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Hotspots • 26 NOV 2015

Travel through time to test your market knowledge!

How does the current property market compare with the state of the market a decade or two ago? Let's go back in time to test your market knowledge in this week's quiz!

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Hotspots • 26 NOV 2015

Housing market a “classic Ponzi scheme”

A new report has depicted Australian real estate as being significantly overvalued, warning baby boomers against putting up the family home as security for their...

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Hotspots • 26 NOV 2015

Foreign cash fuelling apartment ‘bubble’

A major bank has labelled Melbourne’s inner-city apartment market a “bubble” that is being partly inflated by cashed-up foreign buyers.

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Hotspots • 25 NOV 2015

Depressed markets set to turn

Two previously depressed markets are being touted as the growth locations to target in 2016 – but what do investors need to watch out for?

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Finance • 25 NOV 2015

Bank to issue $80m customer refund

A major bank will refund around 216,000 customers as compensation for failing to apply fee waivers, interest concessions and other benefits since 2008.

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Hotspots • 24 NOV 2015

Brisbane’s big noise

A new study has assessed the impact of aircraft noise on home values, as property owners in Brisbane’s blue-chip suburbs brace for a future increase in air traffic.

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Hotspots • 24 NOV 2015

Values up, sales down

Another round of auction figures has painted a picture of massive year-on-year value gains, but fewer home buyers and investors are managing to capitalise on...

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Hotspots • 23 NOV 2015

Buyers turn away from major market

House hunters have dramatically lost patience with Australia’s largest housing market, but have embraced one of its neighbours in droves.

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Finance • 23 NOV 2015

Investors slapped with increased rates

Investors and homeowners alike are going to be feeling a little worse off this week, following the introduction of a new round of rate hikes – but is there anything...

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Hotspots • 20 NOV 2015

Investors forced to abandon purchases

There’s been plenty of speculation that off-the-plan investors would eventually be hit the hardest by APRA’s lending changes – now evidence has emerged that they...

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