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How A 0.5-point Increase In Interest Rates Affects Your Borrowing Power
Rising interest rates affect more than just monthly repayments and the total cost of a home loan. They also reduce the borrowing power of anyone looking for a home loan. The effect is more pronounced than you might think due to serviceability buffers. A serviceability buffer...
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How Rising Interest Rates Affect Your Borrowing Power
After months of growth, Australia’s property prices have started to fall. Unfortunately, it’s not necessarily a time to celebrate. The cost of living is rising – making it harder to save for a deposit – and interest rates are as well, so your borrowing power is probably...
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High Interest Rates, Inflation, Financial Hardship: Here’s How You Can Prepare
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has begun raising its cash rate target, after more than a decade of low and falling cash rates. And the central bank anticipates several more rate hikes over the next two years. RBA Governor Philip Lowe says Australia’s cash rate will...
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Home Values Drop For The First Time Since September 2020
CoreLogic’s Home Value Index for May 2022 recorded its first national monthly decline since September 2020. National home values fell 0.1%. Sydney and Melbourne recorded falls of 1% and 0.7%, respectively. Canberra experienced its first monthly decline (-0.1%) since July...
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ANZ: Housing Affordability Will Decline
The findings from the latest ANZ CoreLogic Housing Affordability Report found a deterioration in housing affordability due to rapid increases in house prices and rental costs. The report analysed housing affordability in the March 2022 quarter based on four metrics: Dwelling...
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Sydney & Melbourne Drag Down Housing Market
CoreLogic’s data revealed the home value index for April 2022 showed national growth of 0.6%. This is the lowest reading since October 2020. Sydney and Melbourne are the two cities with the heaviest weighting in the home value index. Sydney was down 0.2% for the third...
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RBA Increases Cash Rate To 0.35%
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) increased the cash rate by 0.25 percentage points; taking the historically low cash rate to 0.35%. An increase in the cash rate causes the interest rates on variable-rate mortgages to go up as well, as most lenders, including major...
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Flood Relief Packages For 2022 | What Support Is Available?
The major banks in Australia have announced their financial relief packages for customers affected by significant flooding across southeast Queensland and parts of northern New South Wales. The following services are now available to customers whose finances the current floods...
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2022 RBA Interest Rate Forecast: Bad News For The Property Market?
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) is finally considering hiking its cash rate, for the first time in more than a decade. The RBA has pushed its cash rate to record lows since 2011. When COVID-19 hit Australia in 2020, the central bank set its interest rate at 0.1 per cent,...
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Regions, Smaller Capitals Surge As Sydney And Melbourne Slow
CoreLogic data revealed that the home value index was up 0.7% in March 2022. During the first quarter of this calendar year, dwelling prices in Australia rose 2.4%, adding about $17,000 to the value of a home. Within these national numbers, there was a notable split between the...
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