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• Interest Rate Cuts Becoming More Likely in 2015

  December 4, 2014

  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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• Sydney’s Auction Clearance Poor for Third Consecutive Week

  November 25, 2014

  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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• Understanding Capital Improvements Deductions

  November 19, 2014

  When you come across a statistic which claims that $17.5 billion is resting unclaimed in the coffers of the ATO, you begin to ask yourself, “What’s on the investors’ mind?” The fact that our average claim is close to a meagre $3,000 does not help the matters any either. And to think, we fool ourselves…

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• Decoding Housing Trends Of Future

  November 14, 2014

  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

  November 13, 2014

  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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• Will Value Growth Stagnate From Here?

  November 12, 2014

  An article on the website Your Investment Property sheds light on the recent spate of house price growth. The combined capital city values have risen by 1% on last count. The state-by-state trend though suggests something quite different.

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