Interest-rate rises are coming: is it time to fix your home loan?
Sydney Morning Herald » Money
by Jessica Irvine
2y ago
When official interest rates rise – as most economists expect to happen on the first Tuesday in June – about a million borrowers who have taken out mortgages over the past decade, will never have felt the pinch of a rate hike ..read more
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Houses still in high demand, apartment prices lag
Sydney Morning Herald » Money
by John Collett
2y ago
A widening price gap between house and unit prices is a longer-term trend driven by land scarcity in our biggest cities, with the difference tending to be widest between houses and high-rise apartments ..read more
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Collecting 1970s tapestries and rugs – a revival of the crafts
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2y ago
Tactile tapestries and rugs now command substantial prices, as people rediscover colourful interiors produced in the late 1960s and ’70s ..read more
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Is CGT payable on cost of land used for rental property?
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2y ago
The amount of taxable capital gain is calculated proportionally the time the land was income-producing ..read more
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Savers, don’t hold your breath for big rate rises from your bank
Sydney Morning Herald » Money
by Clancy Yeates
2y ago
The dilemma facing Australia’s long-suffering cohort of savers is unlikely to be resolved by looming increases in official interest rates ..read more
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The premium suburbs now in reach of first home buyers
Sydney Morning Herald » Money
by John Collett
2y ago
First home buyers will have many more options, including previously scarce free-standing houses, when the purchase price caps for the government’s low-deposit scheme increase on July 1 ..read more
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Inflation surge to crimp super fund returns
Sydney Morning Herald » Money
by John Collett
2y ago
With just over two months before the end of the financial year, it is hard to see how super fund returns for 2021-22 will achieve more than 5 per cent ..read more
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Investors chasing high returns in themed ETFs should be careful
Sydney Morning Herald » Money
by John Collett
2y ago
Themed exchange-traded funds are being launched that can be more volatile than those that simply tracked the returns of broad markets ..read more
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Why negative gearing has gone the way of the dinosaur
Sydney Morning Herald » Money
by Noel Whittaker
2y ago
With record-low interest rates and reasonably high property investment yields, negative gearing is all but impossible ..read more
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Research report nails message – SMSFs need to further diversify
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2y ago
Many SMSF trustees choose to ignore the basic investment guideline of diversification, with their portfolios too heavily weighted towards one or two asset classes.  ..read more
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