House prices would fall about 2 per cent if Labor went ahead with its previous election policy to change property tax breaks, modelling from the Grattan Institute shows. Brendan Coates says changes to negative gearing and the capital gains tax discount could save the federal budget billions of dollars annually. A University of Melbourne study by academics Yunho Cho, Shuyun …
When single mum Kerrie Boylett wanted to buy a home in 1995, almost all lenders turned her away. "The big obstacle faced by previous generations of first home buyers, especially in the late 1980s, was the high interest rates — I wonder how they were able to afford them," he says. Why millennials will take longer to pay off a …
The Reserve Bank of Australia keeps making the wrong decisions because 'part-time amateurs' are making calls on interest rates, a former bank insider says. The Reserve Bank of Australia keeps making wrong decisions because 'part-time amateurs' are making calls on interest rates, a former insider says Peter Tulip, who was the RBA's senior research manager from 2011 to 2020, said …
