One of the major impacts of the COVID-19 recession has been that people have been extremely restricted in the ways they can spend their money. Shutdowns have restricted individuals’ ability to eat out and go to sporting events while closed domestic and international borders have reduced people’s ability to travel – a luxury that many […]
Finding a home to call your own – and actually finding a way to pay for it – brings unmatched levels of excitement. We call it the ‘first-home buyer buzz’. The flip side of the first-home buyer buzz is that it can encourage a little forgetfulness when it comes to the more mundane and tedious […]
Property investor activity in the Australian housing market has been falling since early 2015, after macro-prudential policies were implemented in Australian mortgage lending. Apart from a brief ‘bounce’ in 2016, investor participation has been consistently trending lower. The decline of the property investor has been brought about by multiple factors. These include: temporary policies implemented […]
