[quote=don_dunstan][quote]I'm assuming that since the restrictions related to the proportion of investor mortgages on the books, recent cooling of the investor market has opened up space for a revival ...
[i]Billionaire property developer Harry Triguboff says the downturn in Australia's apartment market will have a "big impact on the economy", and has called for government intervention to help stem pri ...
[quote=don_dunstan]At this point it appears that most small-time landlords etc. are still okay unless they went deep in WA or the NT. As Carnot said (above) it's hard to know what the quality of many ...
[quote=don_dunstan]It's pretty clear-cut that in Melbourne there's been 20 years of very reliable house price growth and that you are probably on a winner if you bet that your property value will go u ...
[quote=don_dunstan]I have friends in Melbourne who treated a (paper) appreciation in the value of their home like it was a lotto win - borrowing money from their mortgage to finance a very expensive h ...
[quote]It would appear "Status Anxiety" is alive and well. The people I've known to be the smartest when it comes to finance tend to drive 5-10 year-old sedans or station wagons that can be bought fo ...
[quote=don_dunstan]Stagnant or falling wages are a symptom of a very unhealthy economy - Morrison won't acknowledge this but in an economy geared towards borrowing exponential amounts of money for mor ...
[quote=don_dunstan]Incidentally I don't think there's any way the government could possibly make good on their covered bond guarantee to the Big Four Banks unless they either raided the super funds or ...
[quote=awsgc24]There is a possible second reason for the relocation of the Up Accept, and that is to allow for the overlaps for bidirectional working from Cowan to Hawkesbury River. Thus protecting si ...
[quote=don_dunstan]THE official ABS Gross Domestic Product figures are released today and shows that households are not saving money and are experiencing a freeze in incomes. Scott Morrison immediatel ...
[quote=HardWorkingMan]people haven't been investing in property for rental values for a number of years. Where they are making their money is in capital gains. There seems to be a belief that proper ...
[quote=don_dunstan]Dense inner city apartment living in Sydney and Melbourne is putting profit before people warns Bill Randolph on [url=https://theconversation.com/why-investor-driven-urban-density-i ...
[quote=don_dunstan][quote]Ten percent yield sounds a bit high for Sydney nowadays, doesn't it? Especially with rising lending rates on investment loans and low rent growth.[/quote]I have read his stor ...
[quote=michaelgm]MILW! Not familiar with Glass-Steagall arrangement. Will google. Without the bank guarantee, could you just imagine the run on the banks, if thinss went totally tits up? I seriously c ...
For me at least, the bank guarantee is justification enough for the proposed bank tax/levy.
I agree, although I don't believe in the government bank guarantee to begin with. ...
[quote=don_dunstan][i]He said his current rental yields were sitting at about 10 per cent, so even if interest rates went as high as 8 per cent, he would still be okay.[/i]
[i]“I always always have ...
Since the economy is not exactly powering along, I'd attribute a decent chunk of this increased demand to population growth and congested crappy roads, parking difficulties, fuel costs etc.
I like ...
[quote=Groundrelay]Don is barking up the wrong tree. Whilst it plays well to the cash-for-comment lot his foreigner welfare 'thing' is a relatively minuscule cost to the economy.
This country has a ...
[quote=Carnot]Slight change of topic, but Brexit could be the least of the Poms economic concerns with the explosion of Personal Contract Plans in the past 4 years potentially creating another sub-pri ...
[quote=billybaxter]It's sad, of course, but photos I've seen of it show it as a fairly banal structure, certainly not something that anybody other than a gunzel might think is special. Are there any o ...
Regarding NSW and rule NSG608, while trains may run at up to line speed after passing absolute signals at stop under the authority of the network control officer, might I suggest that this is not a go ...
No, a few more paedo priests is not going to kill the Catholic church in Australia, nor anywhere else.