Finding the perfect place to live is not that different to finding that special someone to share your life with, when you think about it. Both are incredibly important decisions, guaranteed to get your emotions and expectations running high, and it might feel like you have to go through hundreds of options before you find [...]
Hold onto your hats! The winds of change are coming… If you work, have kids, get sick, drive, or even fish, you could be affected by the changes being brought in on July 1st. Here's the lowdown on what's set to change and the impact it might have on you. MINIMUM WAGE It's good [...]
There's been a lot of talk recently about housing oversupply in some markets leading to a possible price collapse. But now global credit rating firm Fairfax Media has spoken out to say the only thing we really need to worry about with relation to the Australian housing market is unemployment levels. Ratings agency S&P Global [...]
There's a condition sweeping through the nation's workplaces and it's affecting more women than ever before. With such pressure to be successful and get ahead in your career, it's easier than you might think to let work take over your life at the expense of your health. Emma Walker was 28 years old and in [...]
Unless you've been living in a cave with no wi-fi for the last few months, you'll have noticed there's a big political battle going on over housing affordability at the moment. The Labor and Liberal parties are both playing the scare game and attacking each other's policies and claims, with talk of plummeting house prices [...]
Banks keep shifting their lending criteria and it's causing big problems for homebuyers. Some experts want to impose a national star rating system so buyers can stay informed of the banks' risk assessment of each location. There's been a leaked list of “risky postcodes” (scroll down to see the full list), and with Macquarie Bank [...]
Your Facebook friends could be influencing you in ways you never realised. You've probably made a decision about which clothes to buy or which food to eat because of Facebook influence, but now a new study suggests that even the amount we're willing to pay for a house could be linked to what appears in [...]
With the topic of housing hotting up in the lead-up to the election and following the recent budget announcement, there's one question which continues to prove divisive: Is it better to buy or rent? The notion that you must get yourself on the property ladder in order to be considered a proper, successful grown-up is [...]
Believe it or not, there is a certain number that could land you in big trouble in America if you publish it or write it down. In fact, even having it scrawled on the back of a handful of receipts is considered illegal possession. So what is this number? And why is it so heavily [...]
It may seem like our economy is doing well at the moment with interest rates at a record low, but it could just be like a giant game of Jenga that's being built higher and higher and getting increasingly precarious – an eventual collapse is inevitable. When global banks keep cutting interest rates to pull [...]
HOOOOOLLLLLDDDD! Today the Reserve Bank of Australia met and decided to go all Braveheart and hold the official cash rate at the record low of 1.75%. The central bank last moved in May 2016, with a 0.25% cut which was well received by both existing home owners and property investors, as well as those looking [...]
Given the choice of a tiny inner-city apartment or a spacious beachside family home at the same price, which would you choose? With city property prices continuing to rise, many buyers are looking further afield and finding they can get a lot more for their money. One such couple is Brad and Fleur Frost, who [...]
Your twenties can be a pretty exciting decade. You've got the freedom of living away from home, your first proper job, a car, and perhaps other milestones like marriage and kids on the horizon. With more disposable income than you might have had previously, it's tempting to get carried away with your spending – especially [...]
Selling a home is stressful at the best of times. You spend months finding a buyer, negotiating a price, completing all the checks and preparing contracts, and there's just one final step: the buyer needs to have their finance approved. You'd hope it's a done deal by this point – after all, the bank issued [...]
