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Building approvals for houses have surged over the past year fuelled by the Federal Government’s HomeBuilder initiative. 136,107 private sector approvals were reported by the ABS over the year ending April 2021 – an increase of 31.1% on the previous year. Total residential new building approvals – inclusive of houses, units, and townhouses, were however…

Jobs swoosh higher Skilled vacancies rose again in May, according to the Department of Employment’s labour market information portal, up by 1.9 per cent over the month to a thumping 245,500. From a year earlier, advertisements are up by a massive 164 per cent. There have been some huge year-on-year increases of more than 200…

As the first wave of COVID reality bit the property market and resulted in a hard stall on activity, governments scrambled to get the engine room of the economy purring again via schemes and incentives. Property has long been recognised as a financial juggernaut, with stamp duty and other taxes filling government coffers and providing…

High price growth often motivates investors to buy properties in the expectation that the growth will continue or even escalate, so are investors about to jump on board and turn this boom into a price bubble? Although the number of investors in the property market is growing, the percentage of investors buying property is around…

The ATO recently revealed the top 10 highest paying jobs in the country as well as how much “ordinary” Australians are earning. Interestingly the medical profession took out the top three spots. Surgeons earned an average of over $394,000 a year, followed by anesthetists bringing in $386,000 a year and internal medicine specialists earning $…

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