shop goes to auction with $2 million plus hopes
- First-home buyer numbers fall to near eight year low despite improving housing affordability: REIA
- First-home buyer numbers fall to near eight year low despite improving housing affordability: REIA
- Receivers put Surfers Rowers Hotel on Gold Coast up for sale
- No rate cut in April as HSBC pencils in rate hike towards the end of the year
- Meat & Wine Co takes Etch space in Sydney's InterContinental Hotel
- In profile: Colliers International Perth industrial specialist Wayne Chorley
- Sydney suburban office vacancy rates tightening: Chart of the week
- Goodman confirms sale of Mascot site to Harry Triguboff's Meriton group
- Interim payment likely for Mark Letten property scheme investors: KPMG receivers
- Non-bank lender State Custodians cuts variable rates by 25 basis points to 4.99%
- AFG records strongest February mortgage sales on record but FHBs stay away
- RBA leaves cash rate on hold at 3%
- New home building activity starting to shift from Melbourne to Sydney: ABS figures
- Sydney fringe epicentre of chronic undersupply of residential land: UDIA
- Harry Triguboff celebrates 80th birthday with proposed $100 million inner Sydney site acquisition ..... and calls for more rate cuts
- Major banks can and should cut variable rates independently of RBA: Bernie Fraser
- Take rental guarantees with a grain of salt: Tips for buying off the plan
- Mammoth seeks new Melbourne apartment opportunities following success with first residential tower
- The cheapest home loan rates on offer starting at 4.79% as just two economists tip March rate cut in Bloomberg survey
- State-by-state incentives for FHBs buying off the plan
February 2013
- The fix is on for bank mortgage rates: should you take the deal?
- In profile: Colliers International Canberra director Michael Heather
- Westpac’s Bill Evans on his own as ANZ, Commonwealth Bank and NAB tip no rate cut in March or April: Bloomberg
- WA’s consumer protection takes legal against rent-to-buy property scheme after tenant sells portable swimming pool
- CUA cuts three-year fixed rate to 5.25%
- RBA ready to cut cash rate again if needed but for now it is "prudent to sit still": Glenn Stevens
- Gold Coast new apartment sales rise 14% in December quarter as project numbers decline
- Sydney, Brisbane and Perth among top 10 most expensive prime warehouse rental markets: CBRE
- Perth apartments likely to be the standout performers for 2013: WBP
- Chinese real estate listings portal Juwai.com expands European property coverage
- State governments need to look at first-home buyer handouts: Mortgage Choice
- State governments need to look at first-home buyer handouts: Mortgage Choice
- SMSF adviser guilty of deceptive investment advice to clients
- Three small lenders cut variable rates without RBA prompt: RateCity
- Mortgage Choice interim profits up 20% and optimistic about housing market for first time in years
- Perth to be the top office performer in 2013 but Sydney to step up from 2014: Frank Gelber
- Mumbai hits Melbourne for six on office rents: Cushman & Wakefield
- Highpoint scheduled March opening for Zara and Topshop double-act
- Bank of Melbourne cuts fixed rates with two-year offering reduced to 4.99%
- Sydney remains ninth most expensive office rental market in the world: Cushman & Wakefield
- ME Bank cuts three-year fixed to 4.99%
- St George the latest to offer a two-year fixed rate of 4.99%
- David Koch “catastrophe” comments revisited: Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast house prices record modest declines in 2012
- Blackburn orchard owned by former VFL player Bert Cock seeks $4 million from developers
- Melbourne land sales heading for toughest year since 2006 as rebates rise: Oliver Hume
- New 'Golden Ticket' visa offers further advantages for cashed-up Asian investors keen on Australian real estate
- Little for office and retail landlords to cheer about as commercial property outlooks dims: NAB survey
- Restructured Folkestone prepares for first Karratha residential settlements
- Chart of the week: Who is leasing office space in the Sydney CBD?
- Commonwealth Bank, NAB and ANZ match Westpac with 4.99% fixed rate package offerings
- Federation Centres emerges from Centro with stronger balance sheet and back in the black
- Rental market tightens in January to national vacancy rate of 1.9% mainly due to seasonality: SQM
- Housing market has firmed following rate cuts: RBA February minutes
- Distressed property listings set to spike in 2013 led by defaulting development sites: Colliers International
- Zara, Topshop and Uniqlo lead retail property push into Australia
- ASIC may expand powers to cover SMSF property investment
- ASIC may expand powers to cover SMSF property investment
- Bendigo and Adelaide Bank signals cheaper funding for new mortgages
- Residential market remains soft but strength in NSW and Perth: Lend Lease CEO Steve McCann
- Melbourne private investor pays $1.65 million for premises of Fred Perry on sought-after Little Collins Street
- Lend Lease profits up 38% but steep drop in Docklands apartment sales
- Co-working office spaces food for thought for investors as vacancies rise
- No one pays the 6.4% standard variable rate: Commonwealth Bank boss Ian Narev
- No rate cut in March say economists, but major banks divided: Bloomberg
- ANZ quarterly profits up 6.2% amid “cautious” environment
- Palazzo Versace hotel sale helps lift Sunland interim profits as residential sales slow
- Cinemas trump books and CDs: GPT highlights top-performing retail tenants and changes retail mix
- Half of apartments in Mirvac’s Array development in Docklands sold
- Dexus profits up 83% as suburban office tenants relocate to the CBD
- David Devine's Metro remains Brisbane off-the-plan top seller
- Matthew Guy approves new 50-storey Melbourne CBD office tower
- Australia’s status as commercial property investment hotspot brightens: Jones Lang LaSalle
- Challenger secures Italian pizza tenant Konopizza for refurbished Jam Factory
- Commercial lending up 8.6% in December: ABS
- Consumer confidence at highest level in more than two years but March rate cut still on the cards: Westpac
- In profile: Tim Mutton, Colliers International’s Canberra office specialist
- Commonwealth Bank reports lower funding costs and brighter outlook as interim profits rise 6% to $3.78 billion
- Private investors return to south-east Melbourne industrial market in droves
- Stockland pins hopes on western Sydney and WA residential projects as interim profits slump 148%
- Resimac makes bid for RHG Limited loan book, formerly called RAMS
- First-home buyers at lowest share of new home loans in more than eight years: historical data to 1991
- First-home buyers at lowest share of new home loans in more than eight years: historical data to 1991
- Non-bank lender BMC Mortgage the first to move independently of the RBA with variable rate cut
- Estate agents offered multi-lingual audio translations to tap into Asian market
- SMSFs' ever-growing desire for property investments creating potential liquidity headaches
- Australian household wealth rising as house prices and yields lift: RBA
- SMSFs' ever-growing desire for property investments creating potential liquidity headaches
- RAMS joins Westpac by cutting fixed rates below 5%
- Mortgage lending falls 1.5% in December but some pick-up for new housing: ABS
- Spanish-themed Chocolateria San Churro to open first Adelaide CBD store on Rundle Street.
- Prospects pick up for Hervey Bay as properties under $300,000 begin to sell and rental vacancies tighten
- Funding cost to ease: a guide to the lowest rate home loan offerings fixed and variable starting from 4.89%
- Central Equity heads back to Perth to find willing apartment investors
- APM's Andrew Wilson’s top 2013 Sydney suburb picks showing price growth led by multi-cultural Fairfield
- Penrith, Wiley Park and Lakemba beat Potts Point for price growth among Andrew Wilson's unit hotspots for 2013
- Federation Centres sells half-shares in four malls to ISPT for $371.4 million
- Banksia investors to get “significant” second payment in June as receivers aim to realise half of loan portfolio and sell defunct branches
- Gloomy former RBA board member Bob Gregory predicts cash rate to fall to 1.5% but other bank economists more circumspect
- ANZ leaves variable mortgage rates unchanged at independent review
- Housing market is responding to rate cuts with many other positive signs: RBA
- Size and number of mortgage insurance claims fall in December quarter: Genworth
- Wickham Securities creditors to get between 6 and 22 cents back for every dollar: liquidator
- Unemployment unchanged at 5.4% in January but full-time employment falls: ABS
- Westpac lead the big banks below 5% on fixed home loans
- St George cuts fixed rates, with three-year fixed at 5.29%
- Australand profits up 5% in 'interesting times', with strong demand for Melbourne apartments
- Sydney the only partial bright spot as CBD office vacancies rise, with mining demand down: PCA
- Stockland exposed as Gold Coast house-and-land activity falls to worst level in 30 years: Prodap
- REA Group profits up 25% but paying agent numbers fall
- Absentee landlords on alert as Perth estate agents foil fresh scammers
- Melbourne landlords with poor-quality office space placed on notice: Charter Keck Cramer
- Chinese signal property buying intentions in Australia as permanent arrivals numbers rise and visitor numbers jump dramatically
- Retail sales fall 0.2% in December despite Christmas cheer: ABS
- Lend Lease signs deal for $1 billion Perth riverside project to feature 600 apartments
- Bank of Melbourne offers free property reports and investment tips but don’t expect a chat with Alan Kohler
- Bank of Melbourne offers free property reports and investment tips but don’t expect a chat with Alan Kohler
- Mooted super tax changes a concern for SMSF property investors: Nick Sherry
- Big four banks divided on likelihood of March RBA cash rate cut
- Woolworths service station to tempt private investors with 7.5% return
- What the mining boom has done for hotel occupancy rates: Chart of the week
- Gold Coast replaces Sydney south-west fringe as most mortgage delinquent region in Australia: Fitch Ratings
- Piercing studio rents space on Flinders Lane, Melbourne at $1,900 per square metre
- Perth leads capital city house prices up 1.6% in December 2012 quarter: ABS
- RBA leaves cash rate on hold at 3% in February
- Melbourne CBD strata offices continue to be snapped up.
- Mortgage war looms as smaller banks show they are more than willing home loan providers: APRA figures
- GPT puts half-share in Erina Mall on Central Coast up for sale: Reports
- Big banks risk more unhappy customers by not passing on rate cuts in full: Roy Morgan
- Melbourne backpackers' hostel building the Elephant with faded Edwardian charm sells to owner-operator
- AFG reports record January figures with $2.2 billion of mortgages approved
- Sydney property listings fall by 'surprising' 6% in January to lowest level since April 2010: SQM
- February RBA interest rate decision: A guide to the lowest rate home loan offerings as of February 4
- Upmarket Mt Lawley and blue-collar Calista lead 2.3% gain in Perth property prices in December quarter: REIWA
- Building approvals fall 4.4% in December, up 9.3% for 2012: ABS
- In profile: Sydney CBD office investment specialist Richard Horne
- RBA to leave cash rate on hold next week say economists: Bloomberg
- House prices to rise 10% this year as part of upward trend: Koukoulas
- RAMS waives fees for first-home buyers
- RAMS waives fees for first-home buyers
- Disconnect between rents and house prices suggests housing is overvalued: Philip Soos
- Concerns over public sector job losses on Canberra property market overplayed: REIACT president
- Canberra property market likely to tread water in election year, but not without uncertainty
January 2013
- The 10 reasons why Australian property prices will rise 5% to 10% in 2013: John McGrath
- Majority of borrowers expect rates to remain on hold this week: survey
- Brisbane, Perth and Sydney lead 1.2% gain in property values in January: RP Data
- Mortgage growth remains at record lows as non-banks lose market share: RBA
- Melbourne houses and units end year in the red: Residex
- 'Resilient' Sydney house and unit prices reach record highs in 2012: APM
- Australian house prices to rise 2.1% over next two years: NAB industry survey
- Administrators find $10.8 million black hole in Wickham Securities
- Melbourne residential property market on the mend? Property Observer navigates the muddling median maze
- “Mild cyclical recovery” for property market over next 12 months, but a better bet than bonds and cash: Shane Oliver
- A third of borrowers would ditch big four banks for 50-basis-point discount: CUA
- Most home owners can't afford $8,200 flood insurance premiums as claims rise
- Suncorp receives 4,500 insurance claims as anxious Queensland and northern NSW home owners await rising flood waters
- NSW building inquiry recommends construction trusts to protect sub-contractors
- Darwin property market leads the nation but affordability headwinds for 2013: Colliers International
- Cumberland Lorne Resort $3.1 million resort write-down blamed on Victorian coastal market woes
- ATO warns investors about illegal SMSF rental property scheme
- ATO warns investors about illegal SMSF rental property scheme
- ATO warns on home loan tax avoidance schemes
- NSW to lead national housing construction recovery: Deloitte
- Sydney mortgage broker convicted for using false documents to seek $3 million in mortgage approvals
- Suncorp ranks as top non-major bank first-home buyer lender as Commonwealth Bank grabs lion’s share of market: AFG
- Suncorp ranks as top non-major bank first-home buyer lender as Commonwealth Bank grabs lion’s share of market: AFG
- Residential land sales fall 17.8% in fragile September quarter but values hold firm: HIA/RP Data
- Adelaide mortgage fund Angas Securities reports a third of loans more than three months in arrears
- Half of borrowers ahead on mortgage payments: Morningstar and ING Direct
- ME Bank cuts fixed rates
- Australian housing market not as unaffordable as Demographia claims: Andrew Wilson
- Self-funded retirees facing $30 million loss following collapse of lender Wickham Securities
- Centro buys Coffs Harbour mall from syndicate for $65.5 million
- The mortgage loans war we won’t have in 2013: Morningstar
- RBA interest rate watch: Inflation up 0.2% in December quarter, below expectations
- Understand potential capital gains tax implications: Tips for expat Australian property buyers
- Real estate listings website Housenet.com.au crowdsources its design
- Big mortgage + big deposit = big rate discount possibilities: mortgage brokers
- State handouts turned first-home owners into “sacrificial lambs”: Steve Keen
- State handouts turned first-home owners into “sacrificial lambs”: Steve Keen
- Centro buys Coffs Harbour mall from syndicate for $65.5 million
- Challenger acquires Centro Surfers Paradise Mall for $162.5 million
- Younger Australians increasingly prefer holidaying in Melbourne over the Gold Coast: Roy Morgan
- The cheapest home loan offerings in the lead-up to February RBA decision
- St George economist tips minimum 5% house price growth in capital cities in 2013 including Melbourne
- Tough year ahead for mortgage lending could be good news for borrowers: RateCity.com.au
- RBA interest rates countdown: Low inflation number could result in February rate cut
- From Melton to Berwick: The 33 Melbourne suburbs with affordable three-bedroom apartments
- Unemployment rises to 5.4%: Seven insights for property investors and buyers
- US Masters Fund moves upmarket with historic Hell’s Kitchen and Harlem acquisitions
- Steve Keen heads to Fair Work tribunal in legal stoush with the University of Western Sydney
- RBA interest rates watch: slight rise in unemployment to 5.4% in December, but as forecast
- From Noble Park to Essendon: 23 Melbourne suburbs with one-bedroom apartments priced below the first-home buyer mortgage median
- From Noble Park to Essendon: 23 Melbourne suburbs with one-bedroom apartments priced below the first-home buyer mortgage median
- Rise in rental vacancy rate to 2.3% in December mainly seasonal: SQM Research
- Industry professionals more optimistic about Australian property market, with outlook strongest in WA, NT and NSW: ANZ/PCA
- Devine to begin building Teneriffe apartments with rooftop CBD views early after strong off-the-plan sales
- Provident Capital debenture holders get first payments since July
- Rents soaring in Perth and Darwin: APM
- Credit card spending on food and liquor up 10.8% over Christmas, but no sign of indulgent spending: CommSec
- March rate cut more likely as time to buy house sentiment falls in January: Westpac
- Gold Coast property bubble burst, but still bottoming out: Tim Lawless
- First-home buyer policies failing in NSW and Queensland
- House-and-land incentive and discounts from $5,000 to $126,000
- First-home buyer policies failing in NSW and Queensland
- Dee Why property investor loses battle with ATO over split rental income with estranged wife
- Lenders return to 100% plus mortgages but with parental guarantor requirement
- Stockland shares trade up as Mark Steinert completes first day in charge
- No formal GPT bid for Australand possibly until February but joint bid with Mirvac also mooted
- Commonwealth Bank deal to buy Aussie Home Loans to face industry scrutiny
- Falling dollar and end to budget surprlus means just one more rate cut: Saul Eslake
- RAMS waives application fee for new home loan borrowers
- Changing real estate agents? Beware of double sales commission risk
- Mortgage lending falls in November despite October rate cut: ABS
- HSBC’s Paul Bloxham the lone rider tipping interest rates to rise 2013
- The lowest mortgage rates from the big four banks
- More bearish NAB now expects three interest rate cuts in 2013
- Demand rising for tiny studio apartments, but mortgage hurdles higher: Aussie John Symond
- Majority shareholder CapitaLand to review its investment in takeover target Australand
- Australian analysts tip modest property price gains in 2013 led by Perth, depending on who you ask
- Billionaire John van Leishout to buy Fortitude Valley bulky goods centre for $100 million
- Springvale estate agent’s representative fined $3,000 after buying client’s house without permission
- WA the only bright spot as detached house approvals fall 0.3% in November: ABS
- Centuria buys Sydney CBD tower from Stockland for $56 million
- Victorian government offers bigger carrot to first-home buyers: Government housing incentives in 2013
- Australian housing still least affordable in the world despite recent improvements: Fitch
- Victorian government offers bigger carrot to first-home buyers: Government housing incentives in 2013
- Better year expected for retail property sector despite 'insipid' November ABS sales result
- Rate cuts having no 'meaningful' impact on residential development sales: Mirvac
- Stable outlook for Australian housing market but no price gains in 2013: Fitch
- Decisive federal election result will help Australian property markets: Analysts
- Gladstone property market cooling, with some 20% price corrections: HTW
- Sydney property investor battles ATO for five years over tax bill on property sold at a loss
- Sydney and Perth set for property price growth of between 4% and 6% in 2013, with increased housing affordability: Macquarie Capital
- Appetite for fixed-rate home loans falls in December following rate cut: Mortgage Choice
- The lowest mortgage rates from the big four banks and their subsidiaries
- Dwelling construction activity continues to slump in December quarter: AIG/HIA
- North shore the standout Gold Coast new unit market in 2012, helped by receivership sales: Colliers
- SMSFs turn to low-risk deposits and shares but commercial property still big part of portfolios: ATO report
- SMSFs turn to low-risk deposits and shares but commercial property still big part of portfolios: ATO report
- More rate cuts likely in 2013: A guide to the lowest rate home loan offerings as of January 7
- Steve Keen and Macquarie Group tip cash rate of 2% by year-end
- Eight property pointers for buying or selling in 2013
December 2012
- Big 75-basis-point RBA cash rate cut needed in February to override consumer sentiment: John Edwards
- Dexus pays $271 million for 25% of Harry Seidler-designed Grosvenor Place in Sydney CBD
- Christmas light spectaculars: From Rockefeller Center to the suburban Australian home
- Summer dreaming: 2012 vintage property sales start bearing fruit
- The 10 insights into the 2013 property market: What, why, when and where to look
- Down, down, interest rates going down in 2013, but will they make a difference?
