Finance Tips and Insights - Smart Property Investment

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Finance • 12 Aug 2011
RBA, it’s time to cut rates: HIA
The Reserve Bank of Australia should cut interest rates now to avoid confidence and property market activity spiralling any lower, according to the Housing Industry...
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Finance • 12 Aug 2011
Inflation forecasts revised
Interest rates could remain on hold for the foreseeable future if the latest inflation expectations are anything to go by.
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Finance • 11 Aug 2011
Mortgagees find feet in hard market
The percentage of Australian mortgage holders in arrears has fallen in the last month, suggesting borrowers are finally starting to cope with the higher cost of living.
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Finance • 11 Aug 2011
Escalating debt problems encourage RBA pause
Back in May 2011, Reserve Bank Governor Glenn Stevens advised that “rates would need to rise at some point”.
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Finance • 10 Aug 2011
Banks move to cut rates
Just one day after the Commonwealth Bank announced it would cut the interest on some of its fixed rate products, a number of other lenders have decided to jump on the...
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Finance • 09 Aug 2011
CBA slashes fixed rates
The Commonwealth Bank now leads the major banks in fixed rate home loans following a decision to slice up to 60bps off its fixed rate products.
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Finance • 09 Aug 2011
Economist warns RBA: leave rates alone
A series of rate hikes could cause Australian property prices to collapse, AMP’s chief economist Shane Oliver has claimed.
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Finance • 05 Aug 2011
Mortgage demand softens
The threat of further rate hikes has cooled buyer demand.
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Finance • 05 Aug 2011
Rates on hold til 2012
Despite ongoing concern that the RBA will look to raise rates in the near future, one economist believes the Board will now keep the cash rate on hold until 2012.
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Finance • 04 Aug 2011
Mortgage pain worse than during GFC: survey
More than a quarter of Australians will have problems meeting their mortgage repayments over the coming months, new research has revealed.
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