The ‘Australian property bubble’ has been talked up a lot. But is the future fate of our real estate sector really as black and white as ‘what goes up, must come crashing back down’? And what would the ramifications be if our housing markets were to falter significantly over the coming decade? What social, political […]

One could almost feel a little sorry for the banks lately, when you consider the thinly veiled and conflicting threats directed at them from government regulators like APRA and the federal treasury. On the one hand, APRA and the Reserve Bank are leaning heavily on the Big Four, warning against increasing their investor related lending […]

I don’t envy Governor Glenn Stevens and crew over at the RBA, as they face a continuing conundrum around their monetary policymaking each month.

Residential real estate is certainly one of the more interesting commodities of trade in our modern age.