- Brisbane CBD among 494 suburbs where you could be better off buying then renting, but very few inner-city options: RP Data
- Heavily discounted Hilton Surfers Paradise the only notable Gold Coast high-rise seller in November quarter: Midwood
- Mortgage broking big brands position themselves for challenging 2013 with diverse strategies
- Sydney house and unit prices continue to tread water with strongest gains in far outer suburbs: REINSW
- Property has bottomed out and heading for “healthy" growth rates of around 4% to 5% per annum”: John Symond
- No housing price crash, but if prices increase further Australia ‘flirting with danger’: RBA's Glenn Stevens
- Drug labs: landlords exposed if tenants undertaking criminal activity
- Investors snap up Sunbury commercial properties at yields ranging from 6.25% to 8.45%
- Population and migration pick-up likely to deliver boost to housing market: CommSec
- No official confirmation of Mirvac proposal to merge with Australand
- Commonwealth Bank lifts stake in Aussie Home Loans to 80%
- Odds of Australian house prices beating inflation in 2013 'not good': Steve Keen
- RBA sticks with theme of tentative residential recovery with mining and job worries spurring December rate cut
- Yellow Brick Road and RUN Property form property and financial services referral alliance
- Kalgoorlie/Boulder leads WA house price growth in year to September: ANZ
- Provident Capital receivers terminate two mortgage funds with poor initial returns for investors
- NAB takes up former Cartier retail space on Exhibition Street at $1,550 per square metre
- Stick to bricks and mortar: Harry Triguboff’s advice to investors as he prepares for a busy 50th year in property game
- Cash rate to fall 100 basis points to 2% in 2013: ANZ
- Perth CBD moves up to 20th most expensive market to rent office space in the world: CBRE
- Mortgagee sales decline 36% on NSW central coast as property market consolidates ahead of brighter 2013
- Investor snaps up Adelaide South Henley Beach “pot” house
- Sunshine Coast trumps Gold Coast in 2012 but both still buyers' markets: HTW
- Households growing concern about job market point to further rate cuts: Westpac
- Adelaide Henley Beach joint to go to auction – but alleged marijuana pot plants nipped in the bud
- Small business snapping up Melbourne CBD strata offices for as little as $95,000: DTZ
- Marked decline in property values hard to accept by for Palm Beach vendors on the Gold Coast: PRDnationwide
- ‘Pot’ plants in real estate ads bring Adelaide police to the open for inspection
- Lend Lease’s Darling Harbour exhibition space configurations questioned by exhibitors
- Luxury unit and retiree communities emerging in Wagga Wagga as local economic grows
- Residential property prices to rise 5% in 2013 but shares a better bet than property: Shane Oliver
- Former CEO of collapsed Compass Hotel Group pleads guilty to ASIC charges
- Chinese sovereign fund cashes in on share price surge to reduce holding in Goodman Australia
- Rate cuts keep mortgage holders upbeat but overall consumer sentiment slumps in December: Westpac index
- Design unveiled for Football NSW headquarters in western Sydney ahead of Asian Cup in 2015
- Perth and Darwin register double-digit annual rental growth defying flat market: REIA
- Investors returning ‘in droves’ to outer-western Sydney, with granny flat appeal: HTW
- Cairns office market still quiet but outlook brighter for 2013: Propell
- Kathmandu moves across the road on Richmond’s Bridge Road
- Private investor buys former Oakleigh bank building for $2.38 million
- Long, slow road to recovery for Melbourne residential land market, with prices to fall further: Charter Keck Cramer
- Lower interest rates following bust can have "toxic consequences": Glenn Stevens
- Profitable banks and cautious lending practices protecting Australia against "boom-bust" housing cycles: Oxford University economist
- Investors should look at Geraldton as future Gladstone style hotspot: Terry Ryder
- GPT $3billion bid for Australand portfolio to spur further consolidation activity in already concentrated A-REIT sector
- NRAS property investment stacks up and shouldn’t be demonised: Ruby Janssen
- Fixed home loan interest rates are attractive, but beware the potential pitfalls and restrictions
- Retail property returns dip in 'watershed' year
- Hobart guesthouse built from convict sandstone with rich colonial history listed for leasehold sale
- Owner-occupier lending up just 0.1% in October as first-home buyer numbers fall but investor and upgrader loans rise: ABS
- Centro seeks clean break with the past with name change to Federation Centres
- Australians focused on paying off home loans, not retirement savings, while banks earns billions more in interest payments
- Terry Ryder's eight regional hotspots for 2013: The key webinar slides
- Banksia may have traded and written loans while insolvent: receivers
- Wayne Swan set to assist NSW and Queensland push towards 'builders' first-home owner grants
- Wayne Swan set to assist NSW and Queensland push towards 'builders' first-home owner grants
- In profile: Folkestone managing director Greg Paramor
- Greater Building Society cuts standard variable rates by 20 basis points to 6.05%
- Appetite for new properties strongest in NSW: Mortgage Choice survey
- New ‘golden ticket’ visas to help recovery in prestige Australian residential markets
- Well-connected middle suburbs the bright spot in otherwise soft year for Brisbane residential market: HTW
- Getting through the mortgage maze: Chasing the lowest rates as most lenders pass on partial cash rate cut
- CUA offers 62 basis point average discount to major banks with 5.85% standard variable rate
- ASIC warns mortgage comparison websites on accuracy, disclosure and compliance
- Three brands, three different rates: St George and Bank of Melbourne to cut by 20 basis points
- Poor return likely for Provident Capital debenture holders as $5 million dividend payments investigated
- Credit boom unlikely to return but lower rates the new normal: Philip Lowe
- Moe beats Mildura as Victoria's top-performing regional city: Residex October quarter
- Winners and losers on the interest rate rollercoaster: Fixed and variable rates since 2007
- RE/MAX Aussie owners aim to double network with appeal to new estate agent immigrants
- Westpac joints CBA and NAB by passing on 20 basis points
- Commonwealth Bank cuts rates by 20 basis points
- RBA rate cuts blunted by households choosing to save rather than take on debt: September quarter GDP figures
- Little improvement in housing affordability in September quarter: REIA/Adelaide Bank report
- Rate watch: NAB moves first among big four passing on 20 basis points
- Rate cut aims to stimulate non-mining sectors of the economy
- Online ING Direct quick to move with full rate cut passed on to borrowers
- RBA rate cut won’t stimulate housing market pick-up: Leanne Pilkington
- Dwelling approvals fall by greater than expected 7.6% in October: ABS
- Victorian residential market likely to impact on 2013 earnings as Stockland confirms continued tough conditions
- NRAS property investment can provide positive cashflow for SMSF investors: Onyx
- NRAS property investment can provide positive cashflow for SMSF investors: Onyx
- Australian Bankers' Association says banks justified in not passing on rate cuts in full
- Nathan Tinkler puts Brisbane CBD office on the market: report
- A guide to the lowest rate home loan offerings fixed and variable as of December 5 as RBA cuts cash rate to 3%
- GPT commits to sustainability with six-star office building opening at Sydney’s Olympic Park
- Former 1930s Chippendale post office sells for $1.48 million
- Bank of Queensland to anchor-tenant FKP office building at Gasworks development
- RBA delivers some Christmas cheer to home borrowers with December rate cut
- ASIC permanently bans former Perth mortgage broker Mark Booty following fraud convictions
- Brisbane unit prices up 2.3% over November as capital city markets remain flat: RP Data-Rismark
- Newcastle fringe suburbs attracting first-home buyers and investors with many options under $300,000: HTW
- Rates need to fall a further 100 basis points to bring back first-home buyers: Harry Triguboff
- Rates need to fall a further 100 basis points to bring back first-home buyers: Harry Triguboff
- In profile: Allen Matis, head of property at SilverNeedle Hospitality
- Frasers’ QIII apartment tower rising above WACA scores double century of sales, with foreign buyers prominent
- Former Storm Financial adviser and ex-rugby league player Wally Fullerton-Smith handed permanent ASIC ban
November 2012
- Strong majority of economists tip December RBA cash rate cut: Bloomberg
- A-REITs with Perth and Sydney office exposure well placed
- Mortgage lending growth falls in October to remain at historical lows: RBA
- NAB changes interest rate cut call to December with one more in 2013
- Perth first-home buyers look outwards to semi-rural Baldivis and Ellenbrook for affordable house-and-land options: HTW
- Yellow Brick Road suspends Sydney mortgage broker Andrew Kaidbay
- John Symond raises $36,000 plus for Movember with Clark Gable/Sergeant Schultz look
- McGrath profits fall in year of expansion and acquisitions
- One in two property investors hand over full control of portfolio to property managers: survey
- Five key slides: Where property fits into your wealth-creation strategy
- One in three Melbourne residential lots being returned to developers by building firms: report
- Steep fall in Victoria new home sales prevents stronger October recovery: HIA
- Senate committee calls for comprehensive banking sector inquiry, code of conduct between banks and SMEs and abolition of withholding tax
- Stockland confirms UBS banker Mark Steinert as new managing director
- Victorian government’s urban development CEO resigns amid job cuts and market downturn
- Latest APRA figures paint sober picture of mutual lending sector
- NRAS and SMSF investors helping keep inner-Brisbane off-the-plan market afloat: David Devine and Ken Woodley
- Perth heads strong capital city hotel outlook with business travel trending upwards: Deloitte
- ABS quarterly figures indicate start of residential construction upswing: Westpac
- Varied residential market and raising financing a challenge for developers: Becton chairman
- Reed Construction liquidator recovered just $6,500 to date from Gold Coast Titans property arm
- Double-digit rental gains for capital city and mining town landlords: Residex
- Perth the standout performer while Brisbane bottoms out as house values tread water in October: Residex
- Anytime Fitness able to negotiate significant rental incentives as 'mini-major' drawcard
- Housing affordability improves to highest level since September 2009: HIA/CBA index
- Housing affordability improves to highest level since September 2009: HIA/CBA index
- Servcorp builds Australian portfolio with prestige leasings in Melbourne, Perth and Parramatta
- Modest growth tipped for mortgage lending in 2013 but investor confidence returning: Deloitte
- Borrower mortgage repayment diligence protecting Australia against ‘unlikely’ house price crash: IMF
- Grain shed may tempt rural investor at $180,000
- Sydney’s western corridor now the tightest CBD office market: Jones Lang LaSalle
- Hollywood special effects studio leases heritage space in Melbourne
- Mortgage brokers required by law to work in customers’ best interests: Mortgage Choice
- Smaller banks and non-banks to offer borrowers better mortgage deals in 2013: Deloitte
- In profile: Colliers International's Canberra office leasing specialist Aaron Green
- Brisbane Antiques Roadshow rolls into Logan City with industrial leasing
- Property investment proceeds not an alternative to full-time job: Australian buy-to-let landlord survey
- Mount Isa retail complex expected to sell on 10% yield at auction
- Mortgage brokers are not washing machine salesmen: Darren Moffatt
- Rules governing non-banks need to be tightened: Bob Edgar
- Popularity of home renovation reality television shows creating deadly asbestos health risk: ADFA
- Strong recovery in demand for residential land anticipated in Sydney and Perth fringes: BIS Shrapnel
- Demand for residential land to remain subdued on Melbourne and Adelaide fringes till 2017: BIS Shrapnel
- Investing in an apartment without a car park can make good sense: Savills’ David Poppleton
- Majority of economists tipping a December RBA cash rate cut, but all say there's one more cut left: Bloomberg
- Devine to develop first NSW project for nearly a decade with brighter residential outlook
- From $10,000 to $50,000: Residential developers tempt buyers with incentives
- Wellington's Forsyth Barr & Bayleys Towers sold for NZ$50.5 million
- Former Westpac executive Rob Coombe tipped as possible Stockland boss
- WA landlords could be locked into deadbolt requirements for rental properties
- Don’t invest in apartments without a car park: Monique Sasson Wakelin
- Funding constraints continue to hamper commercial property market: LandMark White chairman
- Former LJ Hooker Pymble agent David Johnson banned for eight years
- Investor pays $1.25 million above the reserve for Redfern commercial building
- Unlicensed Oatley agent fined $20,000 following NSW Fair Trading investigation
- Bundeena and Pittwater among far-flung Sydney suburbs offering city retreat, but at a cost: HTW
- Investor activity on the rise in Tamworth property market with yields of 7% possible
- Darling Harbour needs at least another 1,000 hotel rooms for new convention centre: Tourism and Transport Forum
- Moranbah current listings offer yields nearing 20%, but future returns less certain
- Swanston Street retail premises listed for auction
- Lonely Planet Melbourne headquarters relisted with $16.4 million hopes
- Expat Aussie investment banker tipped as next Stockland boss
- Investor snaps up Phamish restaurant premises on St Kilda Esplanade for $2.6 million
- Aussie John “SyMO” joins property industry Movember charity campaign
- The top 10 Australian shopping centre deals of 2012: Jones Lang LaSalle
- Pre-conditions in place for stronger residential building pick-up but further rate cut may be needed: Glenn Stevens
- Don't let overseas sentiment unnecessarily influence how you feel about our housing market: Andrew Winter
- Dutton Park mortgage stress debate continues as Resolution Research stands by figures
- Melbourne going Tutti Frutti for take-away foodie tenants
- Australian Tax Office joins ASIC by warning SMSF trustees on illegal property investment arrangements
- Australian Tax Office joins ASIC by warning SMSF trustees on illegal property investment arrangements
- Unexpected pick-up in new dwelling prices among reasons for November rate hold, but easing bias remains: RBA minutes
- Regional towns a budget property investment option but avoid one-industry mining towns: Monique Sasson Wakelin
- Sydney has entrenched tight rental market crisis but vacancy rate eases in Hunter and Illawarra: REINSW
- Victorian construction unions threaten to pull super funds from Cbus over ties with Grocon
- AustralianSuper to target offices and shopping centres in quest for $9 billion property portfolio
- Little-known Murarrie the top-performing Brisbane suburb for house prices over past 12 months: REIQ
- Two-storey 1930s commercial building in Sandgate, Brisbane has $400,000 auction hopes
- In profile: Sydney CBD office leasing specialist John Skufris
- Declining hotel returns still offers best reward for investors: IPD
- New York-based Blackstone Group buys Top Ryde mall for $341 million
- Room for RBA to move on rates, says Wayne Swan: Guide to the lowest rate mortgages, fixed and variable as of November 19
- No housing bubble and no housing crash likely: Michael Yardney
- RBA rate cuts stimulating 'relatively moderate' housing market recovery: Bank of America Merrill Lynch
- Brisbane apartment market stabilises in September quarter with sub-$650,000 the sweet spot: Place Advisory
- Pilbara offers only rarest of property investment nuggets under $400,000
- Bankmecu takes retail space on Little Collins Street at around $1,000 per square metre
- Industrial property offers strongest returns of commercial property classes: Morgan Stanley
- Frustrated Provident Capital debenture holders to vote on fairer distribution policy at December 13 meeting
- Hobart and Adelaide the capital cities with most property under $400,000: RP Data
- Economists remain divided on December 4 RBA cash rate cut: Bloomberg
- John Symond’s Aussie mortgage brokers rise to the top as industry resurgence gathers pace among Top 100
- Melbourne residential vacancy rate edges close to 3%: SQM Research
- Richmond shop on Swan Street snapped up by owner-occupier for $607,500
- South Australian government to make underquoting illegal
- Mirvac chairman James MacKenzie re-elected with 87.8% AGM support
- Stable outlook for residential market with improving housing affordability to underpin demand: Mirvac AGM
- Mining billionaire Sam Chong to develop second Brisbane hotel
- Property valuers just messengers in softer market: Greville Pabst
- Suncorp to remain short-term tenants of ISPT’s façade-damaged Melbourne CBD office building
- Local and foreign institutional investors swoop for prime Sydney industrial assets
- First-home buyers increasingly ageing into their 30s and one in five even aged 40 and over: Mortgage Choice
- First-home buyers increasingly ageing into their 30s and one in five even aged 40 and over: Mortgage Choice
- Consumer confidence soars to highest level since April 2011 but December rate cut still likely: Westpac
- Sydney houses under $1 million and units at bottom of cycle, but prestige market still favours buyers: WBP
- Weak local economy to push suburban Melbourne office vacancy rate to 10.6% by December 2013: BIS Shrapnel
- Median price of Melbourne land falls to $195,750 once rebates excluded: Oliver Hume
- Sydney’s Pitt Street mall drops to fifth most valuable retail strip: Cushman & Wakefield
- Only modest pick-up likely for residential building in next few years with high prices a factor: RBA
- Business conditions weakest in three years as construction sentiment slides: NAB
- ASIC raises alarm bells about spruikers exploiting SMSF rules to push dodgy property investments
- ASIC raises alarm bells about spruikers exploiting SMSF rules to push dodgy property investments
- Big Boy BBQ leases restaurant space in Hardware Lane in Melbourne CBD
- Super fund Cbus mulling direct property investment for members
- NSW first-home buyer numbers trending up could be a rush or a recovery
- Retail and industrial properties under $1 million the sweet spot for small investors: Reader survey
- In profile: CBRE commercial property specialist Peter Vines
- Roma leads Queensland mining town rental boom with 40% annual growth
- Private investor snaps up BT call centre for $16.5 million on double-digit yield
- Owner-occupier mortgage lending up 1.5% in September as first-home buyers reach 19.3%: ABS
- Chadstone Mall $500 million expansion wins Victorian government planning approval
- Mining-led construction boom to peak in 2014: Deloitte
- Dixon Advisory seeks up to $80 million from Australian investors for US fund
- Jones the Grocer premises in Woollahra up for lease at $1,000 per square metre
- Economists and major banks divided on December rate cut: Bloomberg
- Hurricane Sandy repair bill at US$430,000 for Dixon Advisory's US Masters fund
- Macquarie Bank doubles loans to investors in first nine months of 2012: APRA figures
- ANZ leaves variable mortgage rates unchanged in independent review
- Lower rates working their way through the economy as RBA notes improving housing market outlook
- PRDnationwide sets up home loan referral partnership with online lender eMoney
- Buy with friends rather than miss out on a good property opportunity: John Symond
- ANZ finds gloom in jobs figures to suggest December RBA rate cut is likely
- US listed property trust market dwarfs second-placed A-REITS
- Distressed commercial property listing on the rise: LandMark White
- Aussie Home Loans reports best monthly results since 2009 Wizard acquisition
- October unemployment unchanged at 5.4% and better than forecast raises bar higher for December rate cut
- Rate hold decision not significant as long as easing bias remains: Brian White
- No recovery for retail property sector for at least two years: NAB
- FKP completes construction of delayed Aerial apartment project in Camberwell
- Ex-Mirvac boss Nick Collishaw still waiting for answers on sudden departure
- Yellow Brick Road confirms Macquarie Bank funding deal to challenge major bank mortgage dominance
- RBA decision disappoints as property recovery limited to first-home buyer market: John McGrath
- Perth CBD office rents growing at three times national average
- ANZ best at forecasting rate calls: Tweet of the day
- Macquarie Group set to fund Yellow Brick Road home loan assault on major banks
- A guide to the lowest rate home loan offerings fixed and variable as of October 30 as RBA leaves cash rate at 3.25%
- NZ agents help Ray White to $2.6 billion October sales tally: Tweet of the day
- Healthcare giant B Braun signs whole-floor lease in Bella Vista office park
- Property market unlikely to feel too much pain from RBA rate decision
- Local estate agent Wayne Elly buys historic former Williamstown grocer for $2.5 million
- RBA notes signs of “prospective improvement” in housing investment
- A-REITs match global competitors on annual returns as investor confidence in the sector improves: Ernst & Young
- Perth the standout as house price growth slows in September quarter: ABS
- Keep cash rate on hold on Melbourne Cup Day but easing bias remains: shadow RBA board
- Rents and house prices rise in Mount Isa due to demand from mining employees
- Big savings from mutual lenders but little customer awareness: Australia Institute report
- Darrell Lea among store closures as Adelaide’s Rundle Mall vacancy rate hits double figures: Savills
- Steady on: RBA leaves the cash rate at 3.25% on Melbourne Cup Day
- Enmore tops list of inner-Sydney suburbs where it’s cheaper to buy a house rather than rent: RP Data
- AFG bucks national trend with record October mortgage sales
- Westpac records record cash profits of $6.6 billion but sluggish mortgage lending amid higher funding costs
- NIMBYism to impact on subdued two-speed recovery in new home building: ANZ
- Victorian first-home buyers increased stamp duty benefits take effect with savings of up to $3,100
- Darwin well-positioned as investor hotspot but dependent on mining and public sector: RP Data
- RBA still likely to cut the cash rate on Melbourne Cup Day: Bloomberg survey
- Queensland government cutbacks hurt Westlawn Property Trust
- Declining October Melbourne residential listings bring some balance to market
- Gross yield of 8% on offer for Dank Street guitar shop in Sydney's Waterloo
- RBA must cut the cash rate on Melbourne Cup day: John Symond
- Dixon Advisory expects “no material impact” on the value of US residential portfolio following Hurricane Sandy
- Perth property market into its upswing: WBP
- Demand for fixed-rate mortgages climbs to six-month high: Mortgage Choice
- House prices tumble further in Hobart suburbs despite rise in sales activity: REIT
- Private investors top buyers of Brisbane warehouses
- Property investors should look outside of Melbourne as short-term rally ends: RP Data
- A maximum of two more rate cuts to come say uncertain Property Observer readers
- Westfield co-founder Frank Lowy inducted into Australian Property Hall of Fame
- ASIC taskforce to investigate Banksia collapse and seek regulation of unlisted debenture sector
- Debtless Meriton halts Sydney apartment site buying spree as it seeks to sell 700 older apartments: Harry Triguboff
October 2012
- 'Precarious' housing market recovery halts in October: RP Data-Rismark
- Dixon Advisory to undertake ‘significant clean-up' of New Jersey properties damaged by Hurricane Sandy
- Creditors vote to return St Hilliers Construction to control of director Tim Casey
- In profile: Lend Lease head of urban regeneration David Rolls
- Our cities do the PR work for our country: Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani
- Charter Hall’s Docklands office tower near Etihad Stadium wins development approval
- Mortgage growth falls to new historic lows as borrower caution rules over lower interest rates: RBA figures
- Dwelling approvals rise 7.8% in September and dampen Melbourne Cup cash rate cut prospects
- NAB full year profits slump but mortgage growth up 10% despite soft metro housing markets
- Steve Keen contemplates quitting Australian academia for possible private sector role in London
- In profile, Knight Frank’s head of industrial Eugene Evgenikos
- How overseas investors have stormed the Australian hotel market
- Centuria Brisbane office fund generated 10% returns and named unlisted fund of the year
- Lygon Street premises of Donati's Fine Meats smashes records with emotion-driven $2.89 million sale at auction
- Melbourne Cup Day rate cut now only a '50-50 call' following deputy RBA governor speech: Michael Blythe
- Non-fiction book publisher Parragon moves from South Yarra to Richmond at $320 per square metre
- Rate cuts won’t stimulate housing market whether passed on in full or not: CBA chief executive Ian Narev
- New house sales slump to 18-year low in September: HIA
- Campbelltown Square shopping complex placed in hands of receivers over loan shortfall
- Penrith offering yields of 6% and strong demographics to tempt investors
- Lenders cut fixed rates: guide to the lowest rate home loan offerings fixed and variable as of October 30
- ANZ reports strong mortgage growth and annual profits of $5.7 billion but warns of “stronger headwinds” in 2013
- AustralianSuper to double commercial property investments as part of diversification play
- Sunland boutique projects find niche market but Gold Coast house-and-land sales slump to 27-year low
- New $15,000 construction grant to spur on recovery of Ipswich property market: PRDnationwide
- Rising inflation could mean just one more RBA rate cut: HSBC’s Paul Bloxham
- Brisbane house prices hold firm for first time in two years as national housing market 'consolidates': APM
- Sydney named sixth biggest global commercial property investment locale: Cushman & Wakefield
- Emporium Melbourne likely to open with 85% occupancy rate in 2013: Goldman Sachs
- Inflation rises by a higher than expected 1.4% over September quarter, up 2% year-on-year: ABS
- NAB customer satisfaction rating reaches record high but home loan customers not any happier: Roy Morgan
- Changing living habits suggest less demand for detached housing: Adelaide Brighton
- Price Melbourne land at its true value and buyers will come: Australand
- No risk of housing bubble but political bickering not helping buyer confidence: John Symond
- Noosa office suite sells for $230,000 to holidaying expat investor on 9% yield
- Banks refusing to play ball on residential projects holding back Sydney new home construction: BIS Shrapnel
- In profile: Nathan Bingham, Colliers International’s Melbourne industrial property specialist
- ISPT’s Urban Workshop in Melbourne CBD ranks as top-performing unlisted trust with 12.8% annual return
- Community First Credit Union becomes second lender to offer sub-5% one-year fixed home loan
- Convenience store temporarily takes up historic Darrell Lea space on Sydney’s George Street
- Commonwealth Bank more valuable than McDonald's and American Express: Tweet of the day
- RBA to introduce new reporting requirements for residential mortgage-backed securities
- Brisbane vacancy rate tightens to 1.7% as investors hold back or sell: REIQ
- Aspirational Dutton Park tops list of 19 mortgage-stressed inner-Brisbane suburbs
- Perth house prices unchanged in September quarter with first-home buyer numbers rising: REIWA
- Budget surplus gives RBA 'maximum flexibility' to cut rates but dwelling investment recovery a year off
- Home buyer confidence at 18-month high but first-home buyers retreat: CBA/MFAA
- State-by-state guide to first-home buyer grants as SA offers $23,500 new home carrot
- With 50-basis-point cut expectations, nine economists expect lowest cash rate since late 1950s
- Odd one out, fund manager Ausbil Dexia joins Australian economists tipping Melbourne Cup Day rate cut: Bloomberg
- Sunshine Coast most expensive regional market to buy land: HIA-RP Data
- Charter Hall Retail REIT shifts focus to high-yielding sub-regional shopping centres
- Commercial mortgage securitisation market dries up in wake of global uncertainty: Standard Poor’s
- Queensland the top destination for those prepared to “pull up stumps”: ING Direct
- Modest recovery rather than a boom bodes well for housing market recovery: BIS Shrapnel
- More room for fixed rates to fall and better deals outside major banks: Mozo
- No risk of housing bubble forming in Australia: Treasury economist David Gruen
- Greater Building Society cuts one-year fixed home loan to 4.99%
- Cash rate heading for 52-year low, says Stephen Koukoulas: Tweet of the day
- Fixed rate offerings pretty hard to resist: Loan Market
- Victoria’s Mallee tops list of 10 cheapest municipalities to buy land: HIA-RP Data
- Exposure to SE Queensland commercial property market causes Bank of Queensland's first bank loss in 20 years
- Federal report suggests $220 billion sell-off of ports, airports and infrastructure assets to fund future projects
- Margaret Lomas dismisses US doomster Jordan Wirsz's fresh claim of Australian impending property market crash
- Fixed-rate borrowers seldom beat the bank: Tweet of the day
- Provident Capital likely to be wound up at October 24 meeting of creditors
- Historic Lygon Street, Carlton, butcher seeking new buyer with juicy $1.5 million-plus hopes
- New home building flat in June quarter: ABS
- Stockland expects further slide in profits in 2012-13 in ‘very tough’ Victorian residential market
- Some 2009 first-home buyers struggling to refinance mortgages due to declining values: JP Morgan
- Perth to lead house price growth over next three years, with Sydney and Brisbane also strong: BIS Shrapnel and QBE
- Consistent rental returns on direct commercial property, but capital gains fluctuate: AMP
- In profile: CBRE's Zelman Ainsworth, Melbourne CBD retail specialist
- Singapore developer 'cheeky' for selling unapproved Melbourne CBD high-rise project off the plan: Lord mayor
- Flashy developer incentives push up cost – and attendant stamp duty – of Melbourne land packages: Australand
- Investor picks up outer-Melbourne warehouse for $515,000 on 7% yield
- Investors rush to buy into Cromwell’s Ipswich City unlisted property trust
- Listed property trusts should only play a supporting role in an investment portfolio: Morningstar
- Investors have a taste for high yields, long leases and brand names of fast-foods premises
- Charity World Vision leases warehouse space in Croydon
- Tweet of the day: Hong Kong housing bubble risks downplayed by S&P, notes CommSec's Craig James
- Housing demand fundamentals in place but investment yet to pick up: RBA October minutes
- One Big Switch targets miserly mortgage lenders in new consumer awareness campaign
- Melbourne CBD office leasing activity lowest in a decade but demand for space will prevent vacancy 'blowout': Savills
- Wesfarmers considering selling off Coles freehold supermarkets to institutional investors
- Regional Queensland development sites top list of most distressed commercial assets: LandMark White
- Two-thirds of borrowers open to switching lenders for better deal: Ernst & Young
- Victorian registered builder numbers at 12-month low as 24,000 jobs go: Victorian Building Commission
- Suncorp leases new office space at Westfield Fountain Gate for training hub
- Docklands apartment sales help Lend Lease weather challenging residential market conditions
- Transport group ACFS to lease 15,000-square-metre Melbourne warehouse at $800,000 per annum
- WA Consumer Protection targets rent-to-buy property scheme that took David Beckham jersey in lieu of deposit
- Home loan numbers rise 1.8% in August with strong bounce in new home lending: ABS
- Harry Triguboff’s Meriton group plans 200 apartments on newly acquired Rosebery site and tips cash rate to fall to 2%
- First-home buyer $15,000 grant to spark recovery in NSW new home building: BIS Shrapnel
- Loans.com.au cuts standard variable offering to 5.46%: A guide to the lowest home loans in 44 years
- Adelaide detached housing market has bottomed out but sluggish unit market still in a downswing: WBP
- 'Facebook' for housing market launched by mortgage broker Darren Moffatt
- Melbourne property market treads water in September quarter but seeds sown for recovery: REIV
- ANZ cuts variable rates by 20 basis points but borrowers must wait until October 19
- Punters can more than ‘Dare to Dream’ about a Melbourne Cup Day cash rate cut: Bloomberg
- Just six out of 41 lenders have passed on full rate cut: Ratecity.com.au
- Commonwealth Bank cuts fixed rates by more than cash rate cut
- Some NSW developers claim big first-home buyer rush, but is it hype or reality?
