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The New RBA 1.5% Rate: What This means for Australian Property Investors As I speculated last Monday, the June quarter CPI report gave the Governor enough ammunition to act. The Reserve Bank said a rate cut will create “room for even stronger growth” as the inflation rate is set to remain below its target range [...]
Negative Gearing - Should it Be Abolished? SHOULD NEGATIVE GEARING BE ABOLISHED? by Dr Andrew Unterweger | 5th May 2016 With the release of the Australian Budget earlier this week, we have seen much of the negative gearing discussion put to bed…for now. Should negative gearing be abolished? Should it be changed and only allowed [...]
The Negative Gearing Debate and the Pre-Budget News We have come to the annual pre-budget season once again where the usual rhetoric in relation to the removal of Negative Gearing and other unpopular outcomes make their way out of the closet to give the media some new doom and gloom scenarios to throw at us. [...]
2016 Investment Outlook and Australia's property market implications I would like to wish everyone a wonderful 2016 and every success in navigating what should be another challenging year ahead in terms of making some prudent investment decisions given the somewhat uncertain global macro-economic backdrop that we are faced with. If I look at the newsletter [...]
The New Normal - is this another illusion? I thought it would be relevant to share my thoughts about this concept that I keep hearing over and over from Fund Managers ( especially in the Fixed Income markets ) that we have entered a “New Age” of lower rates for longer. My experience in the [...]
January Property Snapshot - Median Values and Growth rates We are constantly being bombarded by a huge number of often quite contradictory news items and predictions and forecasts from a plethora of experts in economic, property and investment professions. I want to share a few just to highlight how difficult it is to try to [...]
2014 Federal Budget - Short Term Positive but negative in the Medium Term This has been a topic for speculation for some weeks which finally ended on Tuesday night, thankfully !! I would like to point out that these are proposed changes which need to be passed in parliament to become effective, and we have [...]
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