Finance Tips and Insights - Smart Property Investment

Property investment is often regarded as a game of finance. Here’s how you can best understand the financing options and strategies to suit your portfolio.
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Finance • 15 Mar 2023
Keeping the inflation target between 2–3% is ‘alarming’: Mark Bouris
It’s time to reposition the Reserve Bank of Australia’s (RBA) inflation target, according to the financial and business expert.
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Finance • 07 Mar 2023
Property Finance Uncut: Don’t let RBA’s latest rate hike land you in mortgage prison
Amidst another RBA rate hike in March, Australians are not only facing the looming threat of falling off the mortgage cliff but are also finding themselves trapped in a...
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Finance • 07 Mar 2023
RBA makes March cash rate call
Following February’s decision to enact a ninth consecutive cash rate increase, Australia’s central bank has made its latest monetary policy call.
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Finance • 04 Mar 2023
Latest lending figures paint grim picture for construction
The Australia Bureau of Statistics’ (ABS) January lending figures revealed building approvals dipped to a decade-long low.
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Finance • 04 Mar 2023
Rising rates ‘crippling’ lending to investors, expert says
An expert warned that the rental crisis affecting the country is set to “get even worse”, as the Reserve Bank’s rapid rate rise cycle continues to have a...
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Finance • 04 Mar 2023
Older Australians to ‘downsize sooner’: CEO
Worsening financial conditions will motivate elderly home owners to downsize sooner than expected, according to a non-bank lender.
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Finance • 04 Mar 2023
Fears further rate rises could grind Australia’s economy to a halt
An industry heavyweight has urged the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) to hit the cash rate brakes ahead of its second monthly board meeting.
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Finance • 01 Mar 2023
Borrowers’ hands tied by APRA’s serviceability buffer
Keeping the interest rate buffer at 3 per cent presents a major “roadblock” to both new and existing borrowers, according to Canstar.
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Finance • 28 Feb 2023
Will you fall off the fixed rate ‘cliff’? Here’s 5 things to know
For many home owners, the looming fixed rate cliff presents itself as one of the greatest challenges for the year ahead.
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Finance • 23 Feb 2023
How to tackle the looming ‘fixed-rate cliff’
Hundreds of thousands of borrowers with fixed-rate mortgages face a bumpy road ahead this year as record-low fixed-rate loans expire and higher “revert” rates hit.
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