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.
Michael Lawrence read icon 2 min read
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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QBE’s CEO Phil White read icon 2 min read
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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Mortgagors move to pay down debt read icon 2 min read
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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Wayne Byres read icon 2 min read
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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Newcastle NSW read icon 3 min read
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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Sean Hughes read icon 2 min read
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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Shane Oliver read icon 1 min read
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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APRA read icon 1 min read
Finance • 12 Sep 2019
APRA reports rise in share of high-LVR mortgages
The overall share of new home loans approved with an LVR of over 80 per cent has increased, according to the latest APRA data.  
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Phil White read icon 1 min read
Finance • 11 Sep 2019
Supply and demand ‘imbalance’ to trigger nationwide price boost
A misalignment of supply and demand is set to spur property price growth of up to 20 per cent in the coming years, according to new research from QBE.
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Tasmania read icon 1 min read
Finance • 11 Sep 2019
Federal government to waive Tasmania’s housing debt
The federal government has agreed to waive Tasmania’s $157.6-million housing debt to address continuing housing affordability issues within the state.
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