. Australian Finance Group (AFG), Australia's largest mortgage broker, says two in five new home loans in March were processed for investors.......
. Home prices have surged in March which is a sign that the boom in the property market is continuing. Prices surged by 2.3% last month over Australia's eight capital cities to take the total growth for the first quarter to 3.......
. Building is expected to start in 2015 on the Commonwealth Games Village on the Gold Coast and it will be a highly sought address after the Games, Queensland's premier says.......
. Two Brisbane-based start-ups took first and second prize at the recent Oz-APP awards, among 200 other entries which came from the Asia Pacific region.......
. The ANZ has predicted that Asia's financial system will be larger than the US and Europe combined by 2030 due to the liberalisation of China's financial system which will unleash a flood of capital into global bond and equity markets.......
. While Brisbane values have been soft for some time, the city is tipped to be ahead of the pack in 2014, according to the National Australia Bank residential property survey. The NAB survey predicts an increase in house values of 6.......
. Recently the major banks have reduced their fixed rates, including National Australia Bank and St George who last week announcing cuts.......
. . "First comes the price rises, and then the exodus" is what demographer Bernard Salt from KPMG is expecting to see.......
. . Goldman Sachs has lowered its Australian dollar forecast for the next 12 months to US80 as it tips a decline in the terms of trade, less supportive capital flows, concerns about Chinese financial conditions and a further cut in interest rates.......
. According to the Housing Industry Association's (HIA) the national outlook is set to improve right across the housing industry and is expected to continue throughout 2014.......
