The freshly listed housing stock is starting to lift as the spring selling season begins to heat up. Every Australian capital city has seen a lift in the number of new real estate listings over recent weeks, with some of the largest listing increases recorded in those capitals navigating lockdown. Despite this, the new listings…
Half of Australia is planning on saving their tax return while the government desperately wants them to blow it. Australia’s economic recovery is partly reliant on a prolonged spending spree but according to new research by Finder, Australians aren’t in the mood for splurging this tax season. The end of the financial year is almost…
When the market is getting hot, as it is now in Sydney and Melbourne, a sense of frenetic urgency creeps in. House hunting on weekends turns into a blood sport and for many, it becomes a desperate time. When you finally find a property that you can see yourself in for years to come, the…
At some stage in our lives most of us will experience the various highs and lows that go hand in hand with homeownership. Undeniably today the biggest pressure associated with realising the dream of having a place to call our own, is keeping up with the mortgage repayments. For those who buy their home with…
How wealthy are you? I guess that depends upon how you define wealth. In today’s podcast, I chat with demographer and social commentator Mark McCrindle about wealth distribution in Australia. We talk about what’s happened to the wealth gap between the rich and the average Australian, and we answer the question “are we better off…
While the experience of COVID-19 has been unique to the individual, many Australians have struggled with losing their job, working reduced hours or working from home. As such, COVID-19 has posed a significant financial challenge for many Australians. According to our third phase of research exploring the impacts of COVID-19, despite the challenges presented this…
We knew it, but now it’s official, Australia’s economy rebounded strongly in the September quarter. Australia is out of it’s “technical recession” after posting a 3.3 per cent jump in September quarter GDP – the biggest in more than 44 years – clawing back almost half of the 7 per cent collapse in the June…
Don’t fear the financial cliff. We were initially told that Australia’s economy is heading for a financial cliff when government subsidies were to be cut back from September. Remember…home loan repayment holidays were also set to stop in September but then the banks have extended them to March for customers still suffering a cash crunch….
Apparently only half of Australians who find themselves buried under out of control credit card debt would be able to dig themselves out. A recent Finder survey of 825 credit card holders revealed where Aussies would turn if they couldn’t make the minimum repayment on their card. The research found that just half (51%) of…
The Australian government’s response to the coronavirus crisis is to be, on the whole, applauded. They quickly prioritised the health of our nation and prevented the spread of the early outbreak. Terms such as ‘flatten the curve’ and ‘social distancing’ – phrases that barely existed just months prior – became part of the national vernacular….