A gold star has been licked by Head of Research and is ready for application to the broad Morrison forehead when he next pays a visit to the Glass Pyramid Turkish Bath complex. […]
Oz Sell-Out Watch: Mr Morrison gets something right!
RBA Watch: We think we broke it! (and negative gearing)
Today David Uren noted the comments made by the Governor of the RBA in New York last week that it was time for governments to do more as monetary policy (cutting interest […]
Baby Watch: Infant landlord class pampered!
Caroline Overington put the Prime Minister over her lap this morning and gave him a good smack for his absurd endorsement of a new class of negatively geared landlords – the infant […]
Malcolm forgets Menzies concept of home.
Sunday was a beautiful day in Sydney and a splendid opportunity for Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Treasurer Mr Scott Morrison to bond with local member Mr David Coleman and explain to a […]
Auction Action: Under pressure but holding the line
Another weekend with less than 500 auctions scheduled in Sydney, but as it is the last weekend of school holidays and a long weekend, ‘seasonal’ excuses are readily available for those who […]
Perth shows the way to “affordable housing”
Perth’s vacancy rate of 4.1% and Darwin’s vacancy rate of 3.6% – with both cities experiencing falling rents for houses and apartments – demonstrate just how important a healthy vacancy rate is to ensure […]
Auction Action: Sydney feeling stress?
Very few things in this wild woolly world upset Sydney folk. From a few weeks from the crib, Sydneysiders are trained to cope with life’s outrages in a calm and measured manner. Children […]
FIRB Crackdown – Has Mr Morrison dozed off?
People are starting to notice that there has not been much news lately on Mr Morrison’s tough guy crackdown on foreigners breaking our new laws on residential property investment. What new laws did you […]
Auction Action: A hint of frost?
Finally the very warm late summer and autumn in Sydney (proudly brought to us by carbon based industrialization) is being softened by a few cooler days. While it is not so […]
Bank Royal Commission: Time for a spotlight on the rotten core.
The announcement by Leader of the Opposition, Mr Bill Shorten that, if elected, his government will establish a Royal Commission into banking has set a cat among the Australian banking pigeons and their […]
Bank Watch: Malcolm needs a bigger bat.
The Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s choice of present for the banking sector at the jolly Bank of New South Wales (Westpac) celebrations may have caused a few canapes to become lodged in […]
APRA Watch: Still making excuses and denying “Debt Bubble” paternity
The head of APRA Mr Wayne Byres has come out and admitted in a response to the ABC that APRA was a bit slow off the mark prior to the GFC and […]
RBA/APRA Watch: The debt regulators under the spotlight
NEWS FLASH: The RBA holds – Target rate remains at 2% Last night the 7.30 report included a story on APRA. Macrobusiness commented on this story with some excellent graphs charting the […]
Auction Action: Sydney ‘hops’ away from Easter
One of the ‘mysteries’ of Easter in Sydney is whether the residential auction market will rise from the depths of chocolate narcosis and again bring joy to the many monitoring and depending on […]