- Chinese apartment buyers retreating from Australia: Harry Triguboff
- Recovering housing market at 6.30 on the property clock with no risk of a housing bubble: John Symond
- Only one more rate cut left as RBA wary of overstimulating housing market: HSBC’s Paul Bloxham
- Jobs data complicates Melbourne Cup RBA cash rate call: Craig James
- Borrowers must save for deposits when buying a home but loan-to-value ratios should not be capped: RBA’s Luci Ellis
- Rent rises to outpace house price growth over next two years: NAB
- Stockland’s Selandra Rise tops Melbourne’s house-and-land sales but fewer sales forecast: Colliers
- FIRB chairman Brian Wilson repeats call to keep politics out of Chinese foreign real estate investment decisions
- Australand’s Bob Johnston and Westfield CFO Peter Allen among possible replacements for Stockland's Matthew Quinn
- Chinese tourist 'boom' and high migration numbers bode well for housing demand: CommSec's Craig James
- Interest rates can fall 'a lot further' without housing bubble risk: Harry Triguboff
- Melbourne developers now building more multi-unit projects than houses: HTW
- Home buying sentiment surges to highest level in three years: Westpac Melbourne Institute Index
- Rising rental yields to draw investors back into housing market: RBA deputy governor Philip Lowe
- Food stores replacing fashion retailers as CBD tenants in Melbourne: HTW
- ANZ Mobile Lending relocates in Sydney CBD
- RAMS joins St George and Westpac by cutting fixed rates
- Alfresco café dining premises in Richmond listed at $655,000
- In profile: Auctioneer Damien Cooley
- DIY wars good news for south-eat Queensland bulky goods property sector: Midwood
- Rosebud SMSF investor reads tea leaves to snap up Geelong retail spot for $340,000
- Chart of the week: Why large retailers and chain stores can pay their rents
- Remote Cloncurry, Queensland, a hotspot with high yield potential: Terry Ryder
- Tweet of the day: Australia is punching above its weight economically, says Wayne Swan
- IMF vindicates RBA October rate cut as it warns of one-in-six chance of recession in advanced economies
- First-home buyers risk confusion by viewing too many properties: buyers’ agents
- Bankmecu puts major banks in the shade as just four out of 13 lenders pass on full rate cut: Ratecity.com.au
- Sydney northern beaches residential market still weak with no turnaround in sight: HTW
- Perth and Brisbane heading into property market upswing: Louis Christopher
- Cellarbrations leases shop in Healesville Walk Shopping Centre
- Luggage retailer Victoria Station signs nine-year office/warehouse lease in Melbourne suburb of Keysborough
- Melbourne estate agent cops permanent ban over $167,000 trust account deficit
- Smaller lenders offer borrower satisfaction as major banks withhold part of rate cut
- Hot property investment opportunities in west, north and outer-east Melbourne suburbs: APM
- Plenty of regional hotspots to tempt investors as market hovers at five o’clock on property clock: Margaret Lomas
- Majority of economists punt on Melbourne Cup Day RBA cash rate cut: Bloomberg
- Westpac passes on just 18 basis points to bring standard variable rate to 6.71% and cuts fixed rates
- Commonwealth Bank cuts standard variable rate by 20 basis points to 6.6%
- NAB passes on 20 basis points and trims standard variable rate to 6.58%
- Sydney first-home buyer interest picking up – but not silver screen-worthy – in wake of government grant
- No big spring listings rush as stock on market hold steady in September: SQM
- ANZ boss adds to growing list warning of Australian housing bubble risk
- Gold Coast new apartment stock halves in two years: Midwood
- New first-home owner grant to add momentum to Sydney unit market upswing: PRDnationwide
- ING Direct passes on full rate cut while Greater Building Society passes on 15 bps to standard variable customers
- RBA “coming round” to need for November rate cut and 2.5% cash rate: Shane Oliver
- Dwelling approvals rise 6.4% in August but detached housing remains weak: ABS
- Australian borrowers remain world beaters on mortgage management as arrears fall further in July: Moody’s
- Administrators seek rescue deal for St Hilliers Construction rather than liquidation
- Borrowers left waiting 10.6 days for a partial rate cuts as banks assert market dominance
- Investors should be wary of buying house-and-land packages in mining hotspots: Terry Ryder
- AFG fixed-rate demand increasing as ME Bank locks in 45% of all new borrowers
- Inner-Brisbane apartment sales surge as rents rise and investors seize opportunity: Midwood
- Non-bank lender eMoney offering 5.2% three-year fixed rate: the lowest mortgage rate offerings
- Offices, business hotels and bulky goods stores to lead next commercial property investment upswing: BIS Shrapnel
- Outside of Perth, office rents have stalled; Commercial Property chart of the week
- Leasing ladder: Hair salon takes up historic arcade space in Melbourne CBD at $1,600 per square metre
- Commercial hammer prices: Puckle Street restaurant plus upstairs apartment sells for $800,000 on 5% yield
- Cash rate cut, but borrowers unlikely to enjoy the full benefit
- In profile: Jason Huljich, CEO of Centuria Property Funds
- Housing industry welcomes RBA cash rate cut and expects another on Melbourne Cup Day
- ‘Surprise’ 1.4% rise in capital city dwelling values highest in 30 months but moderate growth ahead: RP Data-Rismark
- Woolworths considering spinning off property holdings into A-REIT
- No property market recovery in 2013, but some early positive signs in WA: Peet
- RBA should keep cash rate on hold at 3.5%: Shadow board
- Banks reluctant to pass on full 25-basis-point rate cut
- Cheapest of RP Data’s 100 growth suburbs, Grenfell rising property values would have inspired native son Henry Lawson
- RBA cuts cash rate by 25 basis points to 3.25% – lowest in three years
- Little-known Dudley heads RP Data's Top 100 growth suburbs, with mining towns prominent and prestige suburbs absent
September 2012
- Half of households just managing to pay mortgage and other bills: ME Bank survey
- ANZ halts slide in customer satisfaction but NAB still best among mortgage holders: Roy Morgan Research
- Reluctance of baby boomers to downsize creating inefficient housing market: REIA’s Evgeniya Hawthorne
- Two-thirds of economists tipping rate hold next week, with the major banks divided: Bloomberg
- Mortgage lending up just 0.3% in August as owner-occupiers continue to deleverage: RBA
- Unsecured Provident Capital creditors meet
- Conditions in housing market improving, says Catherine Cashmore: Tweet of the day
- Stalking charges dismissed against Mermaid Beach campaigner Rod Lambert
- Stronger housing market among factors that will cause the RBA to keep the cash rate on hold next week: HSBC’s Paul Bloxham
- Many shelved Melbourne apartment projects only at planning stage: Charter Keck Cramer
- Everything you need to know about the new NSW first-home buyer $15,000 grant
- First-home buyers facing fewer hurdles to getting onto the property ladder: Genworth
- Mining contracts keep large construction firms busy as apartment building falls: HIA
- Less volatile unlisted property investments have outperformed REITS over last 25 years: PFA report
- Offshore investors to take stakes in Macquarie mall and mulling Centro investments
- Harry Triguboff's Meriton Group to borrow to fund new apartment expansion plans
- Commercial hammer prices: Freehold land in Croydon, Melbourne snapped up for $3.98 million
- Brisbane property market stuck in a downswing as investors seek unit bargains: WBP Property Group
- Rental demand 'renaissance' from mine workers to push up Perth property prices: ANZ
- Perth and Brisbane CBD office markets surge in investment value as Sydney falls: Jones Lang LaSalle
- House prices booming after RBA cash rate cuts, says Christopher Joye: Tweet of the day
- SQM Research more positive on Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast property markets
- Suncorp Bank cuts three-year fixed-rate home loan to 5.48%
- Victorians lead home buyer confidence to highest level since 2007: Genworth report
- Mining towns at risk of property prices crashing 25%: SQM Research
- Australian house prices could rise 7% in 2013 if eurozone holds together: SQM Research
- Perth surpasses Sydney as best-performing hotel market: Dransfield
- Melbourne’s eastern suburbs having more auction success: REIV
- Offshore funding pressures ease but banks now more reliant on customer deposits for mortgage lending: RBA
- South-west Sydney mortgage borrowers lead RBA's 15 most vulnerable localities
- RBA says eschewing debt helps handle house price falls: Tweet of the day
- St George Bank cuts three-year fixed-rate mortgage to 5.49% per annum
- Mudgee leads list of 10 top-performing NSW housing markets with prices up 7.44%: Residex
- Former NRL star and rich lister Jarrod McCracken considers appealing his bankruptcy
- RBA to cut rates to ensure economic growth as government commits to budget surplus: AFR’s Alan Mitchell
- Commercial leasing: Godfreys takes warehouse space in Toombul, Brisbane
- Government mortgage financier not exposed to low-doc risk: AOFM chief executive
- The eight lenders that have cut variable mortgage rates since the RBA's August meeting
- House prices to surge 15% by late 2013 as rates fall 100 basis points: Australian Financial Review’s David Bassanese
- Mirvac chairman James MacKenzie volunteers for board re-election to take on doubters
- Westpac undercuts major rivals with fixed rate cut
- Darwin the only housing market currently in upswing, but Brisbane and Perth recovering: HTW
- Big four banks reliance on mortgages and 'elevated; house prices a risk: IMF
- Grocon to sue union over blockade of Melbourne building projects
- RBA to resume cash rate cuts in October, followed by November and one in March quarter: Westpac’s Bill Evans
- Mystery big four bank Mozo home loan deal no longer available: Spokesperson
- Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast show no signs of turnaround as more homes worth less than purchase price: RP Data
- BWP Trust adds to bulky goods property portfolio with $27 million Gladstone home centre acquisition
- Fly-in-fly-out workers preventing overbuilding of houses and infrastructure in mining towns: RBA research paper
- No investor appetite for premises of Melbourne laneway café Oli & Levi despite revival in food-sector leases in CBD
- Findings from inquiry into Rockhampton wooden deck tragedy likely to change landlord inspection requirements
- Bankmecu cuts variable green home loan rate to 5.79%
- Sydney rental vacancy rate rises to 2.7% in August, with middle and outer suburbs favouring renters
- Commercial hammer prices: Wangaratta Hungry Jacks sells on 5.9% yield
- Mozo ‘mystery’ big four home loan discount deal remains a mystery for some
- Avalanche of foolish federal and state government decisions hurting fragile property markets: John Edwards
- NAB bank premises in Hurstville sells for $9.01 million
- Steve Keen's Debunking Economics website intro subscription price to end and rise to $40 a month
- Australian fund advised by US commodities trader Jim Rogers buys 11% of rural property owner PrimeAg
- RE/MAX global online phishing and rental scams spread to Australia
- The RBA should not cut rates, says Christopher Joye: Tweet of the day
- Westpac’s Bill Evans and HSBC’s Paul Bloxham favour November rate cut – AMP’s Shane Oliver sticks with October
- St George Bank cuts one- and two-year fixed rates to 5.49%
- RBA has 'ample scope' to cut the cash rate further and with impact on mortgage lending rates: Guy Debelle
- Room for rate cut as housing sector conditions remain 'subdued': RBA September minutes
- ANZ changes rate cut call to forecast October and November RBA cash rate cuts with possibility of single 50-basis-point cut
- Citibank cuts fixed rates: a guide to the lowest fixed and variable rate offerings
- Brisbane Chifley at Lennons Hotel acquired by Singapore hotel group for $57 million
- Onthehouse to take full ownership of John Edwards' Residex business
- Commercial leasing: Outdoor store Anaconda rents bulky goods space in Geelong
- Little to entice sub-$300,000 investors in Melbourne, but 'brick veneer' is the word in regional Victoria: HTW
- New government incentives for first-home buyers could create mini-boom in prices: Selling Houses Australia’s Andrew Winter
- Brisbane units market heading into downswing on property clock due to too many off-the-plan projects: Michael Yardney
- Fixed-rate home loan inquiries surge as lenders continue to cut fixed-rates: RateCity.com.au
- Sydney housing crisis deepens as outer suburbs fall further behind on new home building targets: McKell Institute
- Rural property owner PrimeAg attracts rumoured US interest as business for sale signs go up
- Odds of October RBA cash rate cut increase, but November still most likely: ANZ
- ANZ leaves variable mortgage rates unchanged following independent monthly review
- Shane Oliver praises God for Ben Bernanke’s handling of US economy: Tweet of the day
- Mozo offers borrowers up to 1% discount in gimmicky ‘mystery’ variable home loan deal seemingly through Commonwealth Bank
- Strong spring selling season ahead for inner and middle Melbourne suburbs if supply remains constrained: Wakelin Property
- WA and Queensland housing markets to get demographic boost, but four years of cloudy skies for Victoria: BIS Shrapnel
- New housing construction recovery a year off and will be uneven: BIS Shrapnel's Frank Gelber
- Two more rate cuts likely in this cycle, but Victoria to miss out on next phase of housing growth: BIS Shrapnel’s Frank Gelber
- Commercial hammer prices: Stockland seeks $2 million for three Gold Coast development sites
- From Potts Point to the central coast: 17 property investment options in NSW for under $300,000: HTW
- No Australian housing crash, but market could stagnate for a decade: Residex’s John Edwards
- Unit starts boost residential construction in June quarter but house starts fall to 11-year low: ABS
- Strong bounce in house buying sentiment as overall consumer sentiment remains flat: Westpac
- Canberra house prices fall 5% in June quarter as nationwide prices are up 1.4%: REIA
- Queensland investors to be worse off under higher transfer duty rate for $1 million-plus purchases
- Incoming Mirvac CEO Susan Lloyd-Hurwitz to start November 5 as board backs chairman James MacKenzie
- Buyers sought for Challenger’s Kings Cross Centre below iconic Coca-Cola sign with $25 million expectations
- The $15,000 Queensland first-home owner construction grant: What first-home buyers need to know
- New 'most generous' Queensland $15,000 first-home buyers new home grant to begin tomorrow: Treasurer Tim Nicholls
- ME Bank cuts one- and three-year fixed rate to 5.39%
- Mirvac’s legal battle with Nathan Tinkler over Newcastle industrial land sale deferred to September 18
- Brisbane unit prices up 3.8% in sluggish June quarter but mixed-bag of results for apartment development hotspots: REIQ
- Institutional investors pressure embattled Mirvac chairman James MacKenzie and board over decision to replace CEO
- Brisbane entrepreneur Vaughan Bullivant lists extravagant Scarborough house next door
- Commercial leasing: Gelato operator Gelatissimo leases in Toowoomba
- 'Short fuse, big bang' digital change coming to real estate sector: Deloitte
- Logan City estate agent fined $10,000 for rental trust account breaches
- Stephen Koukoulas suggests urgent rate cut needed as mining jobs go: Tweet of the day
- Home loan approvals fall 1% in July: ABS
- Queensland set to follow NSW by scrapping $7,000 first-home owners' grant in favour of $15,000 handout for new home buyers
- Abigroup executives stood down as Lend Lease investigates accounting 'discrepancies' on two road projects
- Fixed versus variable mortgage conundrum for borrowers as major banks differ on 2013 cash rate outlook
- Fixed or variable: What mortgage interest rates the major banks are offering borrowers
- Street performers and tram advertising help Jones Lang LaSalle win at REIV commercial marketing awards
- Borrowers should shop around for best mortgage broker, not just the best loan: Broker
- Apartment building leads further contraction in construction sector in August
- ASIC’s battle with banks over Storm Financial collapse to resume on Monday
- A year on, Adelaide property clock still stuck in decline: Herron Todd White
- Novotel St Kilda snapped up by Greg Shand's Barana Group
- Moranbah and Port Hedland unsustainable 'single-industry' mining boom hotspots: Westpac
- Mining darling Moranbah tops list of regional Queensland towns where it is cheaper to buy than rent: RP Data
- Commonwealth Bank cuts fixed rate mortgage offerings
- John Singleton-backed Riversdale Group adds Marlborough Hotel in Newtown to $85 million pub portfolio
- August jobs data no 'smoking gun' for RBA cash rate cut: CommSec's Craig James
- Former director of mortgage broking firm hit with $7,500 civil penalty for operating without a credit licence
- Shopping centre landlords forced to discount leases to attract new tenants
- Macquarie Group to let the light shine into Martin Place headquarters with $83 million makeover
- Plenty to buy on the Gold Coast for under $300,000 but not much on the Sunshine Coast: Herron Todd White
- Lower rates and conservative mindset drive fixed-rate demand to one in five home loans in August: Mortgage Choice
- Dimboola leads the regional Victorian suburbs where it is cheaper to buy than rent: RP Data
- Commercial hammer prices: Glen Iris strata offices sell for $1 million plus
- White-collar job anxiety may be more imagined than real, new global report suggests, as we head into busy spring selling season
- At least one more RBA rate cut tipped by economists for the year, with focus on China and exchange rate
- Online residential listings rise 1.5% in August to 373,510, led by Melbourne, Sydney and Canberra
- Commercial leasing: Electricity provider Jemena leases in Melbourne
August 2012
- Mount Tamborine in Gold Coast hinterland top-performing regional housing market in July: Residex
- Mount Isa and Mudgee rents rocket 25% over past year: 15 double-digit rental growth locations
- Commercial hammer prices: Malaysian family pays $14 million plus for South Melbourne office tower
- Peet profits fall 75% in 'challenging year' as residential lot sales decline
- Woolworths confirms plans to sell up to $1 billion worth of shopping centres
- Queensland the only bright spot as new home sales fall 5.6% in July: HIA
- Melbourne trumps Sydney on office investment sales activity but not on short-term outlook: Colliers International
- Government leases draw offshore investors to Canberra in strong six months of CBD office investment: Colliers
- ASIC clamps down on misleading lender advertising and unlicensed mortgage brokers
- Commercial leasing: Sydney’s Furniture & Bedding signs $350,000 lease
- New cars, $10,000 cheques and free home size upgrades: Six spring incentives from house-and-land developers and builders
- Lowest rate home loan offerings from 5.44%: Fixed and variable as of August 27
- No takers for Burrawang Café in Southern Highlands as reverse auction stops at $1.5 million
- Russell Island in south-east Queensland leads list of least resilient suburbs: RP Data
- Bondi Beach ranks second among Australia's most resilient price suburbs behind Spence in the ACT: RP Data
- Selling the house by owner gets new website advocate assisting the DIY challenge
- Selling the house by owner gets new website advocate assisting the DIY challenge
- McGrath Estate Agents racks up 667 ‘likes’ on new corporate Facebook page
- House prices may have stopped 'gentle decline' and households in 'good shape': Glenn Stevens
- Housing affordability at highest level since September 2009, led by improvements in Perth and Adelaide: HIA/CBA index
- Baillie Lodges reveal ribbed modernist addition to proposed boutique hotel in Victorian-era The Rocks in Sydney
- Wealthy property investors facing tax scrutiny as ATO launches new tax compliance guide
- Inner Brisbane apartment market picks up as Devine reports 90% of Hamilton Harbour towers sold out
- Benign but in the black: Mortgage Choice CEO Michael Russell's call on mortgage and housing market
- Refurbished 7-Elevens service stations to tempt Sydney property investors with $150,000-plus rents
- The je ne sais quoi of why Australians are investing in French property
- Nine pieces of wisdom for finding and investing in property hotspots
- Commercial hammer prices: Sunshine Coast shopping centre sold for $15.7 million
- Property investors still striking gold in Queensland’s Bowen Basin, but many markets stagnate: RP Data
- Slowdown to hit mining boom towns as Roxby Downs rents up 27% over past 12 months: RP Data
- Headwinds for Roxby Downs property investors as BHP's Olympic Dam expansion cancelled
- Many Melbourne developers not building the right type of new housing: Monique Sasson Wakelin
- Topshop to open third Melbourne outlet in Myer Emporium
- Bill Evans and the rate cuts ahead over next six months: Tweet of the day
- US doomsday forecaster Jordan Wirsz now prefers to keep Australian housing crash predictions to himself
- No white-collar recession as rich and middle class keep up with mortgage payments: Fitch Ratings
- Nelson Bay and Budgewoi on NSW coast still most delinquent postcodes in Australia: Fitch
- Melbourne land blocks dip below $200,000 but no dramatic falls expected: Oliver Hume
- 'Stapling' of REITs creates riskier investment approach: RBA seminar paper
- Cedar Woods notches up 200 sales at Williams Landing and 22% rise in full-year profits
- Darwin delivers investors double-digit house and unit price growth for past decade: Residex
- Housing market weak but showing 'tentative signs' of pick-up: RBA August minutes
- From 5.44%, the lowest rate home loan offerings: fixed and variable as of August 21
- Mirvac doubles profits, with strong contributions from Glebe's Harold Park
- Battlers and the beach - Campbelltown and Pittwater units strongest Sydney rental markets
- Commercial leasing: The Leather Doctor takes space on the Gold Coast
- Property bear Steve Keen to launch $25 per month subscriber-only economics website with Q&A opportunity
- Gladstone house price growth stalls in June quarter, but double-digit growth in some suburbs: REIQ
- SMSFs are right to be cautious on investing in property: AMP’s Shane Oliver
- SMSFs are right to be cautious on investing in property: AMP’s Shane Oliver
- Less than a third of consumers expect RBA rate cut in next 12 months: Westpac consumer survey
- Australian house price down 2.1% over past year but still 36% overvalued: The Economist magazine
- Inala houses the cheapest among 35 suburbs priced under the $500,000 Brisbane median: REIQ
- Bulimba joins Brisbane’s exclusive million-dollar suburb club, helped by prestige waterfront sales: REIQ
- Speculation surrounding News Ltd’s mooted 100% acquisition of REA Group
- Meriton looking to encourage off-the-plan buyers with stamp duty savings
- Westfield Sydney group's most valuable but Wollongong and North Rocks suburban malls delivering highest returns
- Banks 'negligent and reckless' with low-doc loans: Denise Brailey in Senate testimony
- Mitre Tavern sells for $6.25 million to private investor
- House price correction 'modest and orderly': ANZ boss Mike Smith
- The challenges Mirvac will face after two departures from its board
- Lion Advantage loses financial services licence and CEO David Hickie banned by ASIC for two years
- REA Group says market contraction to blame for drop in realestate.com.au agent numbers as profits rise 29%
- Battery Point easily edges out Mount Stuart as Tasmania's most crowded suburb
