A lending clampdown has slowed Brisbane’s inner-city apartment market pipeline but there was little evidence to back up concerns that buyers would fail to settle, according...
TWO Gold Coast suburbs have been red-flagged as risky areas to buy by one of the nation’s largest banks. National Australia Bank will exercise extreme caution...
The latest ABS housing finance figures show the number of loans to home buyers declined in August 2016, although lending improved modestly towards building purchasing new homes. The...
The prudential regulator is “dialling up” its scrutiny of bank lending to commercial real estate projects, an area that regulators have pinpointed as being the most exposed to a deterioration in...
Wealthy Queensland investor Kevin Seymour will push further into the debt markets with plans to lend “a couple of hundred million” as major banks put the...
A second lender is set to announce that it is cutting back on lending to high-rise and high-density apartments. Firstmac, which has about $8 billion under...
Westpac, the country’s biggest lender to landlords, is lowering the size of the deposits it will require from property investors. The decision partially reverses last year’s crackdown....
In our last update, we talked about increased capital requirements and costs and how this affected the availability and cost of property funding. Since then, a...
With the latest ABS figures for 2015 showing that the number of loans to investors had dropped by 2 per cent nationally, it was easy for...
DEXUS today announced that they have settled with Stockland to acquire Waterfront Place and Eagle Street Pier located within the prime commercial precinct of the Brisbane CBD...
