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Young & Invested: No end in sight for Australia's housing crisis
Personal Finance
Young & Invested: No end in sight for Australia's housing crisis
Political parties battle the housing crisis as the federal election looms closer. 
Simonelle Mody | 26 February 2025
What rate cuts could mean for your investment property
Personal Finance
What rate cuts could mean for your investment property
Own an investment property or looking to get into the market? Find out how the RBA's interest rate cut could affect you.  
Simonelle Mody | 18 February 2025
Australian stocks will crush housing over the next decade, one year on
Stocks
Australian stocks will crush housing over the next decade, one year on
James Gruber looks back on his forecast for Australian equities and the housing market 
James Gruber | 08 January 2025
How to successfully pick an investment property
Personal Finance
How to successfully pick an investment property
Australia’s top buyers agent lays down her strategy.
Shani Jayamanne | 04 November 2024
What's left unsaid in Australia's housing bubble
Personal Finance
What's left unsaid in Australia's housing bubble
The current difficulties confronting housing policy partially stem from an explosion of mortgage debt. We've engineered a price for housing that will...
John Abernethy | 09 September 2024
Are retirement assumptions about home ownership fundamentally flawed?
Personal Finance
Are retirement assumptions about home ownership fundamentally flawed?
We’ve assumed that people will enter retirement owning their home outright. Given increases in home prices is this a reality anymore?
Mark Lamonica | 03 September 2024
Will house prices crash?
Personal Finance
Will house prices crash?
Absent much higher interest rates and or unemployment, a house price crash in Australia looks unlikely. However, a failure to boost affordability...
Shane Oliver | 02 September 2024
Stop treating the family home as a retirement sacred cow
Personal Finance
Stop treating the family home as a retirement sacred cow
The way home ownership relates to retirement income is rated a 'D', as in Distortion, Decumulation and Denial. For many, their home is their largest...
Susan Thorpe | 17 July 2024
Australian housing is twice as expensive as the US
Personal Finance
Australian housing is twice as expensive as the US
A new report suggests Australian housing is twice as expensive as that of the US and UK on a price-to-income basis. It also reveals that it’s cheaper...
James Gruber | 24 June 2024
Financial pathways to buying a home require planning
Personal Finance
Financial pathways to buying a home require planning
In the six months of my battle with brain cancer, one part of financial markets has fascinated me, and it’s probably not what you think. What's led...
Graham Hand | 22 May 2024