- Mirvac's Susan Lloyd-Hurwitz the face of women in property
- Dexus acquires Brisbane’s “Blue Tower” as it sees office growth potential in Queensland capital
- Dexus reports 67% slump in profits, with mixed outlook for offices and warehouses
- Top Ryde Sydney shopping centre returns to market with $360 million-plus expectations
- Outer-Melbourne's Whittlesea, Wyndham and Cranbourne suburban fringe capture surge in new migrants: ABS figures
- Commercial hammer prices: Charter Hall buys Stockland mall for $164 million
- Mortgage broker David St Pierre suspended by 1300 Home Loans and facing dual investigations
- Consumers, tenants and mortgage holders lose confidence in August despite favourable economic factors: Westpac
- Commonwealth Bank reports record $7 billion full-year profits as its mortgage lending grows 4%
- Cinemas, mini-majors and food retailers the strongest performers in Westfield stores
- Westfield half-year profits up 31% but revenue down amid subdued retail climate
- Melbourne surpasses Vancouver as world’s most liveable city as Sydney drops to seventh
- Sydney CBD office landlords to hold more power from 2013: Jones Lang LaSalle
- NAB joins Lloyds TSB in forecasting higher RBA cash rate next year if economy remains strong
- Draft national licensing rules ignore REIA suggestions on education standards for agents
- Property Council seeks more details on proposals to scale-back tax depreciation allowances
- RateCity.com.au’s Michelle Hutchison delivers home loan warning: Tweet of the Day
- Mortgage off-set accounts double at NAB but profits disappoint in third-quarter update
- Provident receivers hopeful of restarting debenture payment by Christmas
- Refinancing reaches record level in year since exit fees ban: ABS
- Commercial leasing: Indian restaurant operator Masala Art leasing premises in Toowoomba
- Opportunities for smaller investors with Noosa shops and suites from $800,000 to $2 million
- 'No surprise' as first-home buyer enquiries down 19% in July: Loan Market
- Tweet of the weekend: Sydney auctioneer Damien Cooley has a run of good fortune
- RBA cash rate cuts provide “ballast” to "badly listing" housing market: Westpac’s Matthew Hassan
- Higher commercial yields to encourage offshore investment in Australia in second half of year despite withholding tax fears: CBRE
- Lenders must more accurately report mortgage delinquency data: APRA
- Australian mining project investment to peak in 2014: ANZ
- ANZ leaves mortgage rates unchanged at August monthly independent meeting
- Rising rents and lower vacancy rates encouraging property investment: RBA charts
- New home building could pick up in second half of 2012: RBA
- Pints on offer but few punters as Melbourne watering hole the Mitre Tavern passed in at $6.05 million
- While miners rush, savvy investors show patience when buying new apartments: Residex’s John Edwards
- From Mark Bouris to John Symond: Property market gurus glorified in website marketing gimmick
- Incentives on offer as Waterloo developers battle government timelines to entice buyers
- Senate banking inquiry submissions: Five telling charts
- One in three NSW company collapses are building firms: State building inquiry
- Property spruiker Henry Kaye facing ASIC showdown as he seeks to return to business
- Unpaid sub-contractors trigger NSW government reform inquiry into construction industry collapses
- Provident receivers set August date for information session and seeks managers for two mortgage funds
- Oracle commercial precinct on Broadbeach listed with $50 million hopes, with Gold Coast office vacancy rate at 21.5%
- Retrofitting the Empire State Building provides profit lessons for going green in Australia
- Commercial hammer prices
- Fixed-rate loans losing their appeal: ABS data
- First-home buyers at highest level in five months: ABS
- Mortgage approval numbers lift 1.3% in June, below expectations, but some encouragement for new housing: ABS
- Stockland’s Highlands residential community in Craigieburn to be 'blueprint' for all future projects
- Stockland profits slide 35%, with slower than normal response from cautious residential buyers to rate cuts
- New home building fell for 26th straight month in July: AIG/HIA index
- Melbourne property market 'flat as a pancake' but the worst is behind us: Monique Sasson Wakelin
- Next rate cut now more likely in November, says Westpac’s back-pedalling Bill Evans
- No longer 'subdued, 'soft', or 'declining', but 'firming': RBA’s Glenn Stevens has a new perspective on the housing market
- RBA decision to keep rates on hold influenced by improving capital city home values: RP Data’s Tim Lawless
- RBA leaves cash rate unchanged at 3.5% in August
- Lowest rate home loan offerings: fixed and variable as of August 7
- Foreign investments by sovereign wealth funds must have pure commercial basis: FIRB chairman
- ‘Shadow RBA board’ favours cash rate hold in August but split over future direction
- Increase in forced sales of retail strips and warehouses expected in second half of 2012: Colliers International
- NAB surges ahead of big four rivals on owner-occupier mortgage lending since February 2011 ‘break-up’: APRA
- Commercial leasing: Watch this space
- Gladstone property hotspot facing headwinds, with investor demand 'grossly outstripping owner-occupier demand': PRDnationwide
- David Devine’s Metro group wins approval for $80 million inner-Brisbane project The Plaza
- Developer Mirvac appoints Mulpha’s Greg Dyer as new finance director
- Whole outer-west Melbourne suburb – adjacent to dormant volcano – listed for sale, with subdivision developer interest expected to erupt
- With millionth new customer, NAB ‘break-up’ campaign causes red star to shine
- State by state government housing handouts: The new dates you need to know
- Demand for studio and one-bedroom units to increase as Australians go it alone
- Stephen ‘The Kouk’ Koukoulas a lonely voice as economists almost unanimous on RBA cash rate hold next week
- Melbourne and Sydney lead 4.9% monthly drop in online residential listings suggesting market may be entering "recovery mode": SQM Research
- Rate cuts flowing through to housing so no RBA rate cut next week: HSBC’s Paul Bloxham
- We still have a housing bubble, but rising debt unexpected – Steve Keen
- ATO issues tax guidance for home builders on determining status of workers and warns that many businesses still getting things wrong
- Pockets of weakness on Queensland coast and among self-employed, but mortgage delinquencies stabilising in Australia: Genworth
- House prices to fall further but even Steve Keen ponders the extent of any Australian property bubble
- Lend Lease partners with Crown on proposed Barangaroo South hotel
- First-home buyers in WA and Victoria drive number of mortgages arranged by AFG brokers to five year high
- Perth and Brisbane dominate record demand for CBD offices in first six months of 2012: Property Council Report
- Perth takes Sydney’s crown in latest Top 100 investment suburbs list: YIP magazine
- Concept of “foreign horde” responsible for driving up Australian house prices misplaced: Philip Soos
- Sydney market favours buyers except in outer West and Eastern suburbs: CBA-RP Data Home Buyers Index
- Twitter debate fires up (and old rivalries renewed) over whether Australian housing market has bottomed out
- Capital city house prices up 0.5% over June quarter led by Sydney gains: ABS
- Melbourne leads housing market up 0.6% in July, consolidating June gains with Sydney also strong: RP Data-Rismark
July 2012
- Home builder Metricon’s Queensland arm hit with $800,000 fine over misleading customers about pool and Bali hut inclusion
- Queensland and Tasmania the most extreme buyers’ market, with conditions balanced in Victoria and the ACT: CBA-RP Data
- GPT confident retail property portfolio will continue to deliver strong returns and rental growth
- No interest rate bounce as mortgage lending up just 0.3% in June
- Building approvals fall 2.5% in June led by big drop in Victoria: ABS
- Westfield, GPT best placed to deal with online threat but still facing concerns over vacancies and rental growth: Moody’s
- Property investor activity on the rise in mining states WA and Queensland: Knight Frank
- Lowest home loan rate offerings: Fixed and variable
- Finbar wins tender to build $300m serviced apartment project in Port Hedland
- Change in median prices don’t inform on housing market direction: RP Data-Rismark
- WA detached new home sales up 23.5% in June as unit sales help drive 2.8% national improvement: HIA
- Finbar shares in trading halt ahead of new project announcement
- AV Jennings says Federal political climate hurting residential sales as it forecasts financial year loss
- Economist don’t foresee RBA cash rate cut in August and rate cut also unlikely in September: Bloomberg survey
- Four more cash rate cuts still possible in current cycle: Macquarie Group's Brian Redican
- House prices: The latest June quarter data may not lie, but it’s rarely in agreement
- Queensland’s tropical Far North and Gold Coast housing markets worst at accumulating value: RP Data
- Lindsay Fox and Max Beck circling Melbourne’s St Kilda Novotel, but Perth and Brisbane the short-term hotel sweet spots
- Rates to go down, but not for a couple of months as RBA holds fire: John Symond
- St Kilda cinema complex seeking popcorn loving investor or savvy developer with $2.75 million to spare
- Quest to operate 131 serviced apartments in Kyren Group’s $100 million Adelaide CBD development
- Sales slow in the Sutherland Shire as Australand identifies several residential weakspots
- Tenders to close for premium Cabernet Sauvignon and Shiraz Coonawarra vineyards
- Brisbane house prices decline for eighth straight quarter but not yet at the bottom: Australian Property Monitors
- Chinchilla, Queensland: Mining hotspot or one underpinned by marketeers?
- Less than half of estate agents report revenue rise in 2011, with NSW agents best placed: Macquarie survey
- Melbourne house prices up 1.6% in June quarter to lead 0.4% national gain: Australian Property Monitors
- RBA likely to wait until at November to cut rates again following low June quarter inflation reading: CBA’s Michael Blythe
- Inflation up 0.5% in June quarter, slightly below expectations, leaving room for future rate cuts
- Gold Coast land sales rise 30% in June quarter but funding for new developments still “tight”: Prodap Report
- RBA’s Glenn Stevens pours cold water on mortgage stress fears with affordability at 10-year high
- "Family board meeting" convinced Matthew Quinn to step down as Stockland managing director next February
- August rate cut hopes dim further following upbeat Glenn Stevens "Lucky Country" speech: Commsec, ANZ
- Tweet of the day: Glenn Stevens' “lovely” speech gets thumbs up
- Australia has its own place in the world when it comes to housing affordablility: RBA’s Glenn Stevens
- Fewer ingredients now for mooted Australian house bubble pop than five years ago: RBA's Glenn Stevens
- Overseas buyer pays $22.75 million for Peet's Perth neighbourhood shopping centre on yield of 8%
- Investors need to be aware of cyclical ebbs and flows of inner city new housing projects like Beacon Cove: Monique Sasson Wakelin
- Wide ranging residential yields in Dixon Advisory’s US housing fund as shares debut on ASX
- New housing investment to pick up this year as mining influence expected to fade over next two years: BIS Shrapnel
- Economists more confident of RBA keeping rates on hold in August: Bloomberg
- News Limited papers to integrate print property sections with realestate.com.au brand
- Lack of leasing transparency in Victoria, WA and SA hurting overseas investment and smaller retailers
- Tourism helps Broken Hill shed its one-horse mining town investment status - as Deloitte's questions mining boom longevity
- Australian housing market insulated from Chinese slowdown risk by slow rate of new home building: Analysts
- Investors surging back in Brisbane, Perth and Sydney but Melbourne left out: APM
- Aussie cuts fixed rates to 5.79% following cuts by CUA and CBA
- Southern Highlands Burrawang café ‘reverse auction’ not the first, but still stirring up debate
- Townsville has best regional Queensland prospects with smaller Gold Coast recovery by 2015: BIS Shrapnel
- Broken Hill and Kalgoorlie no longer as risky for property investors but some mining towns unsustainable: Westpac
- Sydney unit rents up 10% in flat market as capital growth stalls: Residex
- Value of new home building declines for fourth consecutive quarter in March: ABS
- Property transactions to face increased ATO scrutiny in 2012-13
- 'Considerable doubt' raised over Provident Capital’s handling of investor funds: Court documents
- Commercial hammer prices
- From western Sydney granny flats to East Brisbane workers’ cottages: 15 eclectic investment opportunities under $500,000: HTW
- Alex Perry Residential redesigns Fortitude Valley, Brisbane, development as three-bedroom units seem to go out of fashion
- Rents expected rise to 5% in WA over next 12 months: NAB June Residential Property Survey
- Property management income rises to 42% of estate agent income: Macquarie
- Melbourne apartments too small, too expensive, but no housing crash coming: Monash's Bob Birrell
- Meriton boss Harry Triguboff eases into the Twitter revolution at age 79
- Investor pays $3,686 per square metre for whole floor in Fender Katsalidis Melbourne office block
- ASIC cancels credit licences of Sydney mortgage brokers Option 1 Mortgage and Dean Mooney Pty Ltd
- Perth house prices at three-year low after ‘surprise’ 4.26% fall in June quarter: Residex
- WA best placed for housing market recovery, Victoria the worst: First National survey
- Next rate cut likely delayed until December quarter: Westpac's Bill Evans
- Domestic economy stronger but housing market returns to “subdued” status: RBA minutes
- CUA cuts three-year fixed rate to 5.73%, undercutting big four banks
- Queensland estate agency Julies Realty fined $18,000 for $144,000 trust account breaches
- RUN Property sale to Rent Express moves closer with payment agreement
- Coalition victory could mean 'toe cutting' and spell bad news for investors in Canberra office market: BIS Shrapnel
- New housing construction outlook gloomy, but Queensland a bright spot: HIA
- Upwardly mobile Waterloo, Sydney, shows impact of urban regeneration
- Commercial leasing: Watch this space
- Bendigo and Geelong star performers in otherwise mixed bag for Victorian house prices: REIV
- Provident debenture holders’ meeting set for second week in August
- Melbourne weekend auction clearance rate picks up to 61% but private sales on the rise: REIV
- No Australian housing bubble, but tough times ahead for property market: David Koch
- ANZ leaves mortgage rates unchanged as economists remain divided on August rate cut
- Melbourne residential property listings rising four times faster than national average: RP Data
- Commonwealth Bank cuts fixed rates by 20 basis points to 5.79%
- Remarkable views from $416,000 in new Queenstown, NZ, development
- False dawn for NSW housing price recovery but mining state sentiment improves: NAB June residential property survey
- Demand for inner-Sydney apartments drives up rents while Melbourne rents stagnate: APM
- RBA cash rate could have been around 5% if banks had passed on full rate cuts: Philip Lowe
- Commercial hammer prices
- Perth steams ahead as best-performing CBD office market: Jones Lang LaSalle
- Construction begins on $25 million Quest Wodonga serviced apartment project, with seven more in the pipeline
- LJ Hooker to market commercial and residential property listings on Chinese portal Juwai.com
- Owner-occupier mortgage lending disappoints in May with 0.2% rise: ABS
- Liquidator appointed for collapsed NSW builder Reed Construction
- Sydney's rental vacancy eases slightly but property market still favours landlords: REINSW
- Construction of David Devine’s Madison Heights Brisbane tower begins with 87% of units sold off the plan
- Retail property to provide only modest returns to investors by 2022: BIS Shrapnel
- Variable-rate mortgage demand rises for third straight month: Mortgage Choice
- Australian housing market stabilising, with 5% capital growth expected to 2014: ANZ
- Commercial leasing: Watch this space
- Site for Eureka’s more golden sister tower in Melbourne’s Southbank listed with $25 million price tag
- Barangaroo South construction set to begin as Lend Lease raises $2 billion
- Oversupply figures paint distorted housing picture of outer-Melbourne suburb of Clyde amid Melbourne’s 55,000 listings
- Certainty of August rate cut dims as economists home in on 3% cash rate forecast by June 2013
- Northern Territory government extends $10,000 new home bonus to December 31, 2012
- Collapsed Provident Capital debenture holders shocked as 85% of loans were six months or more in arrears
- Apartment construction activity records sharpest fall in 10 months in June: AIG/HIA construction index
- Provident Capital signing on new mortgage fund investors with 9% plus on offer in months prior to receivership
- ASIC warns mortgage lenders over misleading advertising
- Commercial hammer prices
- Sony Bank online mortgage lending could be profitable in Australia: Nomura
- Fund manager and mortgage lender Provident Capital placed in receivership following court order to protect small-time investors
- Rate cuts and schoolkid bonuses help lift retail sales by 0.5% in May: Westpac
- Fewer Gen Ys expect to ask their parents for help in buying their first home: RaboDirect
- Perth and Brisbane to be next hubs of commercial development after national sales investment decline: Jones Lang LaSalle
- Westpac still expects three more RBA cash rate cuts by end of the year
- No sign RBA is predisposed to cut rates soon: Macquarie’s Brian Redican
- RBA cash rate holds signals it is still gauging impact of previous rate cuts: RateCity
- ING Direct to offer cheaper rates to new borrowers who can provide 20% deposit
- RBA leaves cash rate on hold at 3.5%, noting housing market remains subdued
- Don’t crack open the bubbly yet on housing market recovery: John Symond
- Victoria leads 27.3% resurgence in building approvals in May: ABS
- Tokyo-based Sony Bank investigating online mortgage lending in Australia
- Investors Club reaches confidential resolution with former clients over Gold Coast apartment purchase
- RBA should raise interest rates following June rate cut mistake: Warwick McKibbin
- Rise in property prices coinciding with more confident home buyers and investors: Mark Bouris
- Commercial leasing: Watch this space
- The 12 twists and turns in the RBA interest rate debate in a year of economic turmoil
- ‘Militant NIMBYism’ from Mosman to Bondi ruining development of Sydney housing market: McKell Institute's 41-suburb hit list
- Refinancing borrowers take advantage of competitive market in June: AFG
- Rate cuts help housing market recover in June with 1% rise in capital city dwelling prices: RP Data?Rismark
- End of NSW stamp duty concessions will create a short-term sales vacuum: Meriton
- June 30 buyers took advantage of stamp duty concessions, boosting NSW off-the-plan sales for Crown V
June 2012
- August awaits as economists unanimous on no RBA cash rate cut at July meeting: Bloomberg survey
- Mortgage lending growth slumps to new record low in May despite 50-basis-point cash rate cut: RBA
- Australia ranked third most transparent real estate investment market but loses top ranking to US: Jones Lang LaSalle
- Melbourne auction clearance rate back in step with consumer confidence: REIV
- End of financial year: ATO puts out tax guides for property investors and real estate employees
- RBA to leave cash rate on hold next week with one more cut likely this year: HSBC’s Paul Bloxham
- Mortgage delinquencies rise marginally in first quarter, but rate cut forestalled higher increase: Fitch
- Camera-shy investors to bid online for The Block 2012 South Melbourne terraces
- May 50 basis point cash rate cuts deliver little fillip to new housing market: HIA
- Mount Waverley IGA with lucky 88-dollar bids sells for $600,000 above the reserve
- Banks willing to finance off-the-plan first homes but buyer must take valuation punt
- Commercial hammer prices
- Melbourne auction sales down 19% on same time last year: REIV
- Brisbane high-rise apartment sales down 31% in May quarter: Midwood
- Thrifty taxpayers plan to use tax refunds to pay off home loan and credit cards: Bankwest survey
- Hong Kong’s Shangri-La group picks up second Australian hotel in a week with $48 million Brisbane Holiday Inn purchase
- Mirvac looking to build residential communities for mining towns in regional Queensland and WA
- Only lazy people stick with undiscounted standard variable mortgages: John Symond
- US house prices rise 1.3% in April, with San Francisco and Washington the strongest performers: Case-Schiller index
- Sydney house prices up 2% in May as unit supply issues impact on national recovery: Residex
- Queensland to introduce owner-occupier stamp duty cuts from July 1 as other state schemes come to an end
- Housing market worries not keeping me up at night: RBA assistant governor Guy Debelle
- Canberra’s very green Nishi office block 80% leased as demand for premium office space rises: Colliers
- Melbourne a better market for aspiring buyers than investors: Monique Sasson Wakelin
- Non-bank lender Homeloans Limited completes purchase of Refund Home Loans network and with 54 brokers signing up
- Commercial leasing: Watch this space
- No Melbourne house price growth for next few years as buyers disappear: REIV
- Ray White Group CEO Dan White joins board of realestateView.com.au
- Melbourne not yet becoming Manhattan, with percentage of apartments falling: ABS census 2011
- Melbourne residential property market to struggle as ‘stars align’ for Sydney and resources states: BIS Shrapnel
- Sydney Shangri-La Hotel sells to Hong Kong Shangri-La Asia group for record $352 million
- Westpac and KPMG to take up more than 70% in two of Lend Lease’s Barangaroo South towers
- Completion of FKP’s apartment project Aerial in Camberwell Junction delayed
- Mortgage stress levels rise most since 2006 in WA and Queensland: ABS census 2011
- Number of expelled mortgage brokers doubles to eight in past year: MFAA
- Monthly mortgage repayments up 38% to $1,800 per month since 2006: ABS census 2011
- Renters paying 50% more a week in rent since 2006 with increase in proportion of households experiencing rental stress: ABS census 2011
- Proportion of people living in apartments and townhouses rises: ABS 2011 census
- Government to introduce withholding tax increase as separate bill
- Commercial hammer prices
- Asian investors interested in five-star Gold Coast Ruffles resort
- Finbar upgrades profit guidance following strong East Perth apartment sales
- Improved operating environment for WA estate agents in 2012: REIWA’s David Airey
- New home construction continues to slide, with starts down 7.8% in March quarter: ABS
- One in five Queensland and WA real estate offices made a loss in 2011: Macquarie Benchmarking Report
- Treasury’s doubling of withholding tax ‘flawed and economically harmful’: Property Council
- Brisbane’s Art Deco Tivoli nightspot up for sale and could be potential residential development site
- South Melbourne terrace sale prices: A guide for The Block 2012 contestants and June 30 auction bidders
- HSBC expects one more rate cut following RBA June meeting, but Westpac says minutes suggest three more by December
- RBA notes continuing decline in house prices despite low mortgage interest rates at June 1 meeting
- ASIC demands equal prominence for mortgage comparison rate in online mortgage advertising
