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The Reserve Bank of Australia Board meets today to decide the fate of homeowners home loan rates, and whether to raise interest rates, or to leave them alone. Our tip is that homeowners and home buyers are safe. The RBA will not raise the official cash rate till the picture of the Australian and World [...]

As Australia’s house prices soften many would say this represents a great time to buy. That obviously depends on what happens next. Australia home values are down further in 2011, as home buyers wait to see what will happen next with mortgage interest rates and home loan exit fees. If you have to buy now, [...]

RBA ask home buyers & homeowners to carry the “interest rate” can for the economy again. Australian home buyers and mortgagor homeowners might get punished By the Reserve Bank of Australia with higher mortgage repayments for the mining boom, the Queensland floods and Cyclone Yasi. Real economy is going backwards This grim analysis is based [...]

Australian homeowners and renters on hurting over mortgage rates, reduced family support, housing bubble concerns. Maybe we won’t be seeing an interest rate rise in June, even thought its likely and we predicted it last month.

Noosa is finding it hard to sell its prime real estate right now.That’s on par with the rest of Australia. So has Noosa really changed, or have people changed? In 1992 I moved from Adelaide to Eumundi in the Noosa hinterland to enjoy the weather and lifestyle. I rented a new home on 5 acres [...]

Is buying a home really the best investment money can buy, or just an illusion we take as true? Some say that buying a home [either house or unit] is not a financial investment. Others will tell you that a home is the best investment you can make. So, who’s right? If you ask an [...]

The State Government is using scarce land sales to justify land tax hikes for all If you are a homeowner in Brisbane or the Gold Coast you know you have been conned by a cash strapped QLD State Government. Queensland Government land valuation hikes of up to 35 per cent are being issued against a [...]