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  • Interest Rate Cuts Becoming More Likely in 2015

    Westpac expects interest rate to come down in 2015. This is a bipolar change from what they had previously anticipated for 2015, reports Simon Frazer for the website abc.net.au. Experts feel that GDP is the main reason why rates can only fall from here on and that too in a very short time from now.…

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  • Dealing with Damaged Fences

    Damian Collins writes a piece about damaged fences in an article for the website Property Update. The article takes us inside what we need to know about damaged fences as property investors. What happens if owners on both sides of the fence have disagreements? Who can be held responsible for the damage? What financial shape…

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  • Sydney’s Auction Clearance Poor for Third Consecutive Week

    If the Sydney auction clearance rate is any reflection of the property market on the whole, its third consecutive poor week suggests that the growth rate, in sync with the expert opinion, might just begin to mellow down from here.

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  • Change in Lending Rules Not Needed For Now

    In an article for the website The Adviser, Nick Bendel talks about mortgage broker heads going ballistic over the proposed introduction of the new lending rules. The Reserve bank of Australia feels that the property boom in Sydney and Melbourne warrants a change in lending rules.

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  • Decoding Housing Trends Of Future

    Pete Wargent, in his inimitable style, produces another thought-provoking piece for the website Property Update. In this article he talks about 4 housing trends which may establish themselves till 2020; few of them easy to soak in while a couple more peculiar than others.

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  • Real Value Growth is Far Different From Nominal One

    In an article for the website Property Update, Cameron Kusher writes that in purely ‘nominal’ terms, home values have risen by 9.3% leading up to September 2014. In ‘real’, inflation-adjusted terms, this growth has been 6.8%. Inflation is quite an integral part of the discussion. Let us find out a little about this significant aspect.

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