Properties Management News
To rent or to buy: weighing up the options
CRUNCHING the numbers can produce almost any answer you like, depending on interest rates, house prices and rental costs.
First-home buyers urged to beat rate rise
BANKS are urging first-home buyers to lodge mortgage applications ahead of the next rate rise so they qualify for the biggest possible loans.
Rising prices hit housing affordability
RISING prices are making it harder to buy a home, with the recovery locking many first home buyers out of the market.
Market returns for million-dollar mansions
A YEAR ago, prestige homes in some of the country’s best suburbs were close to unsellable.
Dream downsized as GFC hits beachfront
A MODEST beach shack between lavish mansions could be the shape of things to come.
Estate agents zoom in on a homes boom
PROPERTY is back in fashion after a year of caution, as investors shun the share market.
Where to now for first-time buyers?
NOW some of the grants have been scaled back and mortgage interest rates are on the way up again, what is the future for first-home buyers?
Identity thieves take out mortgages
THERE is an increase in houses being mortgaged without their owners’ knowledge, police say.
