It’s spring selling season, so I thought I’d run you through the form guide on what to look for this spring. The past year saw massive disruption to the property market, driven by interest rate rises, construction cost challenges and government intervention. Added to the buyer pool have been first-home buyers, escaping rising rents and…
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From a Bush Economist On my list of qualifications, I boast bush lawyer, bush accountant and bush economist. That Bush University spits out degrees! As a bush economist, I did not see that last interest rate rise coming. That also puts me in the same camp as 50 per cent of actually qualified economists. I’m…
There are a lot of eyes on the rental market and there is a lot of concern about rents going up, the low number of available properties and the long queue of prospective tenants in snakelike lines outside open houses. With this attention comes anxiety and when these three levers move in the wrong direction…
WITH a lot of chatter about interest rates, I called my great mate Paul Hixon, from Loan Market, to get up to speed with the word on the street. He told me about the federal government incentive for first-home buyers (FHB) to help them get into the market. It allows them to avoid Lenders Mortgage…