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There are more and more lenders offering home loan rates under 2%. At the end of June this year, homelands started appearing below 2%. Just on two months later and more lenders are providing rates at this: 8 lenders are offering owner-occupier rates below 2% 81 lenders are offering owner-occupier rates below 2.5%...

If you had any doubts about there being a demand for Australian goods during and after this pandemic, they were put to bed with this months report that Australia reported a record trade surplus in the 12 months ending in June due to surging exports to China, which comprise almost half of goods exports despite rising...

Home Loan rates are still dropping to record levels. This will make it easier for people to pay down their home loan debt quicker. These are some of the rates Property Club members are getting - if you would like to see if you can access these rates, hit enquiries@propertyclub.com.au for this and get the benefits...

Interesting news through from realestate.com.au showing that the government’s new homebuyer grant has triggered a land rush with demand for vacant residential property surging in the last two months. Emails to real estate agents inquiring about land sales soared by nearly 60 per cent in June after the HomeBuilder...

Thanks to the good folk at Australia's most visited comparison site finder.com.au - new research has shown that more Australians than ever refinanced their home loan in May. Finder analysis of the latest ABS lending data (released 9 July) revealed that both the total number and value of refinanced home loans peaked in...

Yes, it’s that time of year again! With all of the other challenges, we have had in 2020, this tax time has no doubt snuck up on all of us. Restrictions associated with coronavirus have meant many changes to most of our working lives. Dining room tables have become working desks and video conferences have become...

The futures market is solid on the fact that interest rates aren’t likely to climb anytime soon. The above shows that rates have absolutely no chance of rising for a long period of time. Do you know that for all of the upsetness that people have had over the years with interest rate rises that in the last 30 years we...

Well, not a week goes by these days without more positives coming out about the activity in our property markets. Realestate.com.au reported that search volumes are now up 47.3 per cent relative to a year ago and have increased by a total of 73.4 per cent over past 12 week period. All states and territories have...

Some great positives through this week from Queensland that the world's largest E-tailer Amazon Australia is building a multi-million dollar fulfilment centre in Brisbane that is set to begin operating by Christmas. The company announced the operational expansion saying that the new facility will be located at...

Cameron Kusher from the REA Group (realestate.com.au) published an intriguing article this week, looking at REA’s Weekly Demand Index. This is a weekly index that looks at the volume of high-intent buyer activity on the realestate.com.au website and app and tracks that activity over time. The latest data shows that...

More good positives through from ANZ-Roy Morgan Australian, showing that the Consumer Confidence gains for the 9th week in a row, with the 'current economic conditions' sub-index up 15.7%. Interesting to see this information from CoreLogic/RP Data that house prices have dropped at this point by just 0.5% across all...

When would you buy? A? You can see there are big UP’S off these lows and that's exactly where we are now.    The big question, as usual, is not all properties go up together in the one cycle across the country. Even in areas where it's coming off a base in that city, not all properties in that city will go up...