Mortgage wars: how borrowers are getting a home loan discount without refinancing
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August 14, 2023CoreLogic published a note outlining what we knew about the so-called ‘fixed-rate cliff’ in February this year. It was a...Read More→Melbourne Property Market Update
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July 6, 2023Australian housing values moved through a fourth month of recovery with CoreLogic’s national Home Value Index (HVI) rising 1.1% in...Read More→Melbourne gains a competitive advantage
June 21, 2023Melbourne house values have increased a mere 1.6% between the onset of COVID in March 2020 and the end of...Read More→Is winter the hot time to sell this year?
June 15, 2023Over the first five months of 2023, national property prices increased by 1.5%. Aside from Darwin, all capital cities saw prices...Read More→Federal budget 2023: What it means for the housing market
May 11, 2023ANALYSIS: Amid a national rental crisis, fast recovering population growth, and constrained housing supply, measures to address the housing shortage and...Read More→CoreLogic Home Value Index: Further evidence Australia’s housing downturn is over
May 3, 2023After falling -9.1% between May 2022 and February 2023, Australian housing values look to have bottomed out, posting a second...Read More→Home prices have started rising again. Is it a ‘dead cat bounce’ or has the market bottomed out?
April 28, 2023After near-record rises during the pandemic, home prices in most parts of the country began to fall halfway through last...Read More→With interest rates now reaching their peak – should APRA reduce the serviceability buffer?
March 21, 2023The serviceability buffer is a key regulatory setting that impacts how much Australians can borrow, and therefore what happens to...Read More→