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Finance • 23 Sep 2019

APRA pushes for ‘more granular’ mortgage reporting

The prudential regulator has launched a consultation on a proposal that would expand its collection remit for home lending data.  

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Finance • 20 Sep 2019

Lender launches 95% LVR loan for FHBs

Better Choice Home Loans has launched a new 95 per cent LVR home loan product, which aims to help more first home buyers enter the property market.

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Finance • 17 Sep 2019

How much has your property fallen in the last quarter?

Residential property prices fell by 0.7 per cent in the June quarter, according to newly released national figures.

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Finance • 17 Sep 2019

Mutual banks’ lending growth outpaces majors

Customer-owned banking institutions wrote $6.6 billion in the 2019 financial year, up 7.8 per cent from the previous year and outpacing growth from the major banks.

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Finance • 17 Sep 2019

The cost of housing in 2022

As Australian house prices stabilise, one capital city has been predicted to outstrip all other markets in value growth over the next three years, with a whopping 20 per...

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Finance • 17 Sep 2019

Mortgagors move to pay down debt

New figures from AMP Bank have shown a “significant uptick” in the number of home loan customers switching from IO to P&I loans ahead of expiry in light of...

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Finance • 16 Sep 2019

APRA leaves door open to new lending curbs

The risks that prompted APRA’s initial crackdown on mortgage lending “have not gone away”, chair Wayne Byres has said, warning against a “resurgence in...

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Finance • 16 Sep 2019

What is the value of your regional property?

The May federal election hurt the property market, with larger regions outside of the Australian capitals having sales volumes fall by nearly 20 per cent.

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Finance • 13 Sep 2019

ASIC bans short-term lending model

The corporate regulator has used its product intervention powers to prohibit a model of short-term lending, which, it has found, causes “significant consumer...

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Finance • 12 Sep 2019

Analysts brush off return to ‘boom time conditions’

The rebound in housing market conditions will be “far more constrained” than recent data has suggested, according to analysts.

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