Melbourne House Prices Fall After Months Of Gains

Published on August 1, 2010 by Technology Slice

Melbourne House Prices Fall After Months Of Gains – One of the nation’s most comprehensive property price-tracking indexes shows Melbourne property prices following a national downturn in June. The latest RP Data-Rismark property index has dwelling prices slipping in all Australian capitals with Perth, Melbourne, Canberra and Brisbane dropping the most.

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First Home Owners Grant Doesn’t Help Affordability

Published on July 28, 2010 by Technology Slice

First Home Owners Grant Doesn’t Help Affordability – The median price for residential property in Melbourne grew 20 per cent between 2008 and 2010, peaking at $480,000 in the last quarter of 2009. Commercial property values rose 7 per cent, industrial jumped 15 per cent and rural holdings went up 6 per cent, the figures [...]

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Housing Market Set To Crash

Published on May 3, 2010 by Technology Slice

Housing Market Set To Crash – Edward Chancellor, of US investment bank GMO, says the Australian economy is yet to emerge from the global financial crisis, despite the widespread belief it has escaped the worst of it ahead of the rest of the world. Mr Chancellor, whose Crunch Time for Credit? was published in 2005, [...]

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Household Debt And Mortgages Grow

Published on April 21, 2010 by Technology Slice

Household Debt And Mortgages Grow – The effort by households to rein in their debt in the wake of the financial crisis was short-lived, with rising property prices pushing home buyers to take on bigger loans than ever. Reserve Bank calculations show that the total mortgage debt is 38.2 per cent bigger than national household [...]

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First Home Buyers Give Up

Published on March 4, 2010 by Technology Slice

First Home Buyers Give Up – One-fifth of Australians will give up on the dream of buying their first home in the next two years if home loan interest rates hit between 8 and 9 per cent, according to a survey from home loans broker Mortgage Choice. By yesterday afternoon all four major banks had [...]

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