Low interest rates, falling prices and less smashed avo on toast have mixed a prime purchasing cocktail for Brisbane’s first-home buyers who are now taking less...
Moody’s says Australia’s economic strength will continue to underpin the AAA rating, notwithstanding the deep economic shock caused by the coronavirus crisis. Australia is one of...
Cuts to interest rates will "throw fuel on an already raging inferno" that is Australia’s housing market – leading to fears of an inevitable crash. Australia’s...
The spectre of the coronavirus outbreak loomed large over the Reserve Bank’s meeting on Tuesday, with the board cutting the cash rate by 25 basis points...
Australia’s largest bank, CBA, has today cut fixed rate home loans by up to 0.50 per cent. Commonwealth Bank has slashed all its investment fixed rates,...
Westpac has made interest rate cuts of between 0.19% and 0.50% to its package fixed rate investment loans across all terms for both interest only and...
ABS data on new housing credit shows a rise in the value of home loan commitments, driven by owner-occupier lending. Since bottoming out in May, the...
Westpac is raising the maximum loan-to-valuation ratio (LVR) for interest-only loans to property investors to 90 per cent, from 80 per cent. This move will allow...
The Reserve Bank is poised to take official interest rates below 1 per cent even as evidence grows its previous rate cuts have supercharged the Sydney...
Banking regulators may have to tighten lending standards sooner than expected amid fresh signs the Reserve Bank of Australia’s back-to-back interest rate cuts have enticed investors...
