Annie Kane

‘Light at the end of the tunnel’: Property investors with equity woes

Despite some areas of Australia experiencing some “extremely volatile” property market fluctuations in the past 12 months, there is an “encouraging environment” for the ...

INVESTOR STRATEGY • Thu, 01 Aug 2019

Where investors are finding cheap mortgages in 2019

Investors and owner-occupiers are both reaping the rewards of rate cuts and changes to mortgage assessments, new data has shown, as interest rates continue to drop.

FINANCE • Sun, 28 Jul 2019

Staggered housing tax reform most effective for investor protection: Academics

Instead of removing negative gearing and reducing capital gains tax discounts outright, a new report has suggested to phase in these reforms over a 10 year time frame to ...

TAX & LEGAL • Fri, 06 Jul 2018

Email scam warning for Vic property buyers

Consumer Affairs Victoria has alerted property buyers of a potential scam that targets property buyers purchasing through agencies, with losses already surpassing ...

INVESTOR STRATEGY • Fri, 16 Feb 2018

Sydney dwelling values fall by 0.7 per cent

With the dwelling value in the NSW capital falling by 0.7 per cent over November, the overall value drop for the quarter has trickled down to 1.3 per cent.

HOTSPOTS • Wed, 06 Dec 2017

Bernard Salt: Sydney prices to ‘subside’, WA market to ‘come back’

Bernard Salt, KPMG special adviser and managing director of The Demographics Group, has claimed that Sydney property prices need to “plateau, or even subside”, otherwise ...

HOTSPOTS • Tue, 14 Nov 2017

Australian housing market is ‘frothy’

A property finance lawyer has said that he does not believe that the Australian housing market is in a “bubble”. Instead, he describes it as “frothy”, comprising lots of ...

HOTSPOTS • Thu, 19 Oct 2017

'No such thing as the Australian housing market', says CBA

The outgoing CEO of CBA has said that there is no such thing as the Australian housing market, that the “vast majority” of borrowers could afford their mortgage ...

HOTSPOTS • Mon, 09 Oct 2017

‘A third of IO borrowers don’t know they have an IO loan’: UBS

Banking analysts at UBS have suggested that a third of borrowers with interest-only loans “do not know or understand that they have taken out an IO mortgage”.

HOTSPOTS • Thu, 05 Oct 2017