- Little capital appreciation likely in six new Melbourne suburbs due to lack of transport: Monique Sasson Wakelin
- Residential vacancies at 1.8% nationally in May with Melbourne's landlords facing biggest challenge at 3.1%: SQM
- Jerry Pilarinos' Kefi Nominees set to sell Melbourne venue The Palace, formerly the Metro nightclub
- Commercial leasing: Watch this space
- ANZ and NAB steamrolling over CommBank and Westpac in owner-occupier mortgage lending
- Contractors must wait in line as Reed Construction prepares to sue NSW government following $70 million collapse
- More SMSFs borrowing from trust fund members to acquire property creating compliance issues
- More SMSFs borrowing from trust fund members to acquire property creating compliance issues
- Stamp duty handout expiry helps sell out first stage of V development in Parramatta
- Consumer sentiment swings towards greater rate cut anticipation: Westpac
- Bank of Melbourne cuts fixed rates and improves incentives for borrowers
- NSW Treasurer Mike Baird defends timing of changes to home buyer handouts
- Residential property investment outperformed all other asset classes for past 10 years: Russell Investments
- Property investors should not rush NSW purchases ‘purely for the incentive’: Aviate
- RateCity.com.au to lose CEO Damian Smith to Telstra venture capital opportunity
- Malaysian REIT pays $415 million for Marriott five-star hotel portfolio
- McGrath Mid North Shore agent Peter Chauncy named Australia’s top estate agent by Real Estate Business
- Melbourne urban sprawl to extend into six new suburbs over next 20 years
- Low rental vacancy rate ‘insulating’ Sydney residential property market against economic woes: CBRE
- Commercial hammer prices
- ‘Long, slowish recovery’ on the cards Australian property market despite rise in buyer enquiries: John McGrath
- Westpac uses rate cuts to push Bank of Melbourne challenge to RAMS discount brand
- 'Time to buy a dwelling' sentiment improves but unlikely to flow through to purchases: Westpac’s Bill Evans
- Asian buyer interest expected for Novotel St Kilda, with price expectations around $55 million
- Perth residential market poised for recovery, buoyed by mining boom: CBRE
- Sovereign director Michael Grochowski banned by ASIC for breach of financial services laws while investing clients’ monies in property fund
- Lower mortgage rates drive up NZ median house prices 5.4% for year to May: REINZ
- Julia Gillard rules out scrapping negative gearing tax provisions for property investors
- From St George’s 18-basis-point cut to ANZ’s 25 bps: a guide to standard variable mortgage rates
- Commercial leasing: Watch this space
- Three Croydon townhouses left in Silvan as June 30 deadline draws nearer
- CommBank passes on 21 bps rate cut to borrowers
- Westpac passes on 20 bps rate cut to borrowers
- Current rate cut cycle not aimed at creating ‘risky’ new housing boom: Glenn Stevens
- Mortgage lending up 0.2% in April with 2.1% rise in new housing loans: ABS
- ANZ passes on full 25 bps rate cut to borrowers
- Brisbane unit prices ease 3.7% but 17% wipe-out in Cairns and Whitsundays: REIQ
- A global interest rates guide as China rate cut to flow through to Australian property market
- Local syndicates competing with overseas buyers for high-yielding commercial property: Scott Keck
- ING Direct to cut variable mortgage rates by 20 basis points
- Replacing stamp duty with land tax needs debate: REIV
- Housing affordability improving but rental costs still at four-year high: REIA
- Brooks Reach estate developer gets playground lesson from school kids
- QT Mutual Bank passes on full rate cut, but major banks stay silent
- Fixed-rate mortgage discounts diminishing as variable rates play catch-up: RateCity
- Commercial hammer prices
- WA “rent to buy’ scheme ruled deceptive and illegal with other similar schemes facing investigation
- Low interest rates keep fixed mortgage demand high, but popularity of basic and standard variable products rising: Mortgage Choice and AFG
- Tasmanian Liberal senator joins chorus against doubling of foreign investor tax – but keeps quiet on Howard-era 30% tax rate
- Brisbane property market recovering but Gold Coast still struggling: CBRE
- Finally! RBA board acknowledges housing market is neither subdued nor soft but declining
- Bank of Queensland passes on 20 out of RBA's 25 basis points
- Decision to cut rates by 25 basis points will help spending and lift spirits: Mortgage Choice, RateCity.com.au
- RBA cuts cash rate by 25 basis points to 3.5%
- AFG processes highest volume of mortgages in three years in May
- Fund managers acquire nearly half of struggling Becton Property Group
- High-yielding investment opportunities for under $500,000 in NSW include western Sydney and regional areas: HTW
- Breakfast Point buyers cash in on NSW builders' bonus before it expires July 1
- Wins for Aussie, Greater Building Society and CBA at annual banking awards
- Commercial property offers yields as high as 11% but comes with risk: Colliers
- Residential developers struggling to access financing post-GFC: RBA
- Commercial leasing: Watch this space
- Banks relaxing LVRs and serviceability criteria but valuations still conservative: Sam White
- Fewer rental vacancies in Sydney middle suburbs than in the inner city: REINSW
- Sydney inner-city apartments to deliver better returns than Melbourne until 2019: BIS Shrapnel
- Emerald bringing sparkle to Albert Park for under $600,000
- Banks have pushed up their lending margins, but funding costs have risen: RBA
- St Hilliers resumes ACT and Queensland projects with Brookfield Multiplex named as possible buyer
- Capital city house prices fell 1.4% in May led by big fall in Melbourne: RP Data-Rismark
- Commercial property market 'bouncing along the bottom': Frank Gelber
May 2012
- Macquarie increases loans to property investors 33% since January: APRA figures
- Market value, not landlords’ hopes, should determine rent: McGrath
- RBA to cut rates by 25 basis points next week and reduce cash rate to 2.75% by year-end: Westpac
- Non-banks lose ground as record low mortgage growth continues in April: RBA
- New home approvals down 11% in April with big drop in WA: ABS
- Melbourne’s poorest-quality office stock has tightest vacancy rate: City of Melbourne report
- Lend Lease slams 15% withholding tax as Property Council fails to convince Wayne Swan to scrap it
- Regional centres Geelong, Ballarat and Bendigo offer best sub-$500,000 property investment opportunities in Victoria: HTW
- Banks considering alternative income sources when assessing mortgage applications: Smartline
- Commercial hammer prices
- Value of residential construction falls 2% in March quarter: ABS
- Australian dollar needs to fall below 90 US¢ to bring back expat residential property buyers: WBP
- Fixed-rate mortgage demand driven by cheap deals – but still off GFC peaks: Mortgage Choice
- High rental yields on offer in regional NSW towns Tamworth, Orange and Dubbo: PRDnationwide
- Melbourne urban renewal to slow and spread to the suburbs from 2014: Charter Keck Cramer
- Reserve Bank may put rate cut cycle on hold in June: Economists
- Low-rise receiver sales help drive 49% increase in Gold Coast apartment sales over March quarter: Colliers
- SMSF investors still making basic mistakes on property purchases as ATO cracks down on super ‘cheats’
- Commercial leasing: Watch this space
- Australia’s truffle capital, Manjimup, WA, has mushrooming housing shortage: HIA
- Ganellen yet to take over any Kell & Rigby building contracts
- RBA watchful of China industrial slowdown: Glenn Stevens
- Time running out for first-home bonuses and stamp duty concessions
- Four olive farms put up for sale by receivers with $20 million price tag
- St Hilliers founder says government owes it millions, but Reed Group government claim rejected
- Rental yields on the rise and a better option than cash and bonds: Janusz Hooker
- Falling dollar encouraging even more offshore investment in Australian commercial property
- Commonwealth Bank cuts fixed rates by 0.4 percentage points, but not three-year fixed product
- Lend Lease’s Docklands project Forté will be world’s tallest residential timber building
- Homeloans Ltd looking at other acquisitions following Refund deal
- Westpac mooted as Barangaroo anchor tenant
- May rate cut failing to stimulate mortgage demand: Loan Market
- Melbourne and Brisbane lead housing affordability increase to highest level since September 2009: HIA-CBA index
- Federal government to subsidise MFAA mortgage broker training
- ATO ruling specifies allowable repairs and renovations for SMSF property investors
- Clarity for SMSF property investors as ATO defines ‘single acquirable asset’
- New Victorian developer contribution system welcomed by industry bodies
- Record number of Melbourne apartments to be completed in 2013 followed by decline in 2014: Charter Keck Kramer
- Cash rate could fall to 3.25% by August: Westpac’s Bill Evans
- Commercial hammer prices
- Wayne Ormond's Refund Home Loans sold to non-bank lender Homeloans Ltd
- Mortgage refinancing at four-year high as non-major bank lenders pick up market share: ABS
- Australian housing market crash unlikely: Credit Suisse
- OECD warns of further Australian house price corrections but expects strong overall growth
- NSW government to take over management of 13 St Hilliers public housing projects
- Dark cloud risk for big four banks after GFC mortgage crisis escape: Credit Suisse
- Listed property returns strong in April but super funds heading for end-of-financial-year loss
- ANZ’s independent rate decision turning off customers: Roy Morgan
- Hotel occupancy rates to reach 68% by 2014, with Perth hotels forecast to outperform Sydney: Deloitte
- Fashionable Paddington with its quintessential Queenslanders leading Brisbane property market recovery: REIQ
- Silicon Valley property market ‘likes’ Facebook IPO as local real estate prices rise
- Commercial leasing: Watch this space
- New office trust to provide ‘tax-advantaged’ income and yields of 9% to investors and SMSFs
- No Australia-wide housing shortage: CSR’s Ross Sindel
- Zara, Apple and reviving cinemas among best-performing Westfield tenants
- Newcastle ALH pubs sell to Sydney investors on 7.9% yields but Doncaster’s Cherry Hill tavern passed in
- Four St Hilliers sites being built for Department of Defence to reopen today
- Dixon Advisory’s US property fund seeking extra $100 million ahead of ASX listing
- St Hilliers creditors’ meeting set for May 25 as hundreds of contractors still await payment on projects
- First Jerry Seinfeld, now Greater Building Society claims cheapest three-year fixed-rate loan
- Tax savings for property investors who take up HSBC interest upfront offer on fixed-rate mortgages
- Perron Group to acquire half stake in three Centro centres for $690 million, setting post-GFC commercial retail record
- Anxious wait for creditors and contractors as 30 St Hilliers projects worth $300 million stuck in limbo
- Melbourne’s Bourke Street mall rents trump Sydney’s Pitt Street mall as most expensive for first time in a decade: CBRE
- Charter Hall pays $96 million to complete 100% acquisition of Perth office tower
- Westpac, HSBC and ME Bank cut fixed rates: a three-year fixed-rate guide
- Commercial hammer prices
- North and South America best-performing prime global office market in first quarter of 2012: CBRE
- New Asian real estate website adds Australian commercial properties to listings
- Banks withholding part of RBA rate cut dampened consumer sentiment rise in May: Westpac’s Bill Evans
- With 640 new leases signed and rents up, Westfield records ‘modest’ sales growth
- Investor funds could flow into ‘safe haven’ Australia if eurozone collapses: former treasury secretary Ken Henry
- St Hilliers construction arm placed in voluntary administration
- Government fiscal policies not undermining rate cuts: Treasury's Martin Parkinson
- 'Continued weakness’ in housing influenced May rate cut decision but little guidance from RBA on future rate cuts
- Melbourne high-rise approvals to halve compared with last year as construction slows: Oliver Hume
- Commercial leasing: Watch this space
- McGrath Estate Agents to expand into Brisbane market
- Fixed-rate mortgage demand reaches four-year high: ABS
- No imminent recovery in home building: RBA
- New online investment property search from homesales.com.au prioritises financial strategy alongside location
- Mining states lead rebound in demand for owner-occupier mortgages in March: ABS
- ACCC allows Aussie and Mortgage Choice to require MFAA membership
- Tasmanian vendors to face higher disclosure requirements
- Just two lenders pass on full rate cut: May 2012 to standard variable mortgage rates
April 2012
- Commercial leasing: Watch this space
- ANZ interest rates calls independent of the RBA a public relations disaster that won’t last
- Five out of six Queensland-based 7-Eleven service station sell as one further Melbourne store listed with $2.5 million hopes
- Jobs and pay under threat from proposed union changes to real estate commission system: Industry body
- The RBA’s biggest interest rate cuts: a timeline since 1990
- Sun breaking through property gloom as Melbourne and Sydney markets show signs of revival: APM
- Walkability appeal growing as Carlton apartment project Bravo promotes high ‘walk score’
- Perth house market bottoming out at six o'clock: Experts
- Darwin house market at five o'clock, with potential for quick movement: Experts
- Canberra house market at 5.30 amid uncertainty: Experts
- Rise in demand for barely utilised Queensland building boost comes too late
- Chinese mining tycoon beats Clive Palmer to acquire Lindeman Island, with plans to redevelop
- Perth unit market at six o'clock, with experts fairly bullish
- Darwin unit market at five o'clock, but could pick up: Experts
- Canberra unit market at six o'clock with strong demand for new stock: Experts
- Buyers sold on Elsternwick, with highest auction clearance rate in Melbourne in March quarter: REIV
- Inflation reading gives RBA the rate cut green light it never really needed
- RBA interest rate cut of 50 basis points possible after very low quarterly inflation of 0.1%
- Mining states lead rise in mortgage inquiries, but NSW falls: Veda
- Sunland lists Gold Coast’s Palazzo Versace after company profits slump
- Valad’s 575 Bourke Street listing to test Melbourne CBD office market
- Queenslanders have one week left to secure $10,000 building boost
- Time running out for incentives from builders and developers, with Convesso Concavo offer the next to expire
- Rams, Bank of Melbourne and St George undercut parent company Westpac on fixed rates
- Mark Bouris and John Symond slam Treasurer Wayne Swan for allowing major banks to dominate mortgage market
- Quarterly inflation number will decide May RBA interest rate cut: Economists
- Wagga Wagga rental market still oversupplied despite flooding of 250 homes: PRDnationwide
- Small Victorian lender Collins Home Loans undercuts major bank mortgage interest rates
- Hobart housing market at three o'clock and in virtual hibernation: Experts
- Mine closure expected to bring down rents and prices in Dysart, Queensland: Agents
- Low industrial vacancy rate in Melbourne encouraging speculative developments: Knight Frank
- Government housing grants and tax breaks rated important for housing as deadlines loom: API survey
- Victorian borrowers most comfortable with level of mortgage debt: ING Household Financial Wellbeing Index
- Real Estate Institute fears 2013 national licensing scheme could reduce agents' qualifications
- Kochie slams RBA as too slow in responding to economic downturn
- No variable interest rate decision from remaining big banks as St George trims fixed rates
- ‘Pay as you go’ stamp duty scheme needed for first-home buyers: REINSW
- Final piece of Brian Ray’s Port Douglas Bale dream sells for $750,000
- Standard variable mortgage rates guide: From Collins Home Loans to Citibank
- ANZ lifts rates again after keeping consumers in suspense until knock-off time: RBA interest rates aftermath
- RBA must cut rates to encourage more Australian buyers: Harry Triguboff – RBA rates decision countdown
- March jobs data weakens case for multiple rate cuts, but May 1 cut still expected: Economists – RBA rates decision countdown
- House prices to bottom out in 2012 and start rising from 2013: NAB
- Adelaide unit market at six o'clock, with prices bottoming out
- Adelaide house market at five o'clock and in a state of limbo: Experts
- International luxury brands drive up demand for retail space in Melbourne and Sydney CBDs: HTW
- Baillies to open luxury boutique hotel in The Rocks, with Great Ocean Road next on the agenda
- Investor appeal of St Kilda Road office market continues with Centuria $28 million sale
- Sydney most profitable residential market for developers as Melbourne costs rise: Report
- New housing investors on Ballarat fringe warned to be cautious: HTW
- Australians pay off their mortgages faster than Americans: RBA
- Brisbane unit market at four o'clock, with prices still falling: Experts
- Brisbane house market at five o'clock and yet to bottom out: Experts
- Oxygen Home Loans writes record mortgage business in March as average loan size hits $630,000
- Commercial hammer prices
- ME Bank says it will keep its mortgage rates on hold ahead of Friday’s ANZ announcement: RBA rate decision aftermath
- NSW leads national fall in owner-occupier mortgage demand in February: ABS
- Drop in consumer confidence in April makes May rate cut likely, with more to come: Westpac - RBA rate decision countdown
- Government property grants and stamp duty concessions: The expiry dates you need to know
- Shares just shade residential property as generating best return over next 12 months: Loan Market
- Kwok brothers deny wrongdoing following arrest by anti-corruption watchdog
- SA estate agent to keep real estate licence after 'serious neglect of duty'
- NewsCorp senior exec Hamish McLennan appointed chairman of REA Group
- Construction industry contracts for 22nd straight month in March due to weak residential sector: AIG/HIA
- We did not deal unfairly with mortgage customers: Bankwest and CBA
- Monthly inflation measure would have seen earlier rate cut: Paul Bloxham
- Government not contemplating changes to negative gearing: Wayne Swan
- Too many sellers, not enough buyers will keep market soft: John Symond
- Stockland finds success with $205,000 Sunshine Coast offering as big developers look to attract buyers with grants and incentives
- No link between bank lending rates and RBA cash rate: ANZ
- Regional Victorian towns dominate list of mainland hotspots under $300,000, but Melbourne off the menu
- Retail sales figures show divide widening between mining states and rest of country: Brian Redican
- Brian White labels housing market resilient as Ray White’s Australiasian March sales figures pass $2.4 billion
- Builders and retailers slam rates hold decision as RBA awaits first-quarter inflation data
- John Symond’s Aussie Home Loans buys National Mortgage Brokers
- From Westfield Bondi Junction to North Rocks: where shoppers are spending (or not) their money in Westfield’s vast retail portfolio
- Sunbury tops list of most traded hotspots, with more than one house sold a day
- Gen Yers who continue to rent have many property investment options under $300,000: John McGrath
- RBA governor's statement
- Rate hold decision no cause for borrower complacency: Mortgage Choice and RateCity
- RBA leaves rates on hold as soft house prices stabilise
- Demand for fixed-rate mortgages jumps to highest level in four years: Mortgage Choice
- South Australia agent faces expulsion after selling woman's home to family friend at a third of value
- Brisbane new apartment market well balanced but Gold Coast still struggling to find buyers: Midwood Report
- Top 10 Victorian capital growth hotspots, with Ivanhoe a shining star for past five years: REIV
- Building approvals have not yet bottomed out: Westpac
- Jobs figures more likely to influence RBA’s interest rate decision than building data: CBA
- Fixed-rate mortgage demand surges to record high: AFG
- February building approvals down 7.8% as residential construction outlook weakens: ABS
- Units outperform houses as market stabilises in March: RP Data-Rismark
- No rate cut in April, say economists, with Westpac and others forecasting May cut
- Perception of Australian housing price bubble keeping US RMBS investors away: Pimco
March 2012
- New home sales up 3% as mortgage growth flat lines: HIA and RBA
- Hong Kong property giant SKHP to operate as normal following arrest of joint chairmen
- Melbourne and Sydney inner-city suburbs the focus of super Saturday auctions weekend
- Court compels Rod Lambert to shut down anti-Ray White website
- Mortgage brokers call for rate cut and first-home owners’ grant changes
- Australian housing market still facing Japan- or US-style downturn due to deleveraging: Steve Keen
- Proposed airport noise restrictions puts $33.5 billion worth of new housing at risk: Urban Taskforce
- Sydney 18th most expensive housing market in the world, just below Manhattan: Knight Frank Wealth Report
- Harry Triguboff buys St Hilliers North Ryde site with plans to build 330 apartments
- Commercial property returns improving but still below pre-GFC peaks: RBA
- Private investor snaps up Collins Street Telstra store premises for $9.25 million ahead of auction
- Perth real estate agency fined for taking six months to refund rental bond following court order
- Commercial hammer prices
- John Symond urges 'out of touch' RBA to cut rates or borrowers will burst like tomatoes
- Households continuing to deleverage as house prices fall: RBA
- Commercial sales get to $1.4 billion aggregate in March 2012 quarter: CBRE
- Price falls the same but fundamentals different in US v Australia property outlook: RP Data
- Stockland and Lend Lease most exposed to weaker Queensland and Victoria residential land markets
- Self-funded retirees continue to snap up NSW 7-Elevens service stations, drawn by high yields
- With good visibility, Mirvac reaffirms full year earnings and profit guidance following Stockland downgrade
- Stockland downgrades earnings as wet weather delays Illawarra residential projects
- Queenstown in Tasmania cheapest of 601 hotspots
- Melbourne unit market at 4.30 in its cycle and not yet bottomed out: Experts
- Melbourne house prices at 4.30 in their cycle. with prices still falling: Experts
- Property periodically outperforming shares in super fund portfolios between 2004 and 2010: APRA
- Auction clearance rate picks up in Sydney and Melbourne ahead of pre-Easter super Saturday
- Overseas travel more damaging than online shopping to Australian retail: BIS Shrapnel
- David Jones retailing and property by the numbers
- Borrowing terms to remain harshest for residential developers until global situation improves: CBA head of credit
- Australian housing market sturdy and there is no bubble: CommBank’s Michael Blythe
- Humpty Doo, home of the Big Boxing Crocodile, among eclectic mix of 25 post-GFC hotspot kings
- A-REITs facing ‘slow burn to privatisation’ unless stock prices rise: Charles Moore
- Sydney unit prices at nine o’clock in their cycle and rising: Experts
- Sydney house prices at 5.30 in their cycle and still falling: Experts
- Mosman in Sydney and St Kilda in Melbourne to have most auctions this weekend in lead-up to pre-Easter super Saturday
- RBA says bank funding costs falling but by less than rate cuts
- First-home buyer confidence rises but buyers misinformed about deposit requirements: Genworth
- Hotspot: Sea-changers shining a light on Lighthouse Beach, Port Macquarie
