Foreign investors have been vilified for their alleged role in adding increased pressure to what some analysts argue is an already over-inflated property market. Overseas buyers appear to be the primary consumer of Melbourne’s high-rise apartment market in particular. According to data from the NAB, foreign investor activity accounted for around 20 per cent of […]

Have you noticed something in the air? Yes…of course there’s that New Year kind of smell, but there’s also a feeling of antici….pation! Largely from mortgage customers who are getting a little edgy about the future of interest rates. Shaking off the complacency that comes with a good three years of consistently cheap credit, borrowers […]

They’re the enclaves graced with celebrity on street corners, where status is everything and where real estate is the exclusive domain of society’s highflying elite. Not for us mere mortals… Australia’s top ten most expensive suburbs for 2015 have a minimum entry-level price tag of a heady $3 million. No prizes for guessing where nine […]

Banks scurried to meet regulatory impositions made by APRA a couple of months back, with all of them upping interest rates on their variable mortgage products virtually across the board. But have they come out swinging too hard, too soon? After a right wrist slapping over the continued rambunctious growth of investment based borrowing throughout […]