A lift in the price caps within the Federal Government's Home Loan Deposit Scheme means home buyers will have a broader range of properties they can now buy. The scheme helps first-home buyers purchase a property with a 5% deposit without needing to pay costly lenders' mortgage insurance. The cap will rise by $100,000 across
Let’s start with some helicopter numbers. Table 1 outlines the current housing rental vacancy rates across the larger urban areas in Australia. Most locations have a vacancy rate under 1%. Weekly rents for detached houses have risen by 15% over the last twelve months. It now costs, on average, $570 per week or $30,000 per year
UPDATED FEBURARY 2022 We are open for business as usual There have been many changes over the past few years, with a lot of information to take in, and a new way of day-to-day life to get used to. Our goal throughout this time has, and continues to be, to protect the health and well-being
The Morrison government’s federal budget was marked by a spate of tax cuts and cash handouts, and property investors will be impacted also if a major infrastructure spend makes it through parliament. In his first federal budget, Treasurer Josh Frydenberg committed to spending $100 billion on infrastructure projects over the course of the next decade.
