During the week the International Monetary Fund joined the ranks of commentators concerned about housing property price booms resulting from easy credit and low interest rates. The IMF'...
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Daryl Dixon, 22 September 2013, The Canberra Times
Continuing high rates of clearance at recent auctions and many sales at prices considerably above vendors' reserves indicate lower interest rates are contributing to a boom in property...
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Daryl Dixon, 18 August 2013, The Canberra Times
Self-managed super funds have pumped about $73 billion into residential and commercial property markets, with investment in commercial property increasing 83 per cent since June 2008...
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8 August 2013, The Australian (subscription required)
This week, many geared investors will be finalising their end-of-tax-year strategies to fix and prepay the interest on their loans for the next 12 months. There are two possible benefits...
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Daryl Dixon, 23 June 2013, The Canberra Times
Charles Gave, of GaveKel Research in Hong Kong, wrote in a note last week that roughly a quarter of the world's financial assets are in equities and three-quarters are in debt. Out of...
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Max Walsh, 28 February 2013, The Australian Financial Review