3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (357+ words) This year's Australian Mortgage Awards (AMAs) are fast approaching, and if you haven't locked in your hotel room yet, consider this a friendly warning. The Australian mortgage industry’s biggest night of the year is now less than five weeks away,…...

4+ day, 7+ hour ago   (310+ words) Signs of further interest rate tightening abound. Hauser's comments come as the nation's central bank gears up for its September meeting on monetary policy. The RBA has already raised the official cash rate (OCR) three times so far in 2026, taking…...

4+ day, 7+ hour ago   (391+ words) Australia's housing correction is deepening, and stretched borrowing capacity is doing much of the work in deciding where the pain lands hardest. Tim Lawless (pictured left), Cotality's head of research, Asia Pacific, writing on LinkedIn, said constrained servicing power is…...

5+ day, 6+ hour ago   (323+ words) Six years of positive readings came to an end in August, with Australian business conditions falling into the red for the first time since 2020. Profitability and trading conditions did most of the damage, according to the NAB Monthly Business Survey:…...

5+ day, 6+ hour ago   (327+ words) The total value of Australia's residential dwellings has fallen for the first time in nearly four years, according to new figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. The ABS reported that the value of Australia's dwelling stock dropped $34.1 billion, or…...

5+ day, 6+ hour ago   (409+ words) A new economic outlook from Commonwealth Bank points to one final rate hike this cycle in November, alongside a steeper downgrade to its national home price forecast. The report, which also weighs global growth risks and the Reserve Bank's inflation…...

5+ day, 13+ hour ago   (411+ words) All four of Australia's Big Four banks are now in alignment: They're all expecting interest rates to rise later this year. Westpac is the latest player to shift its outlook, abandoning its call from last month that interest rates would…...

6+ day, 7+ hour ago   (431+ words) More than one in five new homes approved across Australia in the year to June 2026 were built in areas already grappling with high mortgage stress, according to new OurTop10 Pressure Corridors research. Of the 51 council areas analysed, 38 growth-corridor councils recorded mortgage-stress…...

6+ day, 8+ hour ago   (371+ words) Lenders are cutting rates to poach rivals' customers as property values fall, even as fresh signals point to a possible RBA hike this month. Canstar data insights director Sally Tindall (pictured) said the discounting reflects a broader shift in how…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (427+ words) Borrowers weighing up their next move now have a fresh option to consider, with Police Credit Union rolling out a one-year fixed owner-occupier rate of 5.79% p.a. (6.9% p.a. comparison rate) from 1 September — a rate the lender claims is the lowest of its kind…...