- Rising petrol prices could cause house prices to fall but could prompt earlier rate cut
- Perth to lead growth in CBD office rents to 2016, but Melbourne risks oversupply: CBRE and BIS Shrapnel
- Docklands restaurant James Squire sells with 9.3% yield as investor appetite for Melbourne eateries grows
- Victoria to miss out on first-home buyer pick-up and churn factor: BIS Shrapnel
- Mining boom to create opportunities in property, but sector has not yet recovered from GFC: BIS Shrapnel’s Frank Gelber
- Retail REITs offer best investment potential: Goldman Sachs
- Steady auction results helped keep RBA rates on hold, but Europe threat leaves door 'ajar' to further cuts says Westpac
- Tiny drop in Chinese house prices in February, but further falls expected
- Refinancing trouble looms for borrowers with small deposits: RateCity
- WA, NSW and Queensland to lead rebound in residential construction from 2013: BIS Shrapnel
- South-east Queensland housing market recovering, with sub-$500,000 sweet spot: CBRE
- About 30,000 new self-managed super funds established in 2011: APRA
- Former WA real estate agent Ronald George Smith loses appeal against fine for failing to deposit trust monies
- Commercial leasing: Watch this space
- RBA governor Glenn Stevens assuages Australian housing market fears but acknowledges European crisis fallout could loom
- Ray White Gold Coast prestige property agent Michael Kollosche taking extended leave
- AustralianSuper to double property investment over next four years
- Leighton Holdings pays $300,000 fine over earnings downgrade infringement notices
- Low-rise units a better option for first-time investors than high-rise: WBP
- The 47 brightest localities for rental yields on Smart Investor's list of 601 suburb hotspots
- Mermaid Beach property deals still under Office of Fair Trading investigation
- Perth beats Sydney in flat February housing market as Wall Street Journal warns of housing ‘creaks’
- First-time Sydney investors should look at outer suburbs: Louis Christopher
- The 42 brightest prospects for price growth on Smart Investor's list of top 601 suburb hotspots
- Green loans on offer for Sydney office refurbishments
- Myer looking for improved lease terms from landlords as it reviews store viability
- Melbourne and Sydney auctions pick up in countdown to Easter super Saturday
- Dodgy estate agent with heartless motives slammed for casing Brisbane widow’s home before husband’s death notice
- Renters increasingly fearful of unemployment: Westpac
- Charter Hall Office REIT shareholders vote in favour of privatisation
- Home borrowers warned to avoid ‘bait and switch’ tactics: Aussie Home Loans CEO
- Perth unit rents rise as vacancies tighten to 2.3%
- Inflation not a threat and another interest rate cut needed: CommSec’s Craig James
- Hotspots: Tree-changing retirees driving up property prices in Woodend
- Commercial hammer prices
- Residential building starts plummet to lowest since GFC: ABS
- Slight improvement in housing sentiment defies drop in consumer confidence in March: Westpac Index
- Stockland to sell stake in industrial trust as reweighting towards retail continues
- Talk of housing market recovery premature: AMP’s Shane Oliver
- Hotspots: Villages like Elwood and Richmond better for investors than Docklands: WBP
- Falling US home sales puts more pressure on global recovery
- Perth seventh most expensive CBD office market in the world, Sydney falls to 10th: Knight Frank
- NSW leads drop in mortgage lending in January: ABS
- Ray White records strong February as Gold Coast apartment prices start recovery
- Refund franchisees still hoping to buy business as State Home Loans deal falls through
- Chinese and Indian design principles will shape Australia’s property markets: Bernard Salt
- Serviced apartments to outperform hotels in next three years: Atchison
- Telstra store premises in Melbourne CBD has $9 million price tag
- Stockland buys Centro Townsville directly opposite current Stockland centre
- Gladstone mortgage broker wins top gong at MFAA awards
- Ballarat mayor down on Matthew Guy's regional Victoria high-rise living proposal
- S&P warning of Australian housing market collapse lacks credibility: Michael Pascoe
- Parramatta’s tallest tower, Eclipse, 80% leased as construction nearing completion
- The lowest three-year fixed-rate mortgages as ANZ lifts to 6.34%
- ANZ leaves variable rates unchanged but lifts fixed rates by 20 basis points
- George Frazis named CEO of St George Bank
- AMP looking to fund more commercial property investments
- Pasadena on Pittwater listed for mortgagee auction
- Coogee a hotspot, and not just for reformed bad boys of rugby
- Household savings ratio at near 25-year high as wealth and mortgage growth decline: RBA charts
- Excellent opportunities for property investors in Melbourne: Monique Sasson Wakelin
- Mark Bouris takes aim at RBA as Gail Kelly warns of ‘frequent’ independent bank rate rises
- Interest rates will be lower in next decade than in recent past: Macquarie Group's Brian Redican
- Offshore investors expected to snap up CBD hotels after sector delivers 18% returns in 2011
- Commercial hammer prices
- ING Direct manages minimal mortgage growth in 2011
- Latest standard variable mortgage guide as Bank of Queensland lifts rates
- Dollar hurting tourism, especially Queensland coastal hotel occupancy: RBA
- Victoria leads marginal national increase in housing affordability: REIA
- Bank of Queensland lifts rates by 10 basis points to 7.46%
- Sixty-six new hotspots: Remote, inaccessible and with poor amenities, yet rents are skyrocketing in tiny Onslow
- Smaller renovation work on the rise: HIA
- One more rate cut likely by June: HSBC’s Paul Bloxham
- RBA seems set to sit on the sidelines for some months yet to come: CBA’s Michael Blythe
- Heritage Bank records 82% spike in inquiries as customers look outside the big four
- Rate cut still needed to help borrowers, says REIA
- 'Soft housing' mentioned in RBA statement on March rate decision
- RBA leaves rates unchanged
- Residential listings rise 10% in Sydney to 31,833 but stabilise nationally in February: SQM
- Resources boom to drive residential building recovery in NT, Queensland and NSW: BIS Shrapnel
- Hotspots: Toowoomba could be headed for recovery
- The millions banks make from raising interest rates by 0.05% and 11 other numbers you need to know
- Commercial leasing: Watch this space
- Demand for discounted mortgages wanes as lenders pull offers: Mortgage Choice
- More borrowers choosing safety of fixed-rate loans as buyer activity picks up: John McGrath
- Queensland towns dominate list of hotspot kings for three years
- Industry groups ask new Federal Housing Minister Brendan O’Connor for nationwide housing plan
- NSW house repossession orders down 6% in final quarter of 2011
- Six Queensland 7-Elevens to tempt commercial property investors at March auction
- Unfashionable Footscray and West Footscray among 2012 Melbourne hotspots
- Number of million-dollar Melbourne suburbs falls to 17: APM
- Tenant demand to meet surge in inner-Brisbane apartment completions: BIS Shrapnel
- AFG mortgage brokers defy gloom with 40% jump in sales
- Mortgage growth at lowest level in 35 years: RBA
- Building approvals down in January, led by 25% fall in Victoria: HIA
- Forget the landlord-tenant gripes: Stand by for a tradeable property ASX futures index
- Ganellen to take on Kell & Rigby projects as Reed Construction also faces difficulties
- Capital city house and unit prices: RP Data-Rismark
February 2012
- Melbourne leads slight rebound in capital city house prices in February: RP Data-Rismark daily index
- Two-thirds of borrowers to look beyond big four banks for mortgages: Citibank
- More first-home buyers, investors and overseas buyers keen on new property: NAB
- Residential construction down 1.8% in December quarter led by drop in WA activity: ABS
- Insurance changes needed to better protect consumers in disasters: Report
- Commercial hammer prices
- New home sales at 11-year low led by big drop in Victoria: HIA
- Remote mining towns dominate RP Data’s list of Queensland top-performing housing markets
- Sydney finance broker Nova Home Loans stripped of credit licence
- Mermaid Beach campaigner Rod Lambert arrested for stalking Ray White Queensland boss
- Self-funded renovations on the rise: Loan Market
- Print real estate advertising ‘highly relevant’: Fairfax
- Arncliffe leads Sydney suburbs on RP Data top 100 hotspot list
- CUA to offer home loans via Mortgage Choice and Smartline brokers
- Office portfolio helps Cromwell deliver 13% increase in earnings
- More borrowers refinancing, but they’re not happy about it: MFAA
- Property fund seeking $30 million for Melbourne Country Road headquarters
- Eight signs major banks are becoming more profitable
- Commercial leasing: Watch this space
- Housing affordability at near two-year high, led by Brisbane gains: HIA
- Renovation the main reason mortgage holders refinance: MFAA
- Hotspots: High yields and price growth in Moranbah, but best time to buy may have passed
- Economists unanimously tip rates to remain on hold until May: Bloomberg
- Former Refund franchisees and creditors to get 10¢ on the dollar in proposed sale
- Inner-Brisbane apartment market risks oversupply: Report
- No rate cut in March, but one more likely by June: HSBC’s Paul Bloxham
- Metro housing market sweet spot under $650,000: John Symond
- Luxe in the ’Loo selling well for FKP, but Victoria and Queensland drag the chain
- Banks must not take risks to achieve growth: APRA chairman
- Challenging year ahead for Illawarra and Newcastle industrial markets, but some bright spots: HTW
- Refund Home Loans to sell to State Home Loans
- RBA warns prudent mortgage lending vital in housing downturn
- Australia the target of Accor hotels expansion in Asia Pacific
- Woolloomooloo premises of Otto Ristorante and Kingsleys sell to global fund manager
- REA needs to embrace print media and watch out for competitors: Ted Pretty
- Commercial hammer prices
- Colliers takes the lead on global giving charity drive
- Economic tailwinds could prolong mortgage lending recovery: Mortgage Choice
- RBA acknowledges banks' higher funding costs
- Mobile phone stores ringing the till at Colonial First State shopping centres
- Fairfax’s planned Weekly Review deal ‘mind numbing’: REA boss
- Dixon Advisory’s US portfolio up to 101 properties as it moves further into New Jersey suburbs
- REA hit by Queensland estate agency contraction
- One in two new home owners looking to refinance: LJ Hooker
- RBA notes ‘signs of stabilisation’ in house prices in some capital city markets
- Mirvac’s off-the-plan sales jump 20% in second half of 2011
- Hotspots: Brisk unit sales and commercial property revival in Chatswood
- Lend Lease retail portfolio value up 6% in a year
- NSW 7-Eleven service stations expected to garner strong investor interest
- Melbourne median new lot size falls below 400 square metres: Oliver Hume
- Bendigo & Adelaide Bank profits fall 67% amid higher funding costs
- Commercial leasing: Watch this space
- Rate rises encourage borrowers to consider non-bank lenders: One Big Switch’s Lachlan Harris
- Fair Work claims estate agency paid Queensland salesman $100 for five months’ work
- Lend Lease residential pre-sales up 15% but settlements down in weak market
- Investors offered shares in New York’s Empire State Building
- Banks not giving out key home loan fact sheets: Choice
- Strong Coles and Woolies sales help prop up Charter Hall Retail REIT as profits fall
- Low-risk Australian property better than government bonds: UBS
- WA housing market recovering, led by coastal suburbs: REIWA
- NAB is keeping its promise - just: Quote of the Week
- The Block and The Renovators to square off, and Channel 31's Melbourne Property TV hopes to get a Logies look-in
- Refund Home Loans franchisees wait for any news of possible sale
- ANZ profits up 5.7% to $1.48 billion amid ‘challenging’ environment
- More agents putting their hands in the cookie jar as businesses struggle
- Downturn-defiant expats putting their $201,000-plus earnings into Australian property: HSBC
- Hotspot: Mining and transport links make Orange a sweet prospect for investors
- Disgruntled Victorian borrowers lead national surge in mortgage refinancing: ABS
- Perth vacancies tighten to 2.3% but no rental crisis looming: REIWA
- ING Direct and Westpac subsidiaries St George, Bank of Melbourne and BankSA push up variable rates
- CBA announces interim profits of $3.6 billion but highlights drop in loan profit margins
- Dexus yet to meet leasing target at 1 Bligh Street
- Westfield Sydney ‘changing the face of retailing’, but Bondi Junction the most valuable: Steven Lowy
- Westfield profits up 37%, with solid rental growth
- More choice likely among big four bank mortgage rates: Mortgage Choice CEO Michael Russell
- Property sector profitability and confidence improves, but construction falls further: NAB
- CUA and ME Bank leave variable rates unchanged: a guide to new mortgage rates as the dust settles
- Mortgage wars Groundhog Day: Mark Bouris and John Symond turn back the clock as they take on the banks
- Australia’s economic uncertainty, arising in Europe, to persist: RBA deputy governor Guy Debelle
- More borrowers will refinance their mortgages in wake of bank rate rises: RateCity
- Victorian apartment building permits up 42% in 2011: Building Commission
- First-home buyer mortgages up in December thanks to December NSW stamp duty deadline
- Investor opportunity: 53 suburbs where rent rises are beating inflation
- Owning a home still the best way to generate wealth: John McGrath
- Standard variable mortgage guide as CommBank, NAB and Bendigo lift rates
- Victorian sheriff knew Braybrook house had $630,000 valuation when it sold for $1,000
- Century 21 Australia boss Charles Tarbey to buy Century 21 New Zealand
- Investor alert: Where rental properties aren't keeping pace with inflation
- Westpac joins ANZ in raising interest rates
- Bank of Queensland challenges big four banks with promise to hold rates
- Sheriff selling $630,000 Braybrook house for $1,000 had duty to obtain fair price, court told
- Hobart’s Art Deco Mercury building listed for sale
- Stockland continues to focus on higher-yielding retail commercial property
- The latest property trend - higher prices for smaller blocks
- Bathurst’s Citigate Mount Panorama sold to Avi Rubinstein-Andrew Schwartz consortium in RBS sell-off
- Residential buyer activity picking up in south-east Queensland: Stockland
- Gold Coast property market turning around strongly as stock levels fall: Andrew Bell
- CBD offices to deliver 'extraordinary returns' in three to five years: BIS Shrapnel's Frank Gelber
- Roseville headlines 2012 Sydney unit hotspots, and Ryde makes another appearance
- Lenders passing on rate cuts to borrowers but not businesses: RBA charts
- CUA cuts fixed-rate mortgages to undercut major banks
- Australand profits down but late 2011 residential lot sales strong
- Banks unlikely to raise interest rates for home borrowers: RateCity’s Damian Smith
- RBA may not cut rates until May: Commonwealth Bank
- Effect of rate hold will be ‘benign’: Monique Sasson Wakelin
- Residential building to suffer from RBA's decision to leave rates unchanged: housing industry bodies
- Better global outlook, steady local economic growth and stabilising housing market help keep rates on hold: RBA
- RBA leaves rates on hold and dollar rises
- Sydney leads national decline in stock on market in January: SQM
- Marrickville ranks alongside Redfern, Naremburn and Ryde as PRDnationwide’s 2012 housing hotspots
- AMP to reopen unlisted retail property fund for first time since GFC
- Commercial leasing: Watch this space
- Investors buying off the plan in Perth's QIII
- Australian housing a Ponzi scheme and the housing price bubble will burst: Academic
- Mandatory mortgage broker association membership reasonable: National Mortgage Brokers
- Job ad increase could forestall February rate cut, says ANZ, as TAB odds ease
- US analyst Jeremy Grantham adjusts Australian housing price bubble predictions, so watch housing construction numbers now
- Rate cut would silence 'doomsters' and improve already high affordability: CommSec's Craig James
- Second-tier lenders and NAB big winners in 2011 mortgage wars
- Sydney vacancy rate eases in December, but REINSW predicts tightening in 2012
- US matches Australia with 4.7% drop in house prices in 2011
- February rate cut likely but not certain: HSBC
- Westpac cuts jobs as mortgage demand falls and won’t commit to passing on rate cuts
- US doomsayer Jordan Wirsz's predicted 60% drop in Aussie house prices 'silly': Analysts
- Mortgage sales up 40% in January year-on-year: AFG
- Housing construction could recover in late 2012: Deloitte Access Economics
- Adelaide commercial office market outlook 1990-2015: PCA
- Christopher Kent to replace Philip Lowe as RBA assistant governor
- Queensland building approvals up 25%, but national approvals fall: ABS
- ABS housing figures overly gloomy: JP Morgan
- Banks talk of withholding RBA cuts while fixed-rate mortgage demand falls
- Boom in office construction leaves Brisbane well placed but Sydney oversupplied: PCA
- December quarter housing data roundup: Four sets of statistics give divergent outlooks
- Divergent housing data raises more questions than answers
- Capital city house price slide slows in December quarter, with Melbourne worst performer: ABS
- Housing market sentiment up in December quarter, with NSW brightest: NAB
January 2012
- Cheviot finds potential buyer for Clare Valley Tullymore Vineyard
- Melbourne's housing price softness to remain in 2012: RP Data
- Dick Smith promises to undermine Woolworths if it sells his brand to foreign owners
- Mortgage lending growth fell to 34-year low in 2011: RBA
- Dwelling prices down 0.2% in December 2011, with Melbourne and Perth hit hardest: RP Data-Rismark
- Kochie sets his sights on estate agents and journalists in Queensland property 'catastrophe' stoush
- Australian banks worried about government intervention but not so much borrowers' credit risk: PwC survey
- Melbourne’s eastern suburbs popular with Asian buyers
- Commercial hammer prices
- Strong fundamentals mean there is no Australian housing price bubble: ANZ
- Indian mining group set to buy two Australian mines
- Hotspots: From fibros to McMansions, western Sydney attracting investor attention
- Mortgage applications up 23% in January: RateCity
- More than half of Fortitude Valley's new stock yet to find buyers
- Demographia figures 'flawed' but Australian cities unaffordable: RP Data's Tim Lawless
- Sydney and Melbourne more affordable than Demographia suggests
- Mildura and Shepparton most affordable regional areas in Australia: Demographia
- Chinese developer set to buy Sydney office block as more Asian funds eye CBD properties
- Mark Bouris tips three rate cuts in 2012
- Most Australians erroneously believe wind farms will hurt property prices
- Inflation result and global woes possibly put more pressure on RBA to cut rates
- Mixed messages in Melbourne's data as house prices increase slightly
- Victorian mortgage confidence plummets: ING
- Investors shun line-of-credit loans in favour of cheaper alternatives
- Chinese appetite for Gold Coast property soars to record highs in 2010-11: Colliers
- Sunshine Coast mayor slams Kochie for 'catastrophic' warning to property investors
- Sydney and Melbourne among the five least affordable cities in the world: Demographia
- Melbourne metro house prices 5.2% cheaper than a year ago: REIV
- Three offers on the table to buy Refund Home Loans
- ACCC reviewing compulsory mortgage broker industry body membership
- Three reasons why there is no Australian housing price bubble: HSBC's Paul Bloxham
- Kochie to property investors: Avoid ‘catastrophic’ Gold and Sunshine coasts
- Morgan Stanley pays $1.05 billion for Russian shopping centre
- Queensland and WA lead improvement in house price sentiment in January: Westpac
- Sydney unit prices up 2% in 2011, but Melbourne unit prices dive 5%: Residex
- Building approvals jump in November due to pick-up in units: ABS
- Dixon Advisory's US portfolio grows to 93 properties
- FNQ, Sunshine and Gold coasts dominate RP Data negative equity list
- Australian housing market set to recover in 2012: Residex's John Edwards
- Sydney house rents up $55 per week in six months, but Brisbane rents down: Residex
- Melbourne leads nationwide drop in house prices in second half of 2011: Residex
- Price, not rate fears, driving fixed-rate mortgage spike: UBS's Scott Haslem
- Warrnambool emerges, but Queensland's Gladstone still darling of top 50 investment list
- Mortgage approvals up amid increased first-home buyer and fixed-rate home loan demand
- Perth median house price up in December quarter to $465,000, first rise in almost two years
- One year after floods, Queensland property market showing signs of tentative recovery
- ME Bank connects with brokers as second-tier lenders gain ground
- ANZ keeps rates unchanged in first independent call
- Investors dry up as Dixon Advisory raises $31 million for US property fund in second capital raising
- February rate cut tipped to boost Australian housing market
- Queensland government to extend building boost until April
- CBA changes home loan ad after ASIC complaint
- Office and industrial sectors to lead commercial property growth in 2012: PCA-ANZ survey
- Australian property market confidence highest in resource-rich areas: PCA-ANZ survey
- Mining towns could be 2012 property hotspots: Terry Ryder
- John McGrath to retain seat on REA Group board after Sam White's departure
- Home loan key fact sheets just a good starting point for borrowers: Mortgage Choice
- Units lead 8.4% jump in building approvals in November: ABS
- Sam White quits REA board to focus on the family business
- RAMS eliminates mortgage application fees in January
- Major banks' mortgage dominance loosening as smaller lenders get a look-in: AFG
- Builders gloomy about year ahead: MBA
- New housing outlook bleak for 2012: HIA
- Sydney seventh best city for commercial property investment: Survey
- Harry Triguboff calls on banks to pass on rate cuts swiftly and in full
- A quarter of borrowers now choosing fixed-rate loans: Mortgage Choice
- First-home owner's boost could return this year: John Symond
- Less than a month remains for Queensland's underused Building Boost scheme
- Charter Hall Retail boss to lead restructured Centro
- Inner-Melbourne units under $750,000 best prospects for investors: CBRE
- Stockland seeking to power up new home market by paying buyers' energy bills
- Investigation into alleged price fixing on Mermaid Beach to continue in 2012
- Perth and Sydney prices to rise 5% in 2012: Angus Raine
- Charter Hall Office REIT reaches binding agreement on takeover bid
- Westpac has reported inaccurate mortgage book numbers for three years
- Sydney and Canberra best for investors in 2011: RP Data-Rismark
- ASIC eases mortgage broker training requirements
December 2011
- Ten fundamental reasons why prices won’t crash in 2013: Academics
- Fairfax pays $35 million for half of The Weekly Review
- Year in review: Centro and Charter Hall dominate year of consolidation for A-REITS
- Year in review: 2011 not a fine vintage for vineyards
- Commercial property will appeal to risk-averse investors in 2012: Centuria
- Queensland developers say overly conservative valuers to blame for sales failures
- St George and Bank of Melbourne cut fixed rates as trend for fixed-rate cuts slows
- Michael Matusik dismisses housing undersupply findings as 'spin'
- WBP adds South Australian valuer MGS to growing stable
- Westpac tips February rate cut
