How the blockchain will transform housing markets
Apr 17, 2017 14:03 pm UTC| Fintech Real Estate
An emerging technology, blockchain, could transform the way we buy and sell real estate by doing away with the hidden costs and inefficiencies of our housing markets. Blockchain is an online ledger that records...
Here's how superannuation is already financing homes
Apr 14, 2017 03:44 am UTC| Insights & Views Investing Real Estate
The federal government is split on whether first home buyers in Australia should be allowed to use part of their superannuation for home deposits. But what the more strident critics miss is that Australias superannuation...
Moody's: Home loan arrears rising in all Australian states
Apr 06, 2017 03:28 am UTC| Research & Analysis Real Estate
Moodys Investors Service says that the proportion of Australian residential mortgages that were more than 30 days in arrears (30+ delinquency rate) rose to 1.52% in November 2016 from 1.20% in November 2015. Moodys...
Home Building Company To Offer Houses With Tesla Power-Set Package
Apr 04, 2017 08:30 am UTC| Technology Real Estate
Tesla has been on a roll recently, with many of its technological products and innovations breaking records, making history, and generally doing what Elon Musk set out to do. In the case of one Australian home building...
What economics has to say about housing bubbles
Apr 03, 2017 01:17 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy Real Estate
The b-word is doing the rounds, barely a decade after the United States house price bubble burst spectacularly, setting in motion a global financial crisis. As Australian real estate prices continue to break records, many...
The forgotten 660,000 locked out of home ownership
Apr 02, 2017 01:49 am UTC| Insights & Views Life Real Estate
Imagine two people in their 30s, Lee and Sarah. Both want to acquire their first home. Theyve saved a deposit of A$70,000 each and want to buy the same type of apartment in the same block. Lee is able to buy off the...
Houses aren't more unaffordable for first home buyers, but they are riskier
Mar 28, 2017 11:16 am UTC| Real Estate Insights & Views
Climbing house prices seem to scare people but houses are relatively more affordable today than they were in 1990, its actually interest-rate risk thats the bigger problem for first home buyers. If you look at latest...
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