It seems the central bank is trying to kick start the home loan market, writes Glenn Dyer.
Housing loans
Vintage First Dog – The Fairy Peanut!
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Why a rate rise will only take house prices higher
Interest rate rises are supposed to slow the economy … how then do we explain the surge in house prices in 2007, asks Glen Dyer?
Centro crash: Is this part of the tsunami that Cossie predicted?
What we’ve learned recently is that, yes, it might be wise to have a few sandbags at the ready, Michael Knox, Chief Economist and Director of Strategy at ABN AMRO Morgans, told Crikey:
How many problem home loans are there in Australia?
There is a view that there is some sort of problem with repossessions and foreclosures of homes in Sydney and by extrapolation, the rest of Australia. There isn’t, writes Glenn Dyer.
The housing crisis: look closer at big banks’ lending
One of the rarely mentioned factors when housing affordability is being discussed, is that loans secured by residential mortgages are more attractive to banks than other types of lending because of the regulator’s prudential rules on the capital adequacy of banks, writes Bill Moyle.