- Growthpoint snaps up new Fox Sports Sydney building in $290 million buying spree
- Frasers’ Central Park boosts offshore apartment projects to 20-year high: CBRE
- Wayne Ormond says mea culpa and cops serve from John Symond over Refund's collapse
- After mediation fails, Investors Club dispute headed for court
- Offshore investment in Australian commercial property at 20-year high
- Held up by red tape, developers want to deal with 'super councils'
- Melbourne rental market oversupplied: SQM Research
- Big banks have big investments in CBD office space in Melbourne and Sydney
- Chinese developer snaps up South Yarra site for $18 million
- Perth retail property market strong: Herron Todd White
- ANZ and Commonwealth Bank tip February rate cut
- Europe fears and housing worries among reasons for December rate cut: RBA minutes
- Toronto mayor pledges to abolish stamp duty
- Institutional investors launch class action against GPT Group
- Banks have no justification for withholding rate cuts: Academic
- Sydney office towers to become shopping destinations: Savills
- NSW Central Coast market struggling: Herron Todd White
- Big Pineapple ploughing begins as plans bear fruit
- Westpac Bathurst site sold for $2.12 million
- ASIC bans Melbourne mortgage broker for life
- ASIC suspends Equititrust's financial services licence
- Tough APRA regulation could push up interest rates: Ralph Norris
- Hotel investors can rest easy with improved satisfaction ratings
- Foreign investment in Aussie farmland on hold
- No such thing as an Australian housing bubble: Rory Robertson
- More pain for regional hotels as Chinese tourists prefer city over country: RBA
- ANZ denies carrying out APRA “stress tests”
- No banana smoothies, but ANZ to explain its new rates policy
- NSW stamp duty forecasts suggests strong housing market recovery by 2014-15
- South-east Queensland auction season ends on a high
- SMSF direct property investment at a three-year high
- Modest, patchy housing market recovery forecast for 2012: Monique Sasson Wakelin
- Asian buyers vital to Australian property market: Morry Schwartz
- Ray White posts best results in eight months and says Gold Coast office surprise star
- Australians spending more on housing: RBA
- Sydney October quarter median house and unit price round-up
- Perth October quarter median house and unit price round-up
- Melbourne October quarter median house and unit price round-up
- Hobart October quarter median house and unit price round-up
- Darwin October quarter median house and unit price round-up
- Canberra October quarter median house and unit price round-up
- Brisbane October quarter median house and unit price round-up
- Adelaide October quarter median house and unit price round-up
- NSW begins consultation on overhauling complex strata rules
- Melbourne property developer Mark Ronald Letten facing criminal charges over alleged unregistered investment schemes
- Barring a European banking collapse, house prices set to rise in 2012: SQM
- Ratings boost for Bendigo and Adelaide Bank as it joins the 'A' team
- Commercial hammer prices
- Aussie property investors being duped in US, but US Masters Fund not among them: Alan Dixon
- Australian home ownership dream fading: Roy Morgan
- Perth house prices declining at four times the national rate: REIA
- Investa Commercial Property Fund to buy half of 120 Collins in Melbourne CBD
- Our US investments are sound and well researched: Alan Dixon
- Investor interest in new housing fell 26% in October: ANZ
- Aussie fund's New Jersey US properties 'cheap and nasty': Monique Sasson Wakelin
- New house starts decline for seventh straight quarter: ABS
- Rate cuts will drive down mortgage arrears even further: Fitch
- Mandurah residents among those with most housing stress in Perth
- Fixed-rate mortgage boom ending
- McGrath posts record sales in November thanks to eastern Sydney deals
- Shopping Centre Council backs calls for relaxed retail zoning
- Commercial leasing: Watch this space
- First-time buyers lift October mortgage lending figures: ABS
- Thai sugar giant Mitr Phol seeks to take over 125-year-old Queensland sugar company MSF Sugar
- Relaxing zoning laws would help struggling retail sector: Productivity Commission
- Shepparton's Goulburn Valley Hotel sells for $6.6 million
- Unhappily perhaps, banks pass on full rate cuts
- St Albans Woolworths sells for $7.24 million
- Woolworths, Coles key to attracting Sydney retail investors: HTW
- Westpac brands deliver full rate cut
- RBA governor Glenn Stevens says cash rate is lower to offset bank margins
- New home sales recover ‘modestly’ in October: HIA
- Warren Buffett’s IBM play about ‘smart’ infrastructure, not high-tech stock
- All big banks follow ANZ's lead in passing on full rate cut
- ANZ to pass on full 25-basis-point rate cut to borrowers
- Major banks’ mortgage books soar as borrowers toy with swapping lenders
- Harry Triguboff's Meriton group to build 700 serviced apartments next year across Australia
- Mortgage minnows show up major banks on rate cuts
- Hefty residential rentals in the booming Pilbara rivalling the east coast's wealthy suburbs
- Commercial hammer prices
- Heritage Bank third lender to pass on full RBA rate cut
- Borrowers' anger grows as Big Four banks dither on passing on rate cut
- RBA charts: Investors and first-home buyers returning to the market
- High yields for 7-Elevens continue to attract investors
- Return to the '60s for Melbourne retail market: HTW
- Shareholders approve Cheviot Kirribilly vineyard sales
- Borrowers wait anxiously to learn if banks will pass on rate cut
- Bank of Queensland the first to pass on rate cut
- Europe concerns weighed heavily on RBA: Westpac's Bill Evans
- Slowing global growth, subdued credit growth factors in rate cut: Glenn Stevens
- Relief as RBA cuts rates by 25 basis points
- Increase in listed properties will drive property prices down further: SQM
- Regional retail property had a 'year to forget' in 2011: HTW
- Charter Hall share price jumps as trading resumes
- Valuers must diversify to survive: WBP
- Commercial leasing: Watch this space
- Mortgage broking franchises by the numbers
- Mining boom to push up Perth office rents over next decade: Savills
- Heather Ridout joins RBA board
- Centro starts trading anew
- Charter Hall Office REIT trading halted as it awaits higher Macquarie offer
- Banks expect rate cut soon, but no 2008-style cutting spree
- China’s property slump bad news for resources boom: ANZ
- Hotels outperform all other commercial sectors: IPD
- Queensland leads national fall in building approvals, despite boost
- AFG mortgage approvals at 33-month high as investors return to the market
- Centro restructure gets final nod of approval
- Major banks play down S&P ratings downgrade
- A third of NSW consumers more likely to buy housing if rates fall further: Mortgage Choice
- Gold Coast must turn to business, not just tourism, to survive: Harry Triguboff
- Australian bank shares up as global credit freeze averted
- Owner-occupier mortgage demand outpaces demand from investors: Westpac
- Dixon’s US property purchases: 10 highest yields
November 2011
- Pilbara mining rents: the seven most expensive WA boom towns
- Mining boom drives up NSW Hunter Valley rents
- Commercial hammer prices
- Rate cut will encourage first-home buyers and investors: Mortgage Choice CEO Michael Russell
- Brisbane house prices fall 10% over past year as Canberra only mainland city with rising market: RP Data
- Leichhardt and Randwick the epicentre of Sydney rental squeeze
- Harry Triguboff says interest rates must fall next week
- Dixon Advisory attracts 815 more Aussies to take a punt on US housing investment
- Europe worries and budget cuts intensify pressure for RBA to cut rates in December
- European debt crisis could hurt Australians' hip pockets
- Suncorp demonstrates smaller banks can compete with the majors
- Super funds' property allocation tipped to reach $350 billion by 2020: Charter Hall chairman
- Commercial leasing: Watch this space
- Gold Coast office market shows signs of improvement: HTW
- No changing course for Dexus as Darren Steinberg readies to step in
- Celebrity Apprentice saved Yellow Brick Road $50 million: Mark Bouris
- Demand for quality Adelaide office space to drive up rents
- Australian housing market more at risk than pre-GFC America: The Economist
- Sales of 7-Elevens during 2011 secure investors yields of between 4.6% and 8.5%
- Queensland dominates distressed property sales
- More than half of mortgage holders unhappy with lenders, but most find switching too hard
- Strata insurance premiums surge in wake of Queensland natural disasters, giving investors financial grief
- Bloomberg considering move to Sydney's 1 Bligh Street
- Franchise Council holds out hope for Refund franchisees
- First-home buyer interest in house-and-land packages rising: Stockland
- Prime Sydney residential market to fall further next year: Knight Frank
- One Big Switchers begin talking with mortgage lenders
- Western suburbs dominate list of Sydney housing stress
- NLG receivers to sell 20 pub leases
- Sydney the only capital city with rising unit prices: Residex
- Buying a house-and-land package: 10 key dates to keep in mind
- Commercial hammer prices
- Home building still in the doldrums, but renos picking up: ABS
- Stockland continues to head to affordable greenfields as it exits apartment market
- JP Morgan and other investment banks tip December rate cut
- Sydney office rents poised for rapid growth: CBRE
- Cromwell pays record $186 million for Fortitude Valley office tower
- Perth rents soar as vacancies tighten further
- National Rental Affordability Scheme opportunities for NSW and Queensland investors
- Centro finds support for restructure proposal
- Perth vacancies tighten for fifth month in a row: SQM Research
- Melbourne investors should look for high rental yields, not capital growth, in the short term: Tim Lawless
- Rising industrial rents should encourage Australian investors: CBRE
- Apprentice no longer, Andrew Morello further along the Yellow Brick Road
- REIA lobbies for Canadian-style first-home buyer scheme
- Commercial leasing: Watch this space
- Centro shares up after revised restructure proposal
- Logan takes the biggest hit among Brisbane regional cities: September quarter REIQ
- Brisbane median house prices September quarter 2011: A suburb-by-suburb guide
- Queensland vendors prefer not to sell at all rather than sell at a deep discount
- Consumers intend to buy a house but holding off on a car: Westpac Red Book
- Commercial hammer prices
- CBD hotels deliver return of 18%: Report
- Occupy Wall Street protest hurting New York real estate
- Investor demand to remain strong for Sydney industrial property
- Population growth to help Melbourne housing market from mid-2012: ANZ
- Refund Home Loans owes creditors $9.7 million as relations with franchisees turn sour
- Regional banks rely on covered bonds to stay competitive
- Government action needed as Sydney rental crisis worsens: REINSW
- Fixed home loan rates set to be trimmed even further
- Victoria leads nation in new building approvals
- Government proposes standard flood definition for insurers
- Commercial leasing: Watch this space
- CBA counting down the week until ACCC Mortgage Choice decision
- Docklands growth to push Melbourne A-grade fringe office space to one million square metres
- It will take more than 50 years to sell all of New York's foreclosed homes
- ING Direct the biggest of the small
- Long leases key to pub success: ALE Property Group
- Commercial hammer prices
- More rate cuts needed following lacklustre mortgage lending figures: HIA
- Australian CBD office markets outpace their Asian neighbours: CBRE
- Department stores - Myer, David Jones and Target - poorest-performing Westfield tenants
- Gold Coast developers optimistic, despite slow sales
- Commercial leasing: Watch this space
- Metro to add to Fortitude Valley apartment portfolio
- House price growth: How capital city house prices have fared since 2006
- Sydney house and land development to double in next two years: BIS Shrapnel
- Allco Sydney asset re-listed after last sale fails to get across the line
- RBA lowers inflation forecast in November statement, suggesting more rate cuts possible
- Wayne Ormond's Refund Real Estate and Refund Financial Planning in voluntary administration
- Stockland takes 29 seconds to sell 40 Illawarra lots in online blitz
- Inner Sydney running out of space for off-the-plan developments
- ANZ to focus on migrant and over-50 home loan customers
- NSW leads revival of first-home buyer market - and the fix is on: AFG
- Rate cut to add stability to commercial property market: CBRE
- Calendar of need-to-know deadlines for home buyers wanting government grants
- Commercial hammer prices
- 'Greedy' NAB's decision not to pass on full rate cut 'a kick in the guts': Wayne Swan
- Commonwealth Property Office Fund launches off-market buyback
- RAMS undercuts all major banks
- NAB the only bank not to pass on full rate cut, but claims to still have lowest rates
- Docklands development Yarra Point three-quarters sold as Mirvac says the price is right
- Hobart property market struggles as Tasmania not attracting tree-changers: RP Data
- Number of UK investors refinancing increases as 'buy-to-let' loans hit three-year high
- FirstMac posts strong profits for 2011 financial year
- Banks start passing on rate cut with varying speed
- Rate cut will help the economy and boost confidence, say quick-draw industry players
- RBA cuts rates by 0.25%
- House prices fall 1.2% in September quarter: ABS
- New home sales at 11-year low: HIA
October 2011
- More borrowers locking in interest rates: Mortgage Choice
- Shareholders unhappy with executive pay at Dexus
- Dexus returns four times better than S&P property index
- Commercial leasing: Watch this space
- Mortgage lending up modestly in September
- House prices fall slightly in best result in seven months: RP Data-Rismark
- Westpac forecasts four rate cuts in next 10 months
- First home saver accounts becoming more popular
- Big Australian commercial deals help CBRE post strong third-quarter results
- Melbourne apartment offerings contract from 2010 exuberance
- Woolies and K-mart to anchor Centro's new property group
- Poor performance of cinemas and department stores hurt GPT's bottom line
- Rate cut no guarantee of return of confidence: NAB boss
- Cup Day rate cut would give mortgage holders $46 a month: RateCity
- Melbourne building permits value sets August record thanks to big-ticket projects
- Sydney house prices to recover from next year: ANZ
- NAB says rate cuts would only be a temporary stimulus
- Commercial hammer prices
- Now all four big banks see stronger case for Melbourne Cup Day rate cut
- NAB withdraws court action to evict tenants of repossessed property
- Third-quarter inflation of 0.6% means rates could be cut on Cup Day
- Mark Bouris' Yellow Brick Road hints at intentions to become a bank
- Retail outperformed office and industrial over past decade or two: Stockland
- September uptick for Stockland residential offerings
- October 31 tax return deadline looms for property investors
- Macquarie pulls out of consortium to bid for Charter Hall Office REIT
- Strong Australian demand helps Knight Frank post profits up 10%
- Aussies holidaying abroad hurting domestic hotel operators: RBA
- Lend Lease buys Westfield's stake in Cairns Central shopping centre
- Commercial leasing: Watch this space
- Now may be the time to fix your mortgage: John Symond
- Brisbane office market surges ahead, leaving Gold Coast in the dust
- Apartment construction to slump in 2012: Industry survey
- Investors strike it rich in mining towns but markets still dampened in flood-affected areas
- Food-based retail a safer investment as two-thirds of European fashion customers happy to shop online
- Investor interest to remain strong for Australian commercial property: CBRE
- More Sydney home owners and renters in housing stress than any other capital
- Melbourne's vacancy rate climbs to 3% and could continue to grow: SQM Research
- Another Queensland golf course for sale
- Sydneysiders driven out by housing undersupply and congestion: Report
- Major banks among the winners as mortgage brokers celebrate industry growth
- Parramatta office tower on the market for about $50 million
- New home building recovery at least six months off: HIA/RP Data
- Residential building down 5.3% in June quarter
- Leighton Holdings decries S&P downgrade
- Dexus’ 1 Bligh Street criticised over price, design and views
- Property prices to fall 20% by 2013 year's end: Steve Keen
- Weak outlook for retail, but industrial to improve: NAB
- Holding Redlich to anchor Bourke Street tower
- Leighton Properties posts loss but expects outlook to improve with increased migration
- Commercial hammer prices
- Australian banks more resilient than European: RBA
- Dexus will take four years to lease 1 Bligh Street: Merrill Lynch analyst
- Offers over $30 million sought for Austcorp's Coomera Waters Gold Coast development
- Victorians most comfortable with their mortgages: ING Direct
- RBA rate cut coming, but not this month, say major banks
- Small uptick in home loans an encouraging sign: HIA
- RBA notes 'subdued' housing market
- Metal recycling facilities for sale by WMR receivers
- CBA leads big bank rate cut as 36 lenders cut fixed rates in October
- Housing approvals fall in Victoria and NSW: ABS
- Lenders enticing borrowers with low deposit requirements
- More hotels could become hospitals in wake of ailing leisure sector
- Resources sector dominates Perth office market
- Older office buildings must get with the times: Colliers
- Holiday properties possible through SMSF: Expert
- Commercial hammer prices
- Retail shopping for space in Sydney office towers
- Commercial leasing: Watch this space
- Multinationals snapping up industrial space in Melbourne's west
- Two rate cuts in next six months: ANZ
- Poor outlook for Tasmanian housing market: Westpac
- Mortgage brokers gain market share but lose power: JP Morgan
- Citigate fully booked for Bathurst 1000 but still seeking buyer
- US fixed-rate mortgages at historic lows
- Landmark Wagga Wagga hotel seeks marquee buyer
- Holden beats Ford as vendors throw in freebies in hopes of driving sales
- Smaller lenders gaining favour with first-home buyers
- Almost half of borrowers choosing discounted mortgages
- Challenge to Stockland Caloundra South development dropped
- Financial planners and developers join forces to entice SMSF investment
- Half of NSW and Queensland development site listings distressed
- Queensland tourism industry needs government help: Midwood
- Commercial hammer prices
- Westpac entices mortgage customers with cash offer
- Mortgage discount wars unsustainable: JP Morgan
- John Symond betting on Melbourne Cup Day rate cut
- Gyms struggle to find space to stretch
- Sydney industrial market in a 'holding pattern': Herron Todd White
- Asian investors snapping up Melbourne development sites: Savills
- Hotspot: Geelong's on the ball with rising yields
- Charter Hall has a taste for Coles and Woolies
- As expected, RBA leaves rates on hold
- Investa Office Fund declines half-stake in Melbourne office building
- New unit approvals up 35% in August: ABS
- NAB undercuts big rivals on one-year fixed rates
- Property investors under fire as tax summit kicks off
- Investor interest expected for 7-Eleven portfolio auction
- Economists divided on six-month rates forecast
- Cairns still attracting lifestyle buyers, as tide goes out on economic migration
- Slow and steady growth predicted for CBD office market
- Commercial leasing: Watch this space
- Jump in demand for fixed-rate mortgages in September as lenders fight to be lowest
- NAB says mortgage wars a boon to business
- Economists agree no RBA rate movement this time, barring one maybe
- Academic calls on Canberra to fix housing tax 'mess'
- Frasers secures record post-GFC loan for Sydney Central Park project
September 2011
- One big barney: Lachlan Harris defends One Big Switch after AFG attack
- Brisbane could be at the bottom of the market: RP Data
- Sydney house prices hold steady as national decline slows
- US property group buys 11,000 Aussie self-storage units
- ING slices fixed rates to undercut all competitors
- The most delinquent town in Australia says it's not that bad
- Mortgage arrears high but stabilising: Fitch
- CUA undercuts major banks with fixed rate cut
- St George joins Westpac in cutting fixed rates
- HIA demands tax relief for new housing ahead of tax summit
- Three CBD Marriott hotels up for sale
- Former REIA president David Airey to lead REIWA
- Commercial hammer prices
- Buyer has no draft plan yet for Carlton and United Brewery site
- Hotspots: Investors mine for yields of up to 16% in Moranbah
- Cashed-up banks will continue to cut fixed-rate mortgages: RateCity
- Owner-occupier demand rises while house prices drop 2.4%: NAB
- Fixed-rage mortgages could get even cheaper: Ross Greenwood
- Housing academic says 'landed gentry' destroying 'fair go'
- Owners of Greek property hit with new tax from 2014
- Strong housing demand in South Australia won't last: Westpac
- Westpac cuts fixed mortgage rates
- Final piece of the late Brian Ray's Port Douglas dream for sale
- Investors returning to North Sydney offices: CBRE
- CBA customers still smarting over Melbourne Cup rate rise
- Slowing spending makes rate cut more likely: Bill Evans
- Commercial leasing: Watch this space
- Dexus looks for CBD office space in improving market
- Households saving like it's 1985
- Seven reasons households are well placed to deal with mortgage stress: RBA
- First-home owners inspired to save by economic turmoil: Mortgage Choice
- Tasmanian trophy tourism offerings abound in slow market
- Greater Building Society fixed-rate home mortgage undercuts major banks
- New inflation calculation will weight rents more heavily
- Chinese investment important for Australian property: Baillieu
- Mortgage Choice boss says housing fundamentals strong despite IMF downgrade
- Sentiment for houses rises but upturn in market unlikely: Westpac Redbook
- Clouds won't part for retail anytime soon: ANZ
- Westpac takes Paris end of Collins, leaves Docklands to other banks
- Sydney housing market will weather economic storm: John Symond
- Mining town prices booming but vulnerable
- Immigration cuts hurting housing market: Savills
- Mortgage brokers forced to reveal commissions from October 2
- Commercial hammer prices
- Valuers bristle at being forced to assume loan risk
- Investors hungry for food-based retail
- Home buyer confidence declining more rapidly: Genworth
- RBA stuck in neutral after IMF cuts global forecast: NAB
- Centro sells Adelaide shopping centre following Brisbane settlement
- SMSF trustees warned about overpaying stamp duty
- Small lenders casualties of big bank mortgage wars: Mortgage Choice
- Green-rated buildings gold for investors
- Westpac sticks to its December rate cut forecast
- Housing weakness highlighted in cautious RBA minutes
- Clive Palmer adds distressed golf courses to his Queensland trophy cabinet
- Wellington InterContinental sold for NZ$50 million
- Mortgage wars not always good for borrowers: Resi
- Banks sacrificing profit for mortgage holder growth
- Commercial leasing: Watch this space
- Using a DIY super fund to buy property off the plan a grey area
- Institutions and foreign investors buying up Melbourne offices
- SMSF trustees must be very vigilant concerning tax: ATO
- Choice denies plans to offer mortgage broking
- More banks lending to properties in NRAS affordability scheme
- Airlines flying high in Sydney CBD office space
- California solar panel leasing deal sets bright warehouse leasing record
- Fifteen ways to add property to your SMSF
- Another Allco asset on the sale block
- Building blacklist creates opportunity for specialist lenders: Mortgage brokers
- Alex Perry development and others all the fashion in Fortitude Valley
- Interest rates on hold until November 2012: NAB
- Sea Temple development seeks golfing devotee developer
- Housing industry asks for government intervention as housing starts slide
- Older properties take on new sheen for SMSFs following tax reno ruling
- Woolworths puts Lismore Centro in its shopping basket
- Commercial hammer prices
- Parramatta office leasing up 81% in a year: Savills
- Suburban shopping centre sales top $1 billion for year: CBRE
- Melbourne house prices up 5.4% in June quarter: REIA
- Consumer sentiment for buying a house at two-year high: Westpac
- SMSF renovation tax ruling makes DIY property investment more alluring
- Urban sprawl should go out, not up
- Australian real estate sector struggling: Dun & Bradstreet
- NSW building approvals up: ABS
- Wollongong hotel to become psychiatric facility
- Bank urged to publish building blacklist
- Chinese investors snap up Sydney office tower for $117 million
- Buyers say good morning to Breakfast Point development
- Agents slow to spruik fast broadband
- Melbourne office market to remain strong until 2014: Colliers
- Commercial leasing: Watch this space
- Owner-occupier mortgage value rises for fourth straight month
- Charity slams bank blacklist of affordable homes
- Mortgage brokers help avoid blacklist finance knockbacks: Industry
- CBA says it will beat competitors' mortgage rates
- GPT to sell stake in Sydney's MLC tower
- Spring to bring more housing market activity: RP Data
- Tax Office to look more closely at SMSF property investment
- NBN reaches Western Sydney broad-acre site
- Inner-Brisbane unit sales up 15%
- Developer lures new home buyers with no-deposit loans
- Stockland gets green light on Sunshine Coast development
- Mortgage burden eases in Victoria and WA
- Less risky A-REITs outperform the share market
- Melbourne takes Manhattan as high-rise approvals soar
- Super funds look offshore to sate growing demand for property
- Troubled Centro now offloading seven shopping centres
- Commercial hammer prices
- Queensland property offers chance to be king of the 1970s castle
- RBA graphs highlight growing savings culture
- Rates unlikely to change while global uncertainty remains: RBA's Glenn Stevens
- CUA joins lenders cutting fixed rates as borrowers continue to save
- Horse stud discounted by 42% in five months on SQM discount list
- Centro seeks buyer for Townsville centre
- Mortgage Choice CEO contemplates CBA selling stake in broker
- Affordability could draw investors to Tasmania
- Interest rates remain on hold
- Mortgage numbers remain soft in July
- Interest rates affect housing market more than government grants
- Queensland housing prospects stronger than NSW: Deutsche Bank
- Flat vineyard sales to sparkle next year: Colliers
- Commercial leasing: Watch this space
- Farmers worried about agricultural outlook but plan to invest anyway
- Mortgage approvals at 18-month high
- Auction buyer ordered to pay $350,000 shortfall after failing to settle
- More investors think property will outperform shares: Survey
- Perth to develop Melbourne-style laneways as retail vacancies rise
- ASIC on the hunt for unlicensed mortgage brokers
- Land tax by the numbers: What investors must know
- Russian buys £13 million Rolex store
- Gold Coast property swindler sentenced to seven years in prison
- Retailers and Westpac discount better-than-expected retail figures
- ASIC offers advice for those behind on mortgage payments
- Real Estate Institute of Queensland launches listings website
- Critical housing shortage looming: HIA
- Pitt Street mall closing in on Fifth Avenue retail rents
- A-REITs slow but steady investments: Moody's
- Fixed-rate mortgage discounts fail to sway many borrowers
August 2011
- Customer-owned credit union takes on banking
- Bendigo a rental property goldmine for 21st-century speculators
- CBA counting down to ACCC decision on its Mortgage Choice stake
- Queensland building grant to boost construction after government-induced downturn: Westpac
- Sluggish housing credit growth points to lack of investor interest: Westpac
- Commercial leasing: Watch this space
- When mining boom ends, the west will weaken: BIS Shrapnel
- Former Centro CEO Andrew Scott escapes boardroom ban but cops fine
- Major banks dominate mortgage lending
- NSW transportation infrastructure to boost industrial property: CBRE
- Low-deposit loans lures offered to first-home buyers
- Jackson's on George building hopes to draw investors with city square plan
- Varied outlook on home approvals front
- Six real estate funds rate highly as investment options: SQM
- Even home building award winners finding the market tough
- ASIC warns property spruikers about dodgy advertising
- New alfresco dining precinct planned for Chatswood
- Singaporean private equity firm buys Constellation hotels
- Commercial hammer prices
- Offshore funds investing heavily in Australian commercial property
- Centro says it must restructure or fail
- Macquarie offers $1.7 billion to buy Charter Hall Office REIT
- NSW and WA lead nationwide drop in new house sales
- SMSFs' investment in property continues to grow
- Sydney's housing shortfall to double by 2014: Urban Taksforce
- Profits down but volumes up at Homeloans Pty Ltd
- Commonwealth Bank expects rates to rise, other banks not so sure
- Lend Lease profits up 50%, but it warns of tough times ahead
- RBA likely to sit on its hands as global anxiety persists
- Queensland property investors sue over what they say is inflated price
- Conservative A-REITs performing best: Analyst
- BlueScope factory closure will not kill Illawarra region: Terry Ryder
- Housing affordability improves in all capitals but Brisbane
- First-home buyer numbers up: Mortgage Choice
- BlueScope Steel closure will severely hurt Illawarra market: Michael Yardney
- Melbourne land price falls for second consecutive quarter
- Rental vacancies ease in Sydney, plateau nationally
- Government employee super fund tipped to buy half of Perth office tower QV1
- Mortgage Choice cash profits up 7% to $16 million
- New home building slumps in June quarter
- Gladstone Queensland's top performer: REIQ
- Privacy preferences make holiday apartments better investments than B&Bs
- ASIC steps in to help Great Northern investors
- Some investors find dual-key apartments twice as nice
- Banks and bananas to blame for savings culture: RBA
- Coles and Woolies help Mirvac deliver 30% profit increase
- Commercial leasing: Watch this space
- Business hotels performing well while leisure sector struggles: Deloitte
- Former owner jumps at opportunity to buy back Friendly Inn
- Mortgage insurance provider Genworth welcomes wider customer know-how
- Brisbane property market split as half rise and half fall in price
- Sydney publicans eager for taste of Newcastle hotel
- Heritage buildings can now shoot for six green stars
- Consumers far more hawkish than banks on interest rates: Westpac Redbook
- Offshore investors expected to buy up hotels
- Commercial hammer prices
- Quest moves up in hotel rankings, closing in on Intercontinental
- Retailers must offer something extra to fend off online threat: Savills
- Westfield cinemas struggling, perhaps due to pricey popcorn
- Gap widening between Aussie and overseas retail rents: Westfield
- Vacancies rise on Rundle Mall in weakening Adelaide retail market
- Sydney's industrial construction to triple in next year with Eastern Creek fillip: CBRE
- Gladstone almost out of rental space at height of mining boom
- Rental vacancies on the rise on Gold Coast
- Westpac sticks with interest rate cut prediction, with December expectations
- AMP scouting out Cairns Central shopping central
- Fears of second GFC kept rates on hold: RBA
- Sydney office market strongest but most vulnerable to recession: Morgan Stanley
- Mosman Bridgepoint shopping centre sells to Chinese investor
- Commercial leasing: Watch this space
- CFS shops around for right retail mix
- Big retailers get behind rezoning proposal
- Mortgage bills and insurance pushing up cost of living
- RAMS could become full bank
- Demand for housing in mining towns Wollongong and Newcastle sliding: HTW
- Foodies show growing appetite for Brisbane CBD space
- Pedigree Riverina Merino sheep station listed for a pretty shilling
- Brisbane rental market easing six months after floods
- ASIC to ease mortgage broker requirements
- Westfield to spend $160 million to develop Italian shopping centre
- US and Aussie housing markets chalk and cheese: RP Data
- Regional grants convincing Sydneysiders to consider a tree change
- Real estate more appealing to SMSFs in turbulent share market: Belle Property
- REITs fall again in rollercoaster week, except GPT
- Borrowers flock to fixed-rate mortgages amid uncertainty
- Jump in overseas trips bad news for regional hotels
- Carbon tax won't increase housing costs much: Stockland
- Cashed-up Triguboff wants rates kept low
- Commercial hammer prices
- Banks big winners in commercial finance slump
- Stockland plans smaller, regional shopping centres to combat online threat
- A-REITs bounce back after fall
- Melbourne leads commercial boom as foreign investors step in
- Hotspots: Broome market turning around
- Restaurateurs sought for $2 million Darlinghurst offerings
- Government to offer seniors reverse mortgage protection
- Commonwealth Bank cuts fixed home loan rates
- First-home buyers and mortgage numbers down, but banks boost their dominance
- Inner-Sydney rents up $40 a week over the past year
- Ten twists and turns: The interest rate forecast rollercoaster
- Commercial leasing: Watch this space
- Sour grapes as outlook poor for vineyards
- More than half of potential home buyers put off by spectre of carbon tax
- Perth house prices fall to pre-GFC levels
- NSW heads to recovery but others catch the construction blues: BIS Shrapnel
- Specialty retail property loses value: RBA
- RBA says finance availability improving for office developments
- RBA cuts growth forecast
- Borrowers switching mortgage providers, but not necessarily for the better
- Newcastle and Wollongong office markets weakening: HTW
- Retail industry bodies welcome suggested rezoning
- Governments urged to implement standardised retail tenancies
- A-REIT trading down a week after Charter Hall takeover bid
- Victoria worst-performing state as mortgage sales fall nationwide: AFG
- Fringe office markets outpace metro neighbours
- Adelaide office market has peaked: Property Council
- Super funds to disclose property risk level
- Bunking down in Darwin no longer cheap
- Commercial hammer prices
- Hotspots: Grey wave sweeping Ballina
- Lachlan Harris defends One Big Switch from critics
- Hoppers Crossing loses some of its bounce
- Discount mortgages gain ground as One Big Switch passes 10,000
- Real estate agency introduces home buyers home warranty initiative
- Japanese tsunami victims offered ski field summer homes by charitable Australian investors
- Property investors still prospecting, but Perth's off the table
- RBA keeps rates on hold for eighth straight month
- Mortgage broker gets ASIC life ban for deceptive conduct
- Rents rocketing in Melbourne's eastern suburbs
- Commercial leasing: Watch this space
- Choice's Big Switch home loan campaign a 'gimmick', say bankers
- Hedge funds still aggressively hovering over A-REITs
- Blackstone snaps up heavily discounted Valad
- Chatswood office tower refurbishment to appeal to larger tenants
- First Top End cattle station sold since live export ban
- Borrowing enquiries up in Queensland and WA
- Government property grants by the numbers: State by state
- West Australian launches localised REA rival
July 2011
- Rates will go up, but not this time around: HSBC's Bloxham
- House prices to fall following next interest rate rise: RP Data
- Proposed housing tax reforms don't go far enough: HIA
- Regional hotels booked for trouble, but CBD hotels have staying power
- Estate agents warned not to give dodgy SMSF advice: accountant
- Rates likely to go up next week: ANZ
- Sydney's Suncorp building sold for $395 million
- Centro Wodonga sale bodes well for regional shopping centre market
- Bell Potter sets office leasing record for Sydney premises
- Industrial market strongest in WA: NAB
- Apart from Pitt Street Mall, NSW retail outlook bleak: NAB
- Commercial hammer prices
- Isolated Westpac questions CPI calculation method
- Offices to outperform other commercial sectors: NAB
- Higher-than-expected inflation figures could trigger rates rise
- Melbourne office sales to reach $2 billion in 2011: Colliers
- Charter Hall defeats management takeover challenge
- Woolloomooloo wharf restaurant offerings comes with $25 million hopes
- Centro seeking buyer for Illawarra shopping centre
- Sunshine Coast market recovery to lag behind Brisbane: PRDnationwide
- Gen Ys willing to miss out on food and alcohol to buy investment property
- New life for Charter Hall Cremorne commercial holding
- Commercial leasing: Watch this space
- Unit holders expected to vote in favour of Charter Hall in REIT battle
- Steer clear of A-REITs, says investment manager
- Alexandria ranks as top investment suburb: Survey
- Housing investment to fall in Victoria: Deloitte
- Brisbane leads other cities in industrial deals for quarter
- Austar's Gold Coast headquarters back on the market
- International retailers look to fill vacancies left by big chain collapses
- Five-star facelift planned for Sheraton Mirage Port Douglas
- Office tenants flock to St Kilda Road: Savills
- Optimists still outnumber pessimists, but housing sentiment turning into consumer caution: Westpac
- Toorak and Bridge roads struggle with high retail vacancy rates
- Sydney ranks 27 places higher than Melbourne as a regional financial hub
- Sydney prime offices to yield 20% returns for investors: CBRE
- Commercial hammer prices
- Hoppers Crossing 7-Eleven sells for $3.49 million, with nine bidders missing out
- Fixed-rate mortgages close in on variable rates
- Business travellers driving Perth hotel recovery
- Commercial tenants keen on green in response to carbon debate
- Agents warned about dodgy tax claims
- Hotspots: Inner-city suburbs like St Kilda make top 100
- Asian funds lead offshore commercial buying spree
- July inflation figures will be key to interest rate policy: RBA
- Bank of Melbourne entices customers with 1% mortgage rate discount
- DIY super investors look for safer regulation
- Brisbane hotel sector recovering as occupancy hits 77%
- Jamie Oliver's Sydney premises highlights appetite for eatery space
- SA vineyards up for sale as downturn puts the squeeze on wineries
- NSW retail property attracts investors
- Despite downturn, property still popular for Gold Coast super investors
- Listed and unlisted property trusts offer investors different incentives
- Interest rates heading down in December 2011: Westpac
- Growth tipped for CBD apartments, but investors warned to tread carefully
- Brokers see better bank relations after St George commission move
- ‘Quality’ shopping centres insulated against tenant woes: analysts
- Premiums to soar if flood cover becomes mandatory: insurers
- Demand for industrial property at risk as manufacturers consider offshore
- Govt must intervene to stimulate land sales: HIA/RP Data
- WA rental growth expectations hold steady: NAB
- Resources a boom for Perth and Brisbane office markets
- Unlisted trusts: ASIC compliance worth the cost: industry
- Melbourne serviced apartments yielding strong returns
- Housing confidence at 18-month high: Westpac
- Industrial to face lesser carbon tax impact than offices: Goldman Sachs
- Melbourne west industrial rents soar
- Sydney strong, but regional serviced apartments shedding guests
- Price and proximity make Eastlakes a hotspot
- ASIC seeks better disclosure from unlisted property trusts
- Consumers reluctant to pay for mortgage broking services
- UK developer eyes off Australia for super-luxury apartments site
- Brisbane serviced apartments fill up, while coast empties out
- Insurers urge government to invest in flood risk mitigation
- Queensland demand for mortgages slows
- Melbourne prices to remain in the red in 2011: WBP
- Westpac firms on Cup day rate rise
- Renter-investor numbers rise to one in five: survey
- Adelaide investor prospects subdued for now
- Aussie investors sought for historic Brighton Pier
- Dexus acquires Californian warehouse for $17 million
- Singapore commercial trust to invest in Sydney tower
- Commercial sales wrap
- Japanese developers partner with Frasers on Central Park
- Commercial leasing: watch this space
- One in 10 buyers choosing to “rent to invest”
- Canberra prestige homes taking six months to sell: CBRE
- Apartment and townhouse owners require carbon compo: industry body
- Lenders trying to entice fixed rate borrowers
- Hotspot: Investors tap into Carlton student rental market
- RBA leaves rates at 4.75% in July
- CBRE hoping to offload Gunn industrial portfolio to Asian investors
- Construction outlook “ringing alarm bells”: MBA
- Industrial investors shunning soft NSW regional markets
- ANZ predicts no rate rise until February 2012
- NSW new home approvals near record low
- Big squeeze on Melbourne laneway retail vacancies
- Brokers drop 26% as value of loans written drops $2.7 billion
- Hardware battle to push up warehouse prices: Colliers
- Lenders continue to cut fixed rates
- Commercial leasing: Watch this space
- ASIC brings charges against Wespoint duo
- Stockland buys retirement villages in Queensland and ACT
- Real estate institutes fear mooted licensing scheme will lower standards
- WA new home sales volumes at dangerously low levels : HIA
- Australian investment fund snaps up 19 properties in US state of New Jersey
June 2011
- Gladstone becoming an investor hotpsot: Herron Todd White
- Mortgage lending remains flat
- Mirvac touted as possible takeover scenario
- Darwin bucks national trend of falling house prices: RP Data-Rismark
- Australian fund that invests in US housing trading at listing price
- Australian retail rents the highest in the world: Report
- REITs forecast to deliver 4.8% growth: Merrill Lynch
- Commercial hammer prices
- Brisbane market saturated with apartments
- Hotspot: Newcastle tipped for strong growth
- Four vying for Cubbie Station irrigation property
- Bulky goods retailers baulk at paying for premises awaiting occupation approval
- Two sell as 7-Eleven tempts investors
- CBD fringe suburbs draw office tenants with lower rents
- RBA welcomes banks' reduction in reliance on off-shore funding
- Commercial leasing: Watch this space
- Flood-resistant house can keep high and dry
- Vineyard sales bring grape expectations from Asian investors
- Support grows for performance-based A-REIT fees
- Perth, Sydney and Brisbane best short-term investment prospects: BIS Shrapnel
- Brisbane floods force $80 million downgrade for Mirvac
- Investor sentiment for property slips
- Millionaire investors shift focus to commercial property
- Non-bank lenders say mortgage exit fees are vital
- Mandurah population growth helps stem price decline
- Commercial hammer prices
- Kathy MacDermott: Property research and relationships the key
- Property buyers should avoid the herd, says John McGrath
- Construction sector, real estate in the doldrums: Dun & Bradstreet
- Almost time for Perth units to recover
- Housing developers showing interest in ACT: Colliers
- Hotspot: Darwin's Tiwi a 'sleeping giant'
- Clovelly catches two off-the-plan buyers as caution increases
- Modest A-REIT performance reflects stabilising property market
- Two-speed economy and housing slowdown prompted RBA to keep rates on hold
- Pitt Street Mall retail rents up 11% in a year
- Mazda signs biggest industrial lease of the year to date
- Pub where Magpies got their stripes up for sale
- Retail could provide a good investment for self-managed super
- Newsagents say retail rents are unfair
- Majority of experts polled tip Melbourne office market to boom
- Likely to be no office space left in Homebush in a year: Report
- Tasmania drops stamp duty concession for first-home buyers
- Melbourne apartment among most discounted properties for first time in a year
- Don't blame us - rent is market-driven: Westfield
- University housing graduates to the next level
- Regional centres outperforming capital cities: CBA
- ATO warns estate agents to be vigilant with tax claims
- Scott Staniforth: On the ball
- Rate rise likely: ANZ
- Darwin stock levels rise, evidence of 'dicey' market
- Jump in housing start figures unexpected but welcome
- Darwin rental vacancy rate doubles in three months
- Adelaide Hills are alive with the sound of money
- Hotspot: Mirrabooka one to watch
- REIQ slams Queensland's withdrawal of stamp duty discounts for non-first home buyers
- Landlords under investigation as ATO cracks down
- Western Sydney emerging as industrial hotspot
- Shopping centre owners defend high rents
- Smaller leases drive Sydney CBD commercial market recovery
- Immigration changes lead to drop in demand for lower-end student housing
- US property fund reaches almost $70 million
- Queensland unit prices falling
- First-home buyer boost to end in SA
- Parramatta has Venitian dreams
- Property manager says bulky goods have staying power, but NAB disagrees
- Let it snow, agents pray
- Double-digit rental growth predicted for Melbourne office market
- Aussie home buyers deeply in debt, but paying it off fast
- US property fund draws $60 million from Aussie investors
- Aussie investors not turning Japanese anymore
- Alex Perry: Inspired by beauty
- Melbourne leads industrial rental growth in Pacific region
- ACT leads mortgage growth figures
- Carbon tax to add $6,000 to new home costs: HIA
- First-home buyer numbers down nationwide, except in NT
- Seaford market flat, but price increases likely down the track
- Relief greets interest rate decision and RBA’s softer position
- Interest rates hold steady at 4.75%
- Investors returning to Queensland
- Aussie commercial property executives like their chances
- Luxury retailers push up Sydney super prime rents
- Economists say the RBA should not raise rates, but five think it will
- Australian real estate drawing overseas investors, but locals are looking elsewhere
- Retail sector looks strong in Melbourne
- Agents' attrition leads to shift in focus
- Retail rents expected to fall as chains collapse
- Disqualified agents Marquette and Turner still tweeting about real estate
- Brisbane clocks in near bottom of market
- John McGrath still positive, despite house price drop
- Non-bank lenders hitting their stride
- Slump in building approvals adds to Tasmania's property woes
- Queensland resorts need to widen their focus: Expert
- Rates rise still likely, despite GDP fall: HIA
- Darwin outlook gloomy despite temporary rise: Christopher
- Trouble in paradise as another Queensland resort goes under
- Sydney's Pitt Street third most expensive in the world for retail
May 2011
- Melbourne office market leaves Sydney in the dust
- Industrial offers high returns for investors
- Hotel investors can rest easy in capital cities
- Sydney apartments snapped up off the plan
- Sydney and Brisbane office rents cheap but growing: report
- Home ownership dream could be in twilight years
- New home sales could worsen, says HIA
- REDgroup says retail rent too high
- Mortgage delinquencies won't rise: RP Data
- Magazine empire to rent one-third of One World Trade
- Strong dollar, retail boosts warehouse market
- Mortgage delinquencies at record high and could climb